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Title: Dead End
Cast: Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Mick Cain, Alexandra Holden, Billy Asher, Amber Smith
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa

dead end is a low budget horror/slasher film, one of those ones where the bodies pile up as the film goes on. but by being low budget it actually comes off better than some of it's glossier rivals. as it has to make more of what it has got - which leads to better dialogue and character interaction. with no special effects there is no tension lost by the revelation of a duff monster, and no attempt to shock with a shitty gore factor. rather the focus is on the reaction the characters have to finding a dead body, and the steadily growing horror they experience.

every year the family travel down to the woman's mother's for christmas day. with his wife and kids asleep the guy decides to take a different route for the first time in 20 years of making the journey. however when they stop to help a young woman things start going wrong, and with a seemingly endless road through an endless dark forest it increasingly seems unlikely that any of them will survive...