DEAD END appears to be just the latest in a long line of modern horror flicks about people lost in the great American outdoors being terrorised and slaughtered by something nameless and unstoppable. You know the movies I mean – the likes of JEEPERS CREEPERS, WRONG TURN, CABIN FEVER. It? a curious little horror genre …
Realistically speaking, there was no way that this latest big budget version of Jules Verne’s classic adventure romp was ever going to be a huge hit in America. I mean, this is the twenty-first century and the multiplex crowd want superheroes, cool FX-heavy blockbuster extravanganas, they went glamourous streetwise cool dudes and they want, it …
(released in the UK on 7thApril 2003) Hmmm. I don’t think I really approve of DVD Special Editions ?particularly ones like THE X MEN 1.5 which has all the commentaries, behind-the-scenes features and documentaries which could have and should have appeared on the first version of the disc. But hey-ho, here it is anyway, cleverly …