Deadly End (2005) 4/10

Deadly End is a little indie flick that had lots of trouble getting distribution, despite numerous festival appearances and awards. I'm thinking the festivals were crazy and the distributors were the only ones with taste.

Deadly End is about a young couple that moves into a new house provided by the company employing the husband. In time they discover that all is not what it seems on this sleepy street. When they find out their neighbor has been poisoning them, they decide to fight back which only makes matters worse.

The first sequence of Deadly End bored the hell out of me and that's generally not a good sign. The film was put together on a shoestring budget which makes me want to cut it a bit of slack, but a small budget does not explain why the script sucks. There's way too much in this film that distracts from the main conflict. We see the husband go to work and do his day to day stuff but honestly that has nothing to do with the conflict with the neighbor. It's almost as if the writer didn't have enough material for a feature and decided to stick in some pad to beef up the length. Instead it just slows the film down making it hard to sit through. Hell the conflict with the neighbor doesn't even begin until about 20-30 minutes into the film! To me, that's just not acceptable.

In the end when you're working with a low budget, you have to make sure your script kicks ass so that the viewer is willing to overlook the obvious financial short comings. There's plenty of low budget horror cheapies that have done this, Deadly End, did not.

Gore - A few gross outs at the end

Nudity - none

Overall - 4/10