Also like David Woods, Ben tried to drown Alice in the bathtub. As she keeps watching the tapes, we learn the reason Ben tried to kill Alice: like Lucy Woods, Alice was pregnant and, like David Woods, Ben became convinced the baby wasn't his.

Feeling worried about Alice, Rebecca offers to come visit, but Alice insists she is fine. Alice keeps watching the video tapes of the Woods and asks Rebecca to do research on the couple for her.

One tape shows him filming Lucy as she sleeps muttering 'she looks like an angel.'Īlice also watches one of her own tapes of herself and Rebecca (before Ben tried to kill her) and it is strongly implied she and Rebecca are more than just friends. He becomes convinced Lucy is seeing someone else and that the baby may not be his, even though she assures him she's never been with any one else. However, as the tapes progress, the more disturbed David grows. At first the tapes just show the couple lovingly talking about their new baby and life together in the house. She begins searching the house and finds a collection of videotapes in the attic featuring a mysterious young couple, Lucy and David Woods. She insists on staying there alone, and her friend Rebecca reluctantly agrees and leaves her there.Īlice begins to hear strange noises in the house and becomes convinced the house is haunted by the ghost of a murdered woman. 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. Deadline is a 2009 American psychological horror film directed by Sean McConville and starring Brittany Murphy and Thora Birch.Īlice Evans needs to complete a screenplay, which she has not finished due to a psychological breakdown after her boyfriend, Ben, tried to kill her.

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