 Welcome to another episode of frankly forgotten horror movies, but what are we drinking? Wolf's Bane English Bitter today? We're gonna bring to you another Canadian movie shot in 1979, but the release date is a little sketchy some say it's 1980 Some say it's 82 84 so anywhere from 80 to 84 and the movie is deadline the movies directed by Mario as a party Steven Young is in this as the main lead and he is in quite a few things He's kind of like a prolific Canadian actor, but one major movie. He was in was silent green Marvin Goldhaar is in this 80s Canadian kids might recognize his voice from an 80s Canadian Standard being the raccoons. Yeah play Cedric sneer. Yeah We get introduced to Steven lessy He's a famous horror novelist, and he's also a screenwriter a lot of his Movies and ideas are getting put onto the big screen sounds familiar Yeah, he comes downstairs for breakfast and you kind of get the sense that he's working far too hard He's never around when you work so much daddy I gotta work hard to pay for this big house and to get money to pay for you He's going to be the recipient of an award and he's got to go to the university to go get it Turns out that he actually has to defend his work Against all these people who think that his work is like corrupting people's minds nowadays Trashing the horror genre exactly. Yeah him and his wife get into the car and his wife starts laughing at him Just about the whole scene and he hits her I'm sorry right away. I'm sorry. I'm sorry We also see that he's getting a lot of pressure From his producer to start pumping out these scripts That are sort of cookie cutter. He doesn't want to do this anymore. He's sick of this shit I want to do something else. I want to take my work to the next level His kids are like coming up to him even asking for like a glass of water gonna have to get it yourself I'm just too busy His wife ends up coming home. Just fucking smashed falls into that side table He smashes that vase all up puts her into the bed, and she's passed out and he's like you goddamn mother fucking bitch Fucking just smacks her one while she's passed out That's not good they go to a party if they're not even with each other She's off in her own little. Yeah, you find out that neither of them organized the babysitter They just left the kids at home, right? They're like, oh they call I gotta go call my mom And maybe she'll come over and watch the kids. I was working. God damn it Steven's on the set of the movie. They're shooting and him and the main actress are always clashing, you know She wants she wants better dialogue something that's meaningful and they're filming this scene where she's got to cut the head off this monk Yeah, says all this mumbo jumbo and cuts off the head and she's like ah shit. I don't feel it Yeah, I don't feel anything. I don't feel it feel what This is all shit So he knows that he's just writing this garbage, right? Yeah He's driving home tunes into the radio and he hears his reporter talking children were playing and reenacting part of a horror movie and The tragedy has happened and one of them has been killed and he's like I'm just turns it off right right pulls into his driveway There's all these cops there and you find out it was his kids that he heard about on the radio Oh, man, and they were watching one of his movies called the executioners And they're trying to reenact a scene of like a hanging The mom comes home and starts flipping out losing her mind and they start blaming each other, right? Yeah, he starts blaming the kids. Yeah, we're doing what they did start super shaking that kid. What have I done to you bastards? Bastards wife and kids leave him and he just spirals out of control And that's where we're gonna leave the plot off if you want to find out what happens watch the movie deadline 1980 or 82 Or It's pretty obvious that the movie is a huge social commentary There's a lot of stuff about the movie business right artists and what they have to go through when they're under a lot of pressure To make other people money and happy The guy can't write what he wants to write He's got to write what the producer says will make money exactly he's miserable and he can't do it anymore Yeah, I'm kind of selling out. It also shows the effects of too much pressure He's under so much pressure that he starts to defer a lot of stuff to his wife because he's been working so much Their relationship has been failing. Yeah, so his wife is buggering off out of the house all the time And she's not looking after the kids or the household or anything. Yeah, and he doesn't even notice Yeah, and he isn't either. Yeah, but he's doing it exactly There's got to be accountability right in a relationship. The kids are on the sidelines kind of Being the biggest losers in the whole thing here sympathize with the situation. He's in yeah, not necessarily with him Yeah, right. It's like as a shitty position to your put in but you're kind of an asshole Yeah, I don't really feel too sorry for you feel more sorry for the kids just because you're under a lot of pressure