
Deadline (1980)
5.3|1 Jan, 1980|90 min
His obsession was to create the ultimate horror story… his curse was to live it.
5.3|1 Jan, 1980|90 min
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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.
Keywords
screenwriter
pregnancy
drug addiction
toronto, canada
burned alive
decapitation
writer
bathtub
filmmaking
novelist
horror filmmaking
giving birth
marital discord
canuxploitation
film within a film
death by hanging
death of a child
Casts

Stephen Young
Steven Lessey
Sharon Masters
Elizabeth Lessey
Marvin Goldhar
Burt Horowitz

Jeannie Elias
Darlene Winters

Cindy Hinds
Sharon Lessey
Phillip Leonard
Philip Lessey
Tod Woodcroft
David Lessey
Bev Marsh
Martha Lessey

Carole Pope
Herself
Kevan Staples
Punk Rock Band Member

Ken Camroux-Taylor
Moderator

Philip Akin
Student #1

Bill Yak
Student #2

Louis Negin
Older Man

James Kidnie
Younger Man
Henry Less
Film director
Peter Manierka
Bearded Monk
Walker Boone
Newscaster
William Osler
Doctor Masters
Jimmy Loftus
Inspector

Caroline Yeager
Nadya
Theresa Tova
Honey
Judy Foster
Bee
Richard Alden
Linstrom

Michael Copeman
Wino
Peter Peer
Boltz
Kurt Schiegl
Boltz’s Henchman
Crews
Colleen Allison
Makeup Artist
Eileen A. Dezouche
Hairstylist
Richard Oleksiak
Screenplay
Mario Philip Azzopardi
Director
Karen Hazzard
Casting
Harvey Zlatarits
Editor
Mario Philip Azzopardi
Screenplay
Mario Philip Azzopardi
Story
Henry Less
Producer
Sam Bari
Original Music Composer
Manfred Guthe
Director of Photography
Josef Ruff
Editor
Gary Zubeck
Editor
Dennis Chapman
Third Assistant Director
Robert Appelbe
Assistant Director
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