Attention-grabbing departure from reality.

EyeAskance

Long overlooked examination of a family man's spiraling madness is surprisingly brainy, and skillfully realized on meager financial rations.

A horror novelist's dark fantasy world collides with his personal reality, causing a landslide of hallucinogenic dementia within both his family life and his his professional endeavors. A very ominous and disorienting Canadian-made nightmare oozing with abstract, disturbing imagery, DEADLINE is also spurred by able performers and imaginative directorial edginess. These refinements, together with a conceptually unique premise, catapult this film above and beyond most low-budget horror menu side-orders.

7/10...definitely worthy of a rental, if not a purchase.

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EyeAskance 16 October 2003

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