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Deadlock

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Deadlock is the sort of cross-genre film that distrubutors don't quite know how to sell, so it's marketed as an Amtyville type horror film, when it's really closer in spirit to the Evil Dead series - an indie horror comedy that makes up for it's lack of a budget with lots of wit and inventiveness (and maybe a gallon of blood and five gallons of radioactive-looking blue face paint). It ain't high art, but it has tons of style. Definite party fare - especially in late October.

This refreshing spoof of the horror genre starts from a clever premise -- an out-of-work soap actor inherits his dead brother's house, and the things that were haunting his brother -- and takes it in surprising directions. Fun characters -- especially the neighbors that are only slightly crazier than real-life neighbors -- and a dead-on send-up of Hollywood's ghouls. Low-budget indie manages to do some clever effects on no money (a "making-of" docu shows how). I've seen it twice with different groups of friends, and laughed out loud both times.