- HD 1080
- Runtime: 90m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Canada
- Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
- Stars: Stephen Young, Sharon Masters, Marvin Goldhar, Jeannie Elias, Cindy Hinds
- keywords: screenwriter, pregnancy, drug addiction, toronto, canada, burned alive, decapitation, writer, bathtub, filmmaking, novelist, horror filmmaking, giving birth, marital discord, canuxploitation, film within a film, death by hanging, death of a child
- Production_studio: Horror Picture Films, Canadian Film Development Corporation
- Slogan: His obsession was to create the ultimate horror story… his curse was to live it.
- providers: Troma NOW
- The Deadline is featured in the top rankings of 1980
- #42 in Top Thriller Movies of 1980
- #37 in Top Horror Movies of 1980
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.
