Deadline

1980
R
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

A popular horror writer whose family life is falling apart struggles to write his next horror movie.A popular horror writer whose family life is falling apart struggles to write his next horror movie.A popular horror writer whose family life is falling apart struggles to write his next horror movie.

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

874

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Shot in 1979, but not released until five years after it was made.

Connections
Referenced in The Big Box: The Body Shop (2010)

Soundtracks
Roll Me Away
Performed by Dwayne Ford

User reviews23

Featured review

Attention-grabbing departure from reality.

This overlooked analysis of a man spiraling into madness is surprisingly brainy, and skillfully realized on meager rations.

A horror novelist's dark fantasy world collides with his personal reality, causing a landslide of hallucinatory dementia within both his family life and his his professional endeavors. A very ominous and disorienting Canadian-made nightmare oozing with abstract, disturbing imagery, DEADLINE also benefits from able performers and edgy directorial flourishes. These refinements, conjoint with a conceptually alluring premise, catapult this film above and beyond most horror menu side-orders. As an extra bonus, the legendary new-wave band ROUGH TRADE makes a welcome appearance, just as they were charting with the single HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL.

7/10...definitely worthy of a rental, if not a purchase.