{"id":18084,"date":"2025-10-30T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18084"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:18:57","slug":"dead-end-2003-andrea-canepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18084","title":{"rendered":"Dead End (2003, Andrea & Canepa)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Marilyn Manson joke in the movie’s opening seconds, paterfamilias Ray Wise driving his daughter Laura, the camera hovering over the center line – somebody’s got a thing for David Lynch. It’s a Christmas road trip movie, petty griping from the back seat, until the ordinary gets interrupted by a Woman In White holding a dead baby. Figuring out what to do about the WIW the family members get separated, then they find what’s left of the daughter’s boyfriend Brad aside the road.<\/p>\n

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“This reeks of alien activity, you guys.” They appear to be on a loop road like the one in Freddy’s Dead<\/a><\/em>, and whenever the Woman In White kills someone the survivors see them being taken away in a black car. After her son disappears mom goes nuts and shoots Ray in the leg, then she’s next. It all turns out to be a purgatorial fantasy when the daughter wakes up and is told she survived the car crash that killed the others.<\/p>\n

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Not a bad movie, though the music is a great crime. Most of the people who made this never worked again. The DP did an Elijah Wood thing, an exec producer worked on Voyage of Time<\/a><\/em>. The mom is horror regular Lin Shaye, in Critters<\/em> and The Hidden<\/em> and New Nightmare<\/em>, the WIW was a beer spokesmodel, and the daughter was in a Sid Haig \/ Bill Moseley movie that Rob Zombie had nothing to do with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Marilyn Manson joke in the movie’s opening seconds, paterfamilias Ray Wise driving his daughter Laura, the camera hovering over the center line – somebody’s got a thing for David Lynch. It’s a Christmas road trip movie, petty griping from the back seat, until the ordinary gets interrupted by a Woman In White holding a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,110,54,1058],"class_list":["post-18084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-ghosts","tag-horror","tag-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18104,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions\/18104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}