Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Excellent but underrated film

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

DEADLINE is a depressing film, purely because it's so very predictable. It's a low budget haunted house shocker, starring Brittany Murphy in one of her final roles before her death from a drug overdose. It's pretty sad that her legacy includes roles in trash like this.Put simply, DEADLINE is a bore. It's about a writer who moves into a creepy old house (yawn) only to discover a box of video camera tapes in the basement. Big surprise there! This then gives the film the excuse to play out a back story involving separate characters in conjunction with the current plot. Sadly, they don't utilise found footage this time around, which might have made things a little more interesting.The Thora Birch story is more interesting than the present-day stuff with Murphy, insofar as they could have done away with Murphy altogether and the film would probably have been better. Unfortunately, even with the dual plots, the material is stretched out to breaking point, very little happens during the entire running time and it's all very slow and boring.Given that there are only four or so actors in the film, a lot is put on their shoulders, but none of them are very good. Murphy has the same expression from start to finish, and Birch barely registers. The male actors are even worse, coming across as laughable. All in all, this is another forgettable ghost story.

Oh, man...lately I've noticed that a lot of movies I like have gotten really bad reviews on IMDb.com. Like the remake of The Hitcher. Why all the bad reviews? I LOVED that movie! Sean Bean's take on John Ryder was unique and awesome! Also, a lot of people on IMDb.com hated Punisher: War Zone, while I happen to think it's one of the coolest movies of all time (I wrote a review on it, too:)) My point: I came to the conclusion that I can't rely on other IMDb.com users to dictate for me whether or not to rent a movie. Everyone has different tastes, and what may be passion for me might be another man's poison. Plus, I really wanted to see one of Brittany Murphy's movies that was put out post-mortem, so despite all the bad reviews on IMDb.com on this, I decided to entice my curiosity. Man, I should have listened. Such a shame. Such a shame and a pity that such a talented actress' life and career ended on this sour note. The movie made no sense at all, the script was completely disjointed, and I'm not kidding you, I literally started falling asleep as I just now finished watching it. If I can keep ONE person from watching this movie and wasting an hour-and-a-half of his/her life, my mission in this review is complete. I don't know how good her other movies post-mortem were, but this is just a tragedy. Now if you want to watch a GREAT Brittany Murphy movie, pick up Don't Say A Word. That movie REALLY showcases her talent. Sadly, the drugs really did a number on her later in her life. Her acting is horrible in this movie...and I'm saying that about someone who was a REALLY talented actress! Seriously, I wouldn't be writing this if it weren't horrible, and it was. Please don't waste an hour-and-a-half of your life watching this. It was that bad.

Damn, this is a bad film! Brittany Murphy, looking sickly and unwell plays a young writer recovering from a bad relationship who takes refuge in a rambling old house full of low-wattage light bulbs. I'm not sure whether Murphy was made up to look unwell or whether she really was that ill by then, but her appearance is by far one of the more unsettling features of this slow and incredibly dull movie that barely qualifies as a horror. Considering hardly anything happens in the film it's surprising how confusing it all is. Only by checking out this site's message boards did I get an insight into what was actually going on. I appreciate a movie that exercises the brain cells as much as the next man, but writer/director Sean McConville's methods are just a little too obscure for my taste. The film has two redeeming features, both of which at least allow the film to create a reasonably creepy atmosphere: Ross Robinson's spooky cinematography and Carlo Jose Alvarez's brooding score.

Some-one has written a review for "Deadline", taking the time to explain point-for-point the erm, plot line of this movie as well as calling people stupid for not understanding it. Well, this movie was made for people like him. Pseudo-intellectuals who are of the opinion that the more obscure a movie is, how inexplicable it is somehow defines how GOOD it is. They are so wrong. " Deadline" is just a very badly written, badly directed and very badly acted movie. It's implausibilities are stretched even by horror movie standards. The scary scenes are clichéd and the dialogue is stilted. This is one to avoid.