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Dead End

Dead End

2003
Comedy, Suspense/Thriller
1h 25m
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life. (imdb)
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Dead End

2003
Comedy, Suspense/Thriller
1h 25m
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
90
95th
Super:)
Rated 08 Feb 2008
60
5th
Another one of those post-Sixth Sense (maybe it's not...I don't care enough to look it up) "thrillers" that exists ONLY to show off the shocking "twist" that the writer came up with. I imagine these guys come up with the twist first and write the movies second. It shows.
Rated 03 Jan 2009
80
86th
What makes this horror-comedy so incredibly scary, on top of the well created atmosphere, is the balance between terror and tounge-in-cheek. To wit, Lin Shaye at one point places a shotgun in her mouth, seemingly about to blow her own head off, only to announce presently that she was just kidding around. At other times horrific events ensue and this uncertainty proves disturbingly effective.
Rated 04 Dec 2023
65
48th
The real dead end is trying to take a path towards hating Ray Wise. This is pretty much just him in a car dealing with family and creep store supernatural entities and that's exactly how I'd sell it and why I'd recommend it.
Rated 01 Mar 2008
80
80th
Cool movie with a great Ray Wise.
Rated 31 May 2009
77
76th
Horror, thriller i szczypta czarnej komedii. Wynik jest lepszy niz przypuszczalem, to naprawde bardzo dobry film, zarowno od strony ciekawego scenariusza, az po dobre dialogi i dosc realistyczne zachowania postaci (a przynajmniej nie ma takich bezsensow jak w wielu innych horrorkach). Bawilem sie znakomicie, ten film i trzyma w napieciu i chwilami wywoluje usmieszek na twarzy. Polecam.
Rated 13 Jan 2011
90
90th
Great small film! Should become a cult film!
Rated 10 Jul 2011
4
51st
Lame.
Rated 20 Jul 2011
9
1st
A painful, contrived mess. On every level!
Rated 14 May 2018
30
18th
Super low budget movie that is all atmosphere and almost no substance. Horror without gore. Some dark comedy mixed with lots of pointless scenes and poor acting. Its basically a waking nightmare.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
62nd
Good film.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
51st
hahaha
Rated 25 Jun 2008
81
91st
nice movie
Rated 13 Jul 2008
60
34th
The acting was terrible. But some spooky parts.
Rated 24 Jun 2010
76
62nd
A painfully predictable ending doesn't ruin a decent film
Rated 25 Aug 2010
78
62nd
Hilarious.
Rated 16 Nov 2010
45
24th
Campy and fun, was roaring with laughter at a few parts but all in all, it's not very good.
Rated 11 Jan 2012
44
48th
Drifts somewhere in between comedy and horror, never really reaching either genre, and ultimately sputtering out at then end when we're force fed an 'explain all' scene. There were a few good laughs, and it's hard to hate Ray Wise...but yeah. There are a lot better movies out there employing 'Dead' in their title.
Rated 22 Jan 2012
59
38th
This was surprisingly not terrible. Has a nice blend of genres and the characters aren't completely detestable and has some creepy moments.
Rated 10 Apr 2012
77
59th
76.500
Rated 08 Jan 2013
79
65th
cok iyi gerilim
Rated 12 May 2013
76
59th
I've never been so scared by potato chips. And I've never seen.. this kind of cerebral stimulation (?) if you know what i mean, before. And cheerleading squad, and shotgun joke, and drawing and waving. Such fun!
Rated 08 Jan 2014
70
53rd
Underapreciated and highly enjoyable dark comedy.
Rated 20 Apr 2014
72
43rd
71.500
Rated 11 May 2016
5
2nd
The desperation of this movie to be mocking and funny is incidentally also the only thing about it that's scary. It's a trainwreck, so much more awful than the sum of its parts.
Rated 23 Oct 2016
10
56th
Simple plot. Take a shortcut at night, freaky shit happens. its not much more than that, but it is SO much more than that. Simple and effective. Highly underrated, give it a watch, its great.
Rated 25 Dec 2020
29
13th
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Rated 25 Dec 2020
65
45th
The symbolism here isn't especially hard to figure out, mostly because it's so on-the-nose that there isn't much to miss. Still, despite glaring tonal issues & awkward writing that would drag other movies down, this works. I don't really know why, it just does. The performances are really good, it's freaky as hell, & the atmosphere is great. It did annoy me that they chose to not show so much- it just felt cheap- & the Christmas element felt mighty inconsequential. All said though, worth seeing.
Rated 10 Mar 2022
38
34th
Quite trash. Awful dialogues and an ending that's like "well here's an explanation for everything that just happened you IDIOT". I still didn't hate it or anything though.

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