It doesn't mean you have to be an asshole exactly Yeah, it's also cool how it's commentary on the horror genre, right that big debate in the university Well, this is garbage and this isn't really art and the fact that he really wants to write something truly terrifying But nobody gives a shit right right just want they don't want your best Yeah, yeah, just want the cookie cutter stuff that'll make money it parallels real life too, right with I think Stephen King Yeah, right at the time was the big horror writer all those books were being turned into movies at the time You know, that's right. Yeah, and there's even the director of the movie They're making is a spitting image of 1970s John Carpenter to this mustache It's like they know what they're doing. They know that they're spoofing or at least they're trying to mirror real life You know, that's right the famous horror director with the famous horror writer. You know, yeah, it's not Crammed down your throat. No, no, no, but but it's obvious. That's a fine line there The acting in the dialogue in this movie are spectacular. I guess one of the best Written movies as far as the dialogue goes that I've seen where it's like, this is how people talk Yeah, this is how people get into arguments This is you know the foul stuff that comes out of people's mouths and they're pissed off like yeah The stuff that comes out of his mouth you fucking bitch. Yeah Like it's like whoa it kind of it takes you back a bit how visceral it is But it's like that's realistic. Yeah when you're in the heat of the moment stupid shit comes out of your mouth A lot of Canadian movies hide the fact as Canadian either doesn't take place in Canada They don't want to let you know. Oh, this is New York. Yeah, this movie. They don't hide the fact as Canadian They mentioned the fact it takes place in Toronto. They show the CN Tower So it's like yeah, I can't like the fact they're not hiding it Yeah, yeah, it's Canadian and there's even a comment about Canadian movies being shitty in the movie Which is pretty good. It's pretty funny. It knows what it is, right? Yeah, it's funny because Canadian movies aren't all that bad No, but they have that stigma, right? Yeah, that look coming back to the horror aspect of this movie The score for this movie is actually really really good. It's so somber. There's a lot of cool snippets Interjected throughout the whole movie Yeah, his idea is going through his mind while he's working like that lady taking the shower and that Early 80s with all the black tiling and the bathroom. Yeah blood all the red blood coming down and it looks Spectacular. I love the contrast of all the colors and that's great. Yeah, that's awesome Some guy working on a thresher and there's like a goat The goat has I guess powers or something and starts to turn the threshing machine on and it starts to tear his limbs off Yeah, and it looks great. Yeah, it's really good It was another real long segment of this idea. He has which is ludicrous Big for awful movie Nazi punk bands all playing and then this kind of Nazi Scientist comes all I have this new invention. It's a new sound system and it will deliver frequencies that will make people shit their pants Like what kind of premise for a movie is that and they give Like wheel barrels They all start like Exploding because There's another good one too with an old lady or it just shows like these kids bring an old lady like a grandma Later into the bed and start tying her up Then they all lighter on fire Like I'm crazy Another neat one with all these nuns start like eating the priest The imagery is really cool. Yeah, yeah, it's really awesome But after his daughter dies and he keeps having visions of her and he sees her hanging It's like whoa, it's fucking haunting like that. That's a little girl there in that new swinging. That's right There's no bullshit. There's no dummy and when they show her like Hanging and the kids are struggling to kind of untie it and they're not doing it in time. Yeah, whoa Yeah, that's what's pretty heavy stuff Yeah, and it's something that you you don't see nowadays I don't think you would see that nowadays. So it's pretty neat that this movie actually really isn't a horror movie It's kind of a drama, but it's about horror movies. Yeah, it's about horror and it's about what? You know how horror affects people or could affect people how the general public viewed it at the time is like Not art as garbage exactly and this movie is actually the complete opposite. It is pretty artsy Yeah, what do you think about it? It's saying something. Yeah about art About relationships about horror as a genre about everything really about the time the culture of the time It's a fucking smart movie. It's pretty deep. Yeah for a kind of a forgotten movie, you know, it's Has a lot to say about a lot of things and it's Canadian. No less Kudos to us. Yeah So if you want to check out a really smart movie about the horror genre and about the people who create it then definitely check out 1980 some things Deadline and until next time keep drinking