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Films like Deadline.

Deadline (2009) reads as Heavy, steady, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Don't Blink (2014) poster
1. Don't Blink2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Pact II (2014) poster
2. The Pact II2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Skeptic (2009) poster
3. The Skeptic2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011) poster
4. Children of the Corn: Genesis2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Walled In (2009) poster
5. Walled In2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Death of a Ghost Hunter (2007) poster
6. Death of a Ghost Hunter2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Ouija Experiment (2011) poster
7. The Ouija Experiment2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Fertile Ground (2011) poster
8. Fertile Ground2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mirrors 2 (2010) poster
9. Mirrors 22010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

First Born (2007) poster
10. First Born2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Nine Miles Down (2009) poster
11. Nine Miles Down2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Beneath (2007) poster
12. Beneath2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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