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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 he seems to have a dislike of. After singing a few christmas carols and a little more bickering between Frank and Laura, everyone in the car falls asleep, and frank continues driving, although the piece and quiet, makes him start to doze off too. He awakens by a cars horn and sees headlights coming towards him, so with a split second to spare he pulls away and avoids a head on collision.
After a few harsh words from the family about his driving skills, Frank sets off, and due to the boredom of driving the same way every year, for the past 20 years, Frank
decides to take a different route, and they find themselves travelling down a long road, with nothing but forest at either side of them. After a driving for a while Frank suddenly stops the car, and reverses a little, when asked the reason for this he tells the others that he say a 'woman in white' in the forest. They see no sign of her, and are about to carry on and theres a nock on the door, and the woman is there carrying a blanked and sporting a nasty cut across her forehead. Franks asks Richard to make room for her and walk behind the car, but he defy his fathers wishes so Marion leaves instead. They tell her to meet them at the cabin which they previously passed, and they help the injured woman into the car, where she sits silent and still, which Frank Predicts is down to shock.
They head for thesmall cabin with Marion walking down the road a quite a distance away and once there Frank and Laura head inside in the hope of finding a Ranger, to help them with the woman and Richard heads into the woods alone, leaving Brad alone in the car with the woman and her baby. He tries to have a conversation with her, but she ignores him and doesn't even look at him.
After a while of sitting in silence she begins talking about her baby, and she (the baby) is cold. She hands the baby to Brad and asks him to hold her and he starts talking about how he isn't very good with babies. And after noticing something a little wrong, He asks if she'd beable to breath under all those blankets, to which the woman replies "She doesn't need to breathe because she's dead". He think this is just some sick joke, so he unravels the blanket and sees whats inside.
We hear a scream, and Frank and Laura, leave the cabin, and see that Brad and the Woman are no longer in the car. They shout Richard who comes out of the woods, confused to what has happened. The scene then goes back to Marion walking towards the cabin by herself, and some mysterious car headlights turn on in front of her. As she looks on, a ghostly black hearse with blacked out windows, drives past, with Brad banging on the back windows trying to escape.
From here on in, things start happening to the rest of the family, each time, the woman in white is spotted, and then the black hearse appears with one of its unfortunate victims inside. While the people who are still alive try there best to get off of this road and into a place not on the maps but on the roadsigns known only as Margate.
Alot of people I know didn't enjoy this film in the slightest, but I thought it was pretty well made. The acting wasn't too bad, though it could have been a lot better. I'd never seen any of the actors in any other movies, apart from Ray Wise, who was in Twin Peaks.
The way Jean-Baptiste Andrea films some of the scenes are magnificant, The aerial view of the car travelling down the road in the middle of the woods, does it's job well of showing the predicament the family have got themselves in. Also when a character is killed, you never see the actual body, instead it is filmed from the bodies point of view, watching the families reactions to seeing their loved ones body. Some people have complained about how this take something with away from the movie, but in my opinion it adds alot. I have a very vivid imagination, and other peoples imaginations of what the lifeless corpse would look like is always going to be more frightening that a prop could show.
Also when one person dies, another always seems to go a little crazy due to shock, the first or second time it seems like a fair realistic idea, but then the writers use this a little too much and it kind of becomes a little boring, seeing each charcter act the same way. Although the shock can leave to some creepy moments. I particularly found the part where marion who is in a state of deep shock after seeing her boyfriends mutilated body, and starts singing jingles bells while having a lifeless stare rather creepy. And the part where Laura was looking out of the car window, saying that there were people in the woods with sad faces, and then talking to her friend who died 15 years earlier also made uneasy viewing.
Overall I think it's a fairly good film, and with the price you can get it for now (£5 on Play.com) it's definetly worth a watch. It has a nice twist towards the end which gives you something to think about, and reminds me a little of The Blair Witch Project, in how it makes you use your imagination to guess what is happening.
There are special features on this movie too, but I have not watched them so I will not rate them. Hence this being a film only review.
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