Product Details

• Actors: Nick Searcy, Jack Huston, Pell James
• Directors: Graeme Whifler
• Format: Subtitled, Color, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: WIZARD ENTERTAI
• DVD Release Date: January 29, 2008
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000XNZ7P2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,861 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Deadly End" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

It seemed like the perfect neighborhood, at least that's what Bob and Wendi Petersen thought, before they met their new neighbor... But behind every perfect neighborhood, there hides a dark secret. On Wormwood Drive that secret is named Adrien Trumbull; behind his welcoming grin lurks a dark obsession with poison and self-mutilation and within the walls of his rancid home, hides pure madness. For Bob and Wendi Petersen, the neighborhood of their dreams is about to become a living nightmare, a deadly end.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Fairly disturbing? Yeah... Enjoyable? Uhhhh... March 9, 2008

By D. Wilson VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

Here's a scenario from Deadly End that should tell you right away if this is the type of movie you really want to watch or not... a man uses his finger to have sex with an open wound on his stomach while repeatedly stabbing himself in the privates with a syringe(which of course brings him great pleasure). I CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP PEOPLE! Deadly End tells the tale of Wendy and Bob Peterson and their neighbor from Hell, Adrian Trumbull. Adrian welcomes them to the neighborhood with all sorts of devious tricks(that oddly enough would have fit just as well in a Home Alone movie) such as a boquet of poison oak and chocolates filled with laxitives(!?). Things get much darker and bring far more serious consequences when the Petersons confront him about his recent "gifts"... hijinx ensue! Deadly End is a pretty methodical horror/thriller that every once in awhile tosses in a moment of complete over the top madness like the one mentioned at the top of the review. The end result is a mixed bag that does more right due to solid performances(including Nick Searcy giving an inspired performance as Trumbull) and a finale that should churn the stomach of even the most hardened horror fans(and done with some of the best low budget effects I've ever seen). One major knock on the film would have to be the near constant need for suspension of disbelief... don't get me wrong, in horror movies this isn't uncommon(or really movies in general) but in a film like this that plans to deliver much of it's impact by making the viewer feel like "this could happen anywhere,maybe even to me," a few less moments of unbelievability wouldn't have hurt. Although the movie is basically just a sleazy, low budget version of the 1990 thriller Pacific Heights(starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith and Mathew Modine) it's far from the worst direct-to-DVD fear flick on the shelf(in fact it's one of the better). Highly recommended for those into the more morbid and extreme horror(and you know who you are LOL!), all else should read the opening statement at the top of the review again before searching this out.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I watched this alone and I'm glad I did February 26, 2008

By Music Lover in Omaha

Format:DVD

First of all, I rented this just because I didn't see anything else that looked interesting and I was in a hurry. Also, I watched it alone due to an aversion to violence on the part of my viewing partner. I'm glad I watched it alone so no one could see me cringing like a little girl. The special effects at the end of this film were simply awesome. I was astonished and repulsed by what I was seeing and it was great. This is not your typical teen slasher movie. This had some real horror to the point of being downright scary. It didn't hurt to have terrific performances by the entire cast and that goes right down to the attendees of the neighborhood watch meeting. The little old lady who wanted desserts was great in her role. This film is not for everyone, but if you like some gore and some terror without any explicit sex, this might be for you. I was kind of disapointed at one thing though. I thought the woman at Zeecor would have more of a role in the film. She was good in her part, but I thought for sure she was going to seduce someone. There's not a lot of action in this film or any over the top cheap scares, just a solid effort of building to a fine and gruesome climax.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Suburban Horror Stories April 9, 2008

By Greg Goodsell

Format:DVD

Hurricane fences. Lawns gone fallow. Abandoned cars. Rubbish strewn vacant lots. Boxes full of cheap trinkets. Street after street of identical tract homes. Wood paneling. Indifferent receptionists. Retirees waiting to die. Irritable neighbors. Unpainted drywall. Flickering fluorescent lights. Cheap linoleum floors. Nothing on TV ...

Deadly End, when it went under the name of Neighborhood Watch while on the film festival circuit generated an intriguing buzz. Some found it the most disturbing film, ever. Still other viewers likened it to the works of David Lynch. There were even audience members who actively disliked the film, calling it "tedious and unwatchable."

The story is no great shakes. Bob (Jack Huston) is a young British yuppie out to carve a niche for himself in corporate America who lands a job in Nowheresville, California. His cheerful American bride Wendi (Pell James) is along for the ride, and blinded by new and exciting possibilities, the couple moves into a distressed suburban hellhole. The people in the surrounding area appear to be less than ideal. The elderly couple across the way seems to be in the final stages of dementia, and their overly enthusiastic next-door neighbor Adrien (reliable character actor Nick Searcy) showers the newlyweds with booby-trapped gifts. Flower arrangements composed of sprigs of poison oak and chocolates laced with horse laxatives send our lovebirds to the hospital emergency room, and a war of wills ensues.

Deadly End has several implausibility issues. The police force in the film waives away the many complaints filed against Adrien due to his father being the mayor, in spite of all the ensuing mayhem. Our couple seems more than a bit naďve as well. It's perplexing why they just don't flee the area and check into a local Motel 6.

What Deadly End has going for it in spades is a suffocating, soul-crushing atmosphere of ennui and despair. One doesn't need a haunted house, an isolated stretch of countryside or threatening urban setting as a setting of horror; one only has to look at the long stretches of housing thrown up overnight to accommodate an influx of ready labor that has fallen into ruin just as quickly. Deadly End makes many pointed observations about the American ideal of home and safety, and just how fragile popular hopes and expectations can be dashed against broken concrete sidewalks.

Deadly End has a slow, leisurely pace - but be forewarned that the ending is just as graphic and gross as anything Takashi Miike can dish out. It's not a film for the squeamish, and is definitely not for children. While Deadly End can be recommended as a solid rental over the dross of countless other horror titles vying for shelf space at the local Blockbuster, this reviewer suspects its cult appeal will be limited to those who can appreciate its depiction of a surreal, hellish landscape that can be readily viewed out of any back window.