Deadline (1980 film)

Deadline (also known as Anatomy of a Horror)[1] is a 1980[note 1] Canadian horror film directed and co-written by Mario Azzopardi and starring Stephen Young and Sharon Masters.

Deadline
Promotional release poster
Directed byMario Azzopardi
Produced byHenry Less
Written byMario Azzopardi
StarringStephen Young
Sharon Masters
CinematographyManfred Guthe
Release date
1980
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Cast
  • Stephen Young as Steven Lessey
  • Sharon Masters as Elizabeth Lessey
  • Marvin Goldhar as Burt Horowitz
  • Jeannie Elias as Darlene Winters
  • Cindy Hinds as Sharon Lessey
  • Phillip Leonard as Philip Lessey
  • Tod Woodcroft as David Lessey
  • Bev Marsh as Martha Lessey

Release

Though shot in mid - late 1979, the earliest known verifiable listing of the film's release year is in the publication Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis, copyrighted in 1982; in it, the film's release year is listed as "1980?".[1] Home video distributor Vinegar Syndrome lists the film's release year with more certainty as 1980.[2] Several other sources list the film's release year as 1980.[3][4][5] In a 1985 volume of The Motion Picture Guide, the film's release date is listed as 1984.[6] However, according to Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature, published in 1997, the film was released in 1979.[7]

Home media

The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Vinegar Syndrome in March 2020.[2][8]

Notes
  1. The earliest known verifiable listing of the film's release year dates it to around 1980. This is the year listed by the film's current distributor, Vinegar Syndrome. See the Release section for details.

References
  1. Willis, Donald C. (1982). Horror and Science Fiction Films II. Scarecrow Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0810815179.
  2. "Deadline – Vinegar Syndrome". Vinegar Syndrome. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  3. Wees, William C., ed. (2003). "Canadian Journal of Film Studies". 12 (2): 70. Retrieved 15 February 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Pratley, Gerald (2003). A Century of Canadian Cinema: Gerald Pratley's Feature Film Guide. Lynx Images. p. 57. ISBN 978-1894073219.
  5. Newman, Kim (2011). Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s (Revised and updated ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 135. ISBN 978-1408805039.
  6. Nash, Jay Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph (1985). The Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, Illinois: Cinebooks, Inc.
  7. Lerner, Loren R. (1997). Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature. University of Toronto Press. p. 869. ISBN 978-0802029881.
  8. "March 2020 Package (w/ VSA & Peekarama) – Vinegar Syndrome". Vinegar Syndrome. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
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