Deadline (2009)

Deadline (2009)

Drama/Horror/Thriller

Alice Evans is a 32-year old woman, who's recovering from a psychological breakdown since her boyfriend Ben tried to kill her. She has a deadline to a screenplay she has to finish writing and heads out to her friend's Victorian style house to finish her work. Her friend Rebecca doesn't agree that Alice stays in such a big house alone, but leaves her there alone, so Alice could focus. Alice discovers the house, where everything creeks, she tries to get a good night's sleep
before start her work on a screenplay. Sleep isn't so good and Alice decides to take a long bath before starting work. After getting bad news from Rebecca that Ben has gotten out of prison, Alice starts seeing and hearing weird things around the house. She finds a collection of home-made tapes of mysterious young couple Lucy and David Woods. Since she can't concerntrate, she keeps watching the videos to find her inspiration again. The tapes show Lucy and David happily living together and expecting their first baby. As the tapes progress David becomes more and more disturbed, having suspicions Lucy is cheating on him with another guy and the baby might not be his, even though Lucy swears he's the only man in her life. Alice starts feeling her connection to Lucy since Alice's boyfriend Ben also tried to kill her because he didn't believe
the baby Alice was expecting was his. Lucy and Alice both wre tried to drown in the bathrub by their boyfriends. Alice survived, but lost the baby. Alice watched the last tape, where she can see that David did kill Lucy in the bathtub and
then hanged himself. Alice gets a phone call from Ben, apologizing for everything he's done. During the phone call Alice sees a shadow in the house and is convinced Ben is inside the house with her and has tried playing tricks on her mind, though Ben notifies he's in Boston with his mother. Alice lets Rebecca find out everything she can about Lucy and David, Rebecca attests Lucy and David were report missing in 2005 by David's mother. Alice sees a tape of David being rescued from hanging suicide by his mother. She hears her name from behind the back and realizes it's David, who's been alive for this whole time. Alice escapes, she's taking a phone call to Rebecca and realizes she took the gun and she has nothing to protect herself with. David tries to drown Alice in the same bathtub he did with Lucy, but when Lucy's ghost appears, David gets heavily scared, falls down the stairs and dies immediately. Lucy saves Alice's life, letting the water down in the tub. Rebecca gets concerned about her friend and finds Alice in the bathtub. Rebecca gets her out of there and gives her the pills Alice hasn't been taking while being in the house. When Alice is calmed down, Rebecca finds a screenplay and starts reading it, she understands it's the story of dead Lucy and David. Rebecca finds a tape of herself sleeping filmed by Alice. 
Produced by Roger Betterton.
Directed and written by Sean McConville.

Cast: Brittany Murphy, Tammy Blanchard, Thora Birch, Marc Blucas