Dead End (DVD)

Dead End Release Date: 2003 Certificate 15 Approx Running Time: 85 mins Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea Frank Harrington (Ray Wise) and his family are driving to his Mother-In-Laws house, to celebrate Christmas. In the car with him are his wife Laura (Lin Shaye), his daughter Marion (Alexandra Holden), his son Richard (Mick Cain) and Marion's boyfriend Brad (Billy Asher). The trip isn't very pleasant for Frank with an uneasy atmosphere between Marion and Brad, who aren't speaking to each other, his wife constantly nagging him about anything and everything, and his son doing his very best to annoy and wind everybody up, especially Brad, who ...  Read the complete review

Dead End (2003) It's Christmas Eve and the Harringtons are going to visit relatives in the country. It's an annual do, and Frank (the father) always insists on driving. Although this year he's having a little trouble staying awake in the evening, and takes a different route off the highway to keep his mind stimulated. His wife, Laura, children Richard and Marion, and Marion's boyfriend are all asleep. They wake with a fright when Frank dozes off at the wheel, having a near miss with an oncoming car. Regardless he still insists on driving on. After some understandable criticism everything calms down, until they happen upon a lady dressed in white, ...  Read the complete review

A friend of mine who, like me, tends to watch a lot of films recommended this film to me. Some of his recommendations have been a little suspect in the past but generally they are sound. When he mentioned this film to me one Friday night I made a mental note to rent it next time I was in the video shop. A couple of weeks later I was wandering aimlessly around the video store searching for something different to watch when I noticed this film there. Remembering my friend’s recommendation I decided to give it a try. After all, how bad can it be? ** Storyline ** The story in set on Christmas Eve as Frank and his family travel to the mother in laws for ...  Read the complete review

This is a very recommendable B movie horror if you ask me. The unknown cast copes well enough, the story is different, the scares are pretty eerie, and there is also some good old family feuding thrown in for fun! Plot- The Harrington family are travelling to the house of a relative on Christmas eve when the father falls asleep at the wheel. What seems like a harmless mistake unravels into a series of terrifying ordeals throughout the night which will test the family's strength as individuals and their strength as a group. The acting throughout is mainstream to be honest, but from an unheard of cast, it is good enough to carry the film. Ray ...  Read the complete review

Every year for the last 20 years Frank Harrington takes his family on a trip to see their inlaws for christmas, he does this however much against his wishes as he would rather be at home. This year through boredom mainly he decides to try a shortcut way of the beaten track they usualy travel every other year, this turns out to be the biggest mistake of Franks life. After driving for some time down this road Franks wife begins to realise that they are passing the same point and the same road signs time after time althought they havent turned but have been driving a straight line. shortly after finally agreeing with his wife they pass a woman ...  Read the complete review