Deadline (1980 film)
{{Infobox film
| name = Deadline
| image = File:Deadline (1980) poster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Promotional release poster
| director = Mario Azzopardi
| producer = Henry Less
| writer = Mario Azzopardi
| screenplay =
| story =
| starring = Stephen Young
Sharon Masters
| music =
| cinematography = Manfred Guthe
| editing =
| studio =
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1980}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = Canada
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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Deadline (also known as Anatomy of a Horror){{cite book|last=Willis|first=Donald C.|year=1982|title=Horror and Science Fiction Films II|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/horrorsciencefic0000will_f9b1/page/10 10]|isbn=978-0810815179|url=https://archive.org/details/horrorsciencefic0000will_f9b1/page/10}} is a 1980{{refn|group=note|The earliest known verifiable listing of the film's release year dates it to around 1980. This is the year listed by the film's current distributor, Vinegar Syndrome. See the Release section for details.}} Canadian horror film directed and co-written by Mario Azzopardi and starring Stephen Young and Sharon Masters.
Cast
- Stephen Young as Steven Lessey
- Sharon Masters as Elizabeth Lessey
- Marvin Goldhar as Burt Horowitz
- Jeannie Elias as Darlene Winters
- Cindy Hinds as Sharon Lessey
- Phillip Leonard as Philip Lessey
- Tod Woodcroft as David Lessey
- Bev Marsh as Martha Lessey
Release
The earliest known verifiable listing of the film's release year is in the publication Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis, copyrighted in 1982; in it, the film's release year is listed as "1980?". Home video distributor Vinegar Syndrome lists the film's release year with more certainty as 1980.{{cite web|url=https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/vinegar-syndrome/products/deadline|title=Deadline – Vinegar Syndrome|publisher=Vinegar Syndrome|access-date=February 15, 2020}} Several other sources list the film's release year as 1980.{{cite journal|editor-last=Wees|editor-first=William C.|date=2003|title=Canadian Journal of Film Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAYnAQAAIAAJ|volume=12|issue=2|page=70|access-date=15 February 2020}}{{cite book|last=Pratley|first=Gerald|author-link=Gerald Pratley|year=2003|title=A Century of Canadian Cinema: Gerald Pratley's Feature Film Guide|publisher=Lynx Images|page=57|isbn=978-1894073219}}{{cite book|last=Newman|first=Kim|author-link=Kim Newman|year=2011|title=Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s|edition=Revised and updated|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|page=135|isbn=978-1408805039}} In a 1985 volume of The Motion Picture Guide, the film's release date is listed as 1984.{{cite book|last1=Nash|first1=Jay Robert|last2=Ross|first2=Stanley Ralph|author1-link=Jay Robert Nash|author2-link=Stanley Ralph Ross|year=1985|title=The Motion Picture Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4cqAAAAYAAJ|location=Chicago, Illinois|publisher=Cinebooks, Inc.|isbn=}}{{ISBN missing|date=February 2020}} However, according to Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature, published in 1997, the film was released in 1979.{{cite book|last=Lerner|first=Loren R.|year=1997|title=Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature|publisher=University of Toronto Press|page=869|isbn=978-0802029881}}
Home media
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Vinegar Syndrome in March 2020.{{cite web|url=https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/vinegar-syndrome/products/march-2020-package-w-vsa-peekarama|title=March 2020 Package (w/ VSA & Peekarama) – Vinegar Syndrome|publisher=Vinegar Syndrome|access-date=February 14, 2020|archive-date=February 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214205436/https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/vinegar-syndrome/products/march-2020-package-w-vsa-peekarama|url-status=dead}}
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0082244|title=Deadline}}
Category:Canadian horror thriller films
Category:English-language Canadian films
Category:1980s English-language films