Dead End

Part of the special series NACHTBLENDE

“Ray wise going insane and having a significant family member named Laura cinematic universe”
Megan on Letterboxd

The debut of French directing duo Jean-Baptiste Andrea & Fabrice Canepa is a “small” genre hit in the best sense of the word, which caused a real hype in video stores at the time. A funny and eerie horror comedy with TWILIGHT ZONE references that gets a lot out of its reduced budget.

And you thought last christmas was bad... On the way to Grandma's Christmas party, Papa Frank's microsleep leads to a near-accident. Out of boredom, he didn't take the highway this time, but a country road through the forest, which is the family's undoing. Because when the clocks stop working, women with dead babies appear and creepy faces stare at us from the forest, it's just the beginning of a crazy ride on the threshold of the realm of the dead...