FilmPsychological Splatter & Gore

Deadline1980

Name: Deadline
Genre: Psychological, Splatter & Gore
Released: 1980-01-01
Rating: 5.9

“His obsession was to create the ultimate horror story… his curse was to live it.”

Directed by Mario Azzopardi

5.9

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IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.1

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Year

1980

Runtime

90 min

The premise

A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.

Horror Vault's take

A successful horror screenwriter finds the line between imagination and reality dissolving around him, dragging his career, his marriage, and his family down with him. As professional pressure mounts and a looming deadline consumes his every thought, the gruesome worlds he conjures on the page begin to bleed into his waking life. Deadline is a dark, self-aware meditation on what it costs a person — and the people around them — to create art from darkness.

Content: Graphic Violence, Death Of A Child, Depictions Of Burning, Decapitation, Hanging, Drug Use, Disturbing Imagery Involving Pregnancy And Childbirth