I wanted to but couldn't!

Boring

Best movie ever!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It's sad to think what has happened to once promising actresses Brittany Murphy and Thora Birch: Murphy is dead, and so is Birch's acting career. But while the exact cause of Murphy's death is still something of a mystery, the reason for Birch's fall from fame is obvious… it's down to bad career choices like this one.Deadline stars Murphy (looking far from her best) as screenwriter Alice, who travels to an abandoned Louisiana house to try and finish a script on time; while there, she experiences several strange events that lead her believe that the house is haunted, before discovering a box of video tapes that reveal precisely what happened to previous occupants Lucy (Birch) and her obsessively jealous husband David (Marc Blucas).However, with Alice having recently recovered from psychological problems stemming from a troubled relationship, could everything that she is experiencing be symptoms of another breakdown caused by the stress of producing a new script? Well, duh! The whole ambiguous 'is there really a ghost or is she mad?' plot line is terribly trite, and with dreary direction from Sean McConville, who aims for 'atmospheric' but only achieves 'stupefyingly dull', Deadline is one hell of a chore to stay awake through.

Mmm, a nervy girl with mental problems and on medication, decides on a whim, on hearing that the psychotic ex who's been stalking her has just been released from jail, that the best course of action would be to isolate herself in a huge, spooky, remote house without any transport. The premise alone is illogical enough to make most viewers put this back on the shelf.But my excuse is that it was on Five in the afternoon and, once I'd elected to give it a go, it was too hilarious to stop watching.The pace of the film verges on the glacial. Brittany Murphy, looking wan and pretty and rather like a ghost herself, wanders around in some sexier equivalent to pyjamas, wondering how she got herself into this nonsense. It starts to seem like nobody in the whole world ever moved so slowly. I can hear the director instructing her, 'Walk into the room slowly', then urging, 'No, Brittany, slower! Slower!' She sits in a tub and gazes mournfully off to one side. For hours.It's another one of those films that's predicated on the notion that a previous occupant felt the necessity to video every single thing that ever happened to them and that Brittany's character, rather than finding this nauseatingly narcissistic and tediously self-absorbed, would be sufficiently intrigued to watch all this footage back.Oh, I forgot to mention that she's a writer of some kind (people who stay in old, spooky houses generally are) and supposedly working to a deadline, not that you would know it. I think this may have been for some time in the next millennium.If your idea of horror is a few creaky doors and some very weak light fittings, you possibly might find yourself ever so slightly unnerved for a nanosecond. Otherwise, be prepared to find this a scream for all the wrong reasons.

Haven't reviewed any films for quite some time. Then again, I haven't seen anything that good, or awful, in the same amount of time. With sincere apologies to the production company and the Director, this film isn't worth the celluloid its printed on. For most of the movie the storyline does possess the potential to keep your attention, but it seems to jump all over the page and you're never really sure what the director is trying to say. Be that as it may, it held my attention until the final act. This is the point where I regretted spending the time necessary to get to that point. Either the plot is so intricate that it completely went over my head, or it is simply just a convoluted hodgepodge of twists and turns with no continuity whatsoever, and the only thing you can develop from it is a massive headache of the dizzying kind. Sorry to be so negative, but I honestly believe we should adhere to the talents we are known for and leave the other aspects to the professionals with proved track records. Sorry.

I just watched this horrid film 2 days ago. At no point did I think this was in any way good. The only reason I suffered/survived the whole thing was that I was trying to see if maybe it was one of those slow at first and then gets good movies. I was wrong. I spent the last two days trying to figure this movie out. The way it ended, it all made NO sense to me. Then as I was reading other reviews to see if anyone felt the same, or if someone had understood it and explained. Thankfully, someone did explain it. Sort of. It was more of a 'theory', but I'll go with it, since it made sense to me after I thought about it. Basically, Alice goes to the supposed creepy house to finish a screenplay, her 'girlfriend' drops her off and then leaves. Alice starts seeing/hearing weird things in the house. Alice finds a box of tapes and starts watching them. Uses them to write her screenplay. Witnesses a murder on it. Turns out a lot of what we saw, happened in her head. She was reliving repressed events. After, unfortunately remembering the movie, Alice called Rebecca at one point and asked her to look up information on David and Lucy. At the end, when Alice calls Rebecca again to tell her that David is in the house, Rebecca has no idea what Alice is talking about and says "I haven't talked to you in over a week, I've been worried about you." And that leads me to believe that the conversation with Ben didn't happen. For one, if Rebecca hadnt heard from Alice all week, she didn't really tell Alice that Ben was out of jail. Which lead me to believe that Ben isn't really out of jail... And he couldn't have possibly known where Alice is, nor could he have gotten her number.From what I gathered, Lucy=Rebecca, Alice=David... and Ben seems pretty unimportant...but maybe he plays Davids mom or the one that 'David' thought 'Lucy' was cheating on him with? Who knows.. If you notice, at the beginning of the movie, when they're in the car, Alice has the video camera and is recording Rebecca. At the end of the movie, Rebecca goes downstairs to look for David, she finds only the video camera on the floor and on the tape she sees herself on a bed, just like when Alice first found the tapes and it showed Lucy on the bed and David recording her. There was so much and nothing at all going on in this movie at the same time.