Deadline is a 2009 American psychological horror film directed by Sean McConville and starring Brittany Murphy and Thora Birch.

Alice Evans needs to complete a screenplay, which she has not finished due to a psychological breakdown after her boyfriend, Ben, tried to kill her.

With the deadline for the screenplay approaching, she accepts an offer by a producer friend to let her stay in a Victorian-style home he has recently purchased, so she can focus on her work.

[1] She begins searching the house and finds a collection of videotapes in the attic featuring a mysterious young couple, Lucy and David Woods.

Alice keeps watching the video tapes of the Woods and asks Rebecca to do research on the couple for her.

During the call, Alice sees a shadow in the house and becomes convinced Ben is inside with her, and that he has been responsible for everything that has been happening while she was there, but he insists he is in Boston with his mother.

Still, Alice is afraid and starts to run away, but at that point, she sees the end of the tape which shows David Woods actually survived his hanging when his mother cut him down just in time.

Rebecca pulls her out of the tub, and as she dries her off, she finds the screen play that Alice has been working on all this time.

[5] After Murphy's death on December 20, 2009, Redbox recalled film posters which were displayed on kiosks around the country.