Dead End
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
2003 horror movie directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa, can be found on IMDB here, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308152/
Tropes used in Dead End include:
- Abandoned Area
- A House Divided
- Cruel and Unusual Death
- Dead All Along
- Developing Doomed Characters
- Don't Go in The Woods
- Enemy Rising Behind
- Fantastic Aesop About falling asleep at the wheel
- Final Girl
- Going in Circles
- Gory Discretion Shot & Take Our Word for It, by your powers combined, I am Narm
- Infant Immortality Subverted
- Jump Scare
- Offscreen Teleportation
- Or Was It a Dream?
- Psychological Torment Zone
- Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Mostly lurks on the horror side, but bounces into comedy at unexpected moments.
- Someone to Remember Him By Though she knew she was pregnant beforehand
- Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
- Too Dumb to Live Masturbating and smoking pot while your family is lost in the woods is a good way to end up on the wrong end of the morality scale
- Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb