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* AbandonedArea: The road is empty, except for a single shack full of what seems to be hunting/equestrian paraphernalia. [[spoiler: And there's only one other car.]]
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* AbandonedArea: The road is empty, except for a single shack full of what seems to be hunting/equestrian paraphernalia. [[spoiler: And [[spoiler:And there's only one other car.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of the main characters, except Marion,[[spoiler: were killed in a car crash and implied to be mangled in horrific ways. The Lady in White is heard begging to be rescued at the other end of Laura's phone call, suggesting that she was trapped in the wreckage and slowly died.]]
** Along the road, [[spoiler: which might only be a dream]], the characters suffer cruel deaths as well. [[spoiler: Brad is mangled, Richard is burned alive, Laura suffers a traumatic head injury that leaves her brain exposed, and Frank somehow ends up hung from a tree. Even the baby is badly mangled.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: The end of the movie has Marion waking up in the hospital after the rest of her family died in a car crash after her father fell asleep at the wheel. And then there's TheStinger (though it doesn't necessarily contradict TheReveal).]]
** Along the road, [[spoiler: which might only be a dream]], the characters suffer cruel deaths as well. [[spoiler: Brad is mangled, Richard is burned alive, Laura suffers a traumatic head injury that leaves her brain exposed, and Frank somehow ends up hung from a tree. Even the baby is badly mangled.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: The end of the movie has Marion waking up in the hospital after the rest of her family died in a car crash after her father fell asleep at the wheel. And then there's TheStinger (though it doesn't necessarily contradict TheReveal).]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** All of the main characters, exceptMarion,[[spoiler: were Marion, [[spoiler:were killed in a car crash and implied to be mangled in horrific ways. The Lady in White is heard begging to be rescued at the other end of Laura's phone call, suggesting that she was trapped in the wreckage and slowly died.]]
** Along the road,[[spoiler: which [[spoiler:which might only be a dream]], the characters suffer cruel deaths as well. [[spoiler: Brad [[spoiler:Brad is mangled, Richard is burned alive, Laura suffers a traumatic head injury that leaves her brain exposed, and Frank somehow ends up hung from a tree. Even the baby is badly mangled.]]
* DeadAllAlong:[[spoiler: The end of the movie has Marion [[spoiler:Marion waking up in the hospital after the rest of her family died in a car crash after her father fell asleep at the wheel. And then there's TheStinger (though it doesn't necessarily contradict TheReveal).]] wheel.]]
** All of the main characters, except
** Along the road,
* DeadAllAlong:
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* DontGoInTheWoods: The forest the road cuts through. [[spoiler: It's actually just a desolate SmallSecludedWorld that loops on itself in every direction, and leaving the road for the woods is a great way to die.]]
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* DontGoInTheWoods: The forest the road cuts through. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's actually just a desolate SmallSecludedWorld that loops on itself in every direction, and leaving the road for the woods is a great way to die.]]
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* GoingInCircles: The titular dead end. [[spoiler: There ''is'' no end to the road.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the deaths, except[[spoiler: Laura's.]]
* AHouseDivided: The family fractures the longer the trip goes on. [[spoiler: And in the end, Marion wakes up the only survivor of the wreck.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the deaths, except[[spoiler: Laura's.]]
* AHouseDivided: The family fractures the longer the trip goes on. [[spoiler: And in the end, Marion wakes up the only survivor of the wreck.]]
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* GoingInCircles: The titular dead end. [[spoiler: There [[spoiler:There ''is'' no end to the road.]]
%% ZeroContextExample: * GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the deaths,except[[spoiler: Laura's.except [[spoiler:Laura's.]]
* AHouseDivided: The film ''starts'' with the family already annoying and snapping at each other, but no more than one would expect near the end of a long drive. The ordeal they go through on the road and the trauma it causes fracturesthe longer the trip goes on. [[spoiler: And in the end, Marion wakes up the only survivor them further. Patience runs thin, arguments get more heated, and their barbs go from being annoying to actually hurting.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Laura's is probably one of thewreck.[[CrossesTheLineTwice most hilarious and most revolting]] ever put to film. [[spoiler:After getting the back of her skull chopped off, she reaches to investigate the wound and touches her exposed brain matter.. which she begins masturbating. Which would just be the regular kind of disturbing, except she's been subtly implying that she's been deeply frustrated sexually for years the whole movie, and she shouts her husband's name and says "Oh, ''finally''!" as she climaxes to death.]]
%% ZeroContextExample: * GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the deaths,
* AHouseDivided: The film ''starts'' with the family already annoying and snapping at each other, but no more than one would expect near the end of a long drive. The ordeal they go through on the road and the trauma it causes fractures
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Laura's is probably one of the
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* TheImmodestOrgasm: Laura's is probably one of [[CrossesTheLineTwice most hilarious and most revolting]] ever put to film. [[spoiler: After getting the back of her skull chopped off, she reaches to investigate the wound and touches her exposed brain matter.. which she begins masturbating. Which would just be the regular kind of disturbing, except she's been subtly implying that she's been deeply frustrated sexually for years the whole movie, and she shouts her husband's name and says "Oh, ''finally''!" as she climaxes to death.]]
* JumpScare: Of course.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Frank is self-righteous, stubborn, and apparently an alcoholic, and Laura had an affair that she claims resulted in Richard's (or Michael's) birth.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: [[spoiler: The black car and the Lady in White]].
* OrWasItADream: The films leaves us wondering if [[spoiler: Marion was dreaming the whole thing, or if she truly witnessed the downfall of her family]].
* JumpScare: Of course.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Frank is self-righteous, stubborn, and apparently an alcoholic, and Laura had an affair that she claims resulted in Richard's (or Michael's) birth.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: [[spoiler: The black car and the Lady in White]].
* OrWasItADream: The films leaves us wondering if [[spoiler: Marion was dreaming the whole thing, or if she truly witnessed the downfall of her family]].
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* OrWasItADream: The films leaves us wondering if
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:: With Frank's efforts with the stick failing to yield results, Richard takes it upon himself to reach in with his hand and retrieve a blood-drenched cellphone with a severed ear dangling from the antennae.
* PsychologicalTormentZone: And ''how''. All the characters are psychologically fucked with, especially Frank.
* PsychologicalTormentZone: And ''how''. All the characters are psychologically fucked with, especially Frank.
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%% ZeroContextExample: * PsychologicalTormentZone: And ''how''. All the characters are psychologically fucked with, especially Frank.
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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy [[spoiler:Though she knew she was pregnant beforehand.]]
* SpaceWhaleAesop [[spoiler:About falling asleep at the wheel]]
* StayOnThePath: Richard did ''not'' follow this. And later on when [[spoiler: Frank and Marion try this, they ''end up back at the same place on the road'']].
* [[spoiler: TheStinger: While it's assured at first that Marion simply had a traumatic nightmare following the death of her family at the titular dead end, the ending shows a Dr Marcott treating Marion in hospital, and then getting into the black car seen throughout the film when its driver offers her a lift home. It makes the ending a lot more MindScrew-like]].
** [[spoiler: A post-credits scene shows two clean up workmen finding Frank's bucket list, which he wrote in the dream.]]
* SpaceWhaleAesop [[spoiler:About falling asleep at the wheel]]
* StayOnThePath: Richard did ''not'' follow this. And later on when [[spoiler: Frank and Marion try this, they ''end up back at the same place on the road'']].
* [[spoiler: TheStinger: While it's assured at first that Marion simply had a traumatic nightmare following the death of her family at the titular dead end, the ending shows a Dr Marcott treating Marion in hospital, and then getting into the black car seen throughout the film when its driver offers her a lift home. It makes the ending a lot more MindScrew-like]].
** [[spoiler: A post-credits scene shows two clean up workmen finding Frank's bucket list, which he wrote in the dream.]]
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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy [[spoiler:Though she [[spoiler:While Marion already knew before the events of the film, she was reveals that she is pregnant beforehand.after Brad dies.]]
%% ZeroContextExample: * SpaceWhaleAesop [[spoiler:About falling asleep at the wheel]]
* StayOnThePath: Richarddid ''not'' follow this. [[spoiler:is killed when he goes off into the woods on his own.]] And later on when [[spoiler: Frank [[spoiler:Frank and Marion try this, to walk through the forest, they ''end end up back at the same place their car... except on the road'']].
other side of the road, somehow]].
*[[spoiler: TheStinger: While TheStinger:
** [[spoiler:While it's assured at first that Marion simply had a traumatic nightmare following the death of her family at the titular dead end, the ending shows a Dr Marcott treating Marion in hospital, and then getting into the black car seen throughout the film when its driver offers her a lift home. It makes the ending a lot more MindScrew-like]].
**[[spoiler: A [[spoiler:A post-credits scene shows two clean up workmen finding Frank's bucket list, which he wrote in the dream.]]
%% ZeroContextExample: * SpaceWhaleAesop [[spoiler:About falling asleep at the wheel]]
* StayOnThePath: Richard
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** [[spoiler:While it's assured at first that Marion simply had a traumatic nightmare following the death of her family at the titular dead end, the ending shows a Dr Marcott treating Marion in hospital, and then getting into the black car seen throughout the film when its driver offers her a lift home. It makes the ending a lot more MindScrew-like]].
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* [[spoiler: WhamLine: "He's not here for you."]]
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Averted with Marion, subverted with Richard.
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Averted with Marion, subverted with Richard.
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%% ZeroContextExample: * [[spoiler: WhamLine: "He's [[spoiler:"He's not here for you."]]
%% ZeroContextExample: * YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Averted with Marion, subverted with Richard.
%% ZeroContextExample: * YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Averted with Marion, subverted with Richard.
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* PokingDeadThingsWithAStick: Upon the discovery of Brad's corpse on the side of the road (that is kept entirely offscreen but the other characters treat as a horribly gruesome, shocking, and incredibly gross sight), Frank picks up a stick and pokes at the remains, prompting questions from Richard.
-->'''Richard:''' What is he doing?\\
'''Laura:''' He's trying to get Brad's phone.\\
'''Richard:''' ...With a stick!?\\
'''Frank:''' You got a better idea?
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-->'''Richard:''' What is he doing?\\
'''Laura:''' He's trying to get Brad's phone.\\
'''Richard:''' ...With a stick!?\\
'''Frank:''' You got a better idea?
:: With Frank's efforts with the stick failing to yield results, Richard takes it upon himself to reach in with his hand and retrieve a blood-drenched cellphone with a severed ear dangling from the antennae.
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[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deadend_6976.jpg]]
A 2003 French horror movie directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa.
On his way to visit his in-laws with his family on Christmas Eve, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with [[Film/DeadEnd1937 the 1937 crime film]] by Creator/WilliamWyler, or the Broadway play from which it was adapted. It is also distinct from the ''WebAnimation/DeadEnd'' web cartoon.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* AbandonedArea: The road is empty, except for a single shack full of what seems to be hunting/equestrian paraphernalia. [[spoiler: And there's only one other car.]]
* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler:The road continues infinitely, and attempting to walk off it just leads right back to it.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of the main characters, except Marion,[[spoiler: were killed in a car crash and implied to be mangled in horrific ways. The Lady in White is heard begging to be rescued at the other end of Laura's phone call, suggesting that she was trapped in the wreckage and slowly died.]]
** Along the road, [[spoiler: which might only be a dream]], the characters suffer cruel deaths as well. [[spoiler: Brad is mangled, Richard is burned alive, Laura suffers a traumatic head injury that leaves her brain exposed, and Frank somehow ends up hung from a tree. Even the baby is badly mangled.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: The end of the movie has Marion waking up in the hospital after the rest of her family died in a car crash after her father fell asleep at the wheel. And then there's TheStinger (though it doesn't necessarily contradict TheReveal).]]
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Part of the fun of the film is how ''obviously'' screwed these people are. If you're a fan of horror movies, the obvious configuration of a Perfectly Happy Family on Holiday Vacation who all fit [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools exaggerated stereotypes]] right off the bat is basically a glowing, neon sign that says "These people are going to die". The movie is really more about who these people really are.
* DontGoInTheWoods: The forest the road cuts through. [[spoiler: It's actually just a desolate SmallSecludedWorld that loops on itself in every direction, and leaving the road for the woods is a great way to die.]]
* EnemyRisingBehind: At various points, but the Black Car always drives past the survivors with the victim visibly trapped in the back, the audience usually sees it headlights-first behind somebody.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Richard thinks that all the watches stopping at 7:30 and the endless road means there is some alien activity going on which is not even remotely close to the truth. Later in the movie, Frank decides that the car must be on a military road, which is less entertaining, but still obviously wrong.
* GoingInCircles: The titular dead end. [[spoiler: There ''is'' no end to the road.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the deaths, except[[spoiler: Laura's.]]
* AHouseDivided: The family fractures the longer the trip goes on. [[spoiler: And in the end, Marion wakes up the only survivor of the wreck.]]
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler:Subverted with Amy, the dead baby carried by the lady in white, assuming she was ever really alive to begin with.]]
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Laura's is probably one of [[CrossesTheLineTwice most hilarious and most revolting]] ever put to film. [[spoiler: After getting the back of her skull chopped off, she reaches to investigate the wound and touches her exposed brain matter.. which she begins masturbating. Which would just be the regular kind of disturbing, except she's been subtly implying that she's been deeply frustrated sexually for years the whole movie, and she shouts her husband's name and says "Oh, ''finally''!" as she climaxes to death.]]
* JumpScare: Of course.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Frank is self-righteous, stubborn, and apparently an alcoholic, and Laura had an affair that she claims resulted in Richard's (or Michael's) birth.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: [[spoiler: The black car and the Lady in White]].
* OrWasItADream: The films leaves us wondering if [[spoiler: Marion was dreaming the whole thing, or if she truly witnessed the downfall of her family]].
* PsychologicalTormentZone: And ''how''. All the characters are psychologically fucked with, especially Frank.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Mostly lurks on the horror side, but bounces into comedy at unexpected moments.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy [[spoiler:Though she knew she was pregnant beforehand.]]
* SpaceWhaleAesop [[spoiler:About falling asleep at the wheel]]
* StayOnThePath: Richard did ''not'' follow this. And later on when [[spoiler: Frank and Marion try this, they ''end up back at the same place on the road'']].
* [[spoiler: TheStinger: While it's assured at first that Marion simply had a traumatic nightmare following the death of her family at the titular dead end, the ending shows a Dr Marcott treating Marion in hospital, and then getting into the black car seen throughout the film when its driver offers her a lift home. It makes the ending a lot more MindScrew-like]].
** [[spoiler: A post-credits scene shows two clean up workmen finding Frank's bucket list, which he wrote in the dream.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Masturbating and smoking pot while your family is lost in the woods is a good way to end up on the wrong end of the morality scale.]]
* [[spoiler: WhamLine: "He's not here for you."]]
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Averted with Marion, subverted with Richard.
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[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deadend_6976.jpg]]
A 2003 French horror movie directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa.
On his way to visit his in-laws with his family on Christmas Eve, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with [[Film/DeadEnd1937 the 1937 crime film]] by Creator/WilliamWyler, or the Broadway play from which it was adapted. It is also distinct from the ''WebAnimation/DeadEnd'' web cartoon.
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!!This movie provides examples of:
* AbandonedArea: The road is empty, except for a single shack full of what seems to be hunting/equestrian paraphernalia. [[spoiler: And there's only one other car.]]
* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler:The road continues infinitely, and attempting to walk off it just leads right back to it.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of the main characters, except Marion,[[spoiler: were killed in a car crash and implied to be mangled in horrific ways. The Lady in White is heard begging to be rescued at the other end of Laura's phone call, suggesting that she was trapped in the wreckage and slowly died.]]
** Along the road, [[spoiler: which might only be a dream]], the characters suffer cruel deaths as well. [[spoiler: Brad is mangled, Richard is burned alive, Laura suffers a traumatic head injury that leaves her brain exposed, and Frank somehow ends up hung from a tree. Even the baby is badly mangled.]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: The end of the movie has Marion waking up in the hospital after the rest of her family died in a car crash after her father fell asleep at the wheel. And then there's TheStinger (though it doesn't necessarily contradict TheReveal).]]
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Part of the fun of the film is how ''obviously'' screwed these people are. If you're a fan of horror movies, the obvious configuration of a Perfectly Happy Family on Holiday Vacation who all fit [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools exaggerated stereotypes]] right off the bat is basically a glowing, neon sign that says "These people are going to die". The movie is really more about who these people really are.
* DontGoInTheWoods: The forest the road cuts through. [[spoiler: It's actually just a desolate SmallSecludedWorld that loops on itself in every direction, and leaving the road for the woods is a great way to die.]]
* EnemyRisingBehind: At various points, but the Black Car always drives past the survivors with the victim visibly trapped in the back, the audience usually sees it headlights-first behind somebody.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Richard thinks that all the watches stopping at 7:30 and the endless road means there is some alien activity going on which is not even remotely close to the truth. Later in the movie, Frank decides that the car must be on a military road, which is less entertaining, but still obviously wrong.
* GoingInCircles: The titular dead end. [[spoiler: There ''is'' no end to the road.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the deaths, except[[spoiler: Laura's.]]
* AHouseDivided: The family fractures the longer the trip goes on. [[spoiler: And in the end, Marion wakes up the only survivor of the wreck.]]
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler:Subverted with Amy, the dead baby carried by the lady in white, assuming she was ever really alive to begin with.]]
* TheImmodestOrgasm: Laura's is probably one of [[CrossesTheLineTwice most hilarious and most revolting]] ever put to film. [[spoiler: After getting the back of her skull chopped off, she reaches to investigate the wound and touches her exposed brain matter.. which she begins masturbating. Which would just be the regular kind of disturbing, except she's been subtly implying that she's been deeply frustrated sexually for years the whole movie, and she shouts her husband's name and says "Oh, ''finally''!" as she climaxes to death.]]
* JumpScare: Of course.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Frank is self-righteous, stubborn, and apparently an alcoholic, and Laura had an affair that she claims resulted in Richard's (or Michael's) birth.]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: [[spoiler: The black car and the Lady in White]].
* OrWasItADream: The films leaves us wondering if [[spoiler: Marion was dreaming the whole thing, or if she truly witnessed the downfall of her family]].
* PsychologicalTormentZone: And ''how''. All the characters are psychologically fucked with, especially Frank.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Mostly lurks on the horror side, but bounces into comedy at unexpected moments.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy [[spoiler:Though she knew she was pregnant beforehand.]]
* SpaceWhaleAesop [[spoiler:About falling asleep at the wheel]]
* StayOnThePath: Richard did ''not'' follow this. And later on when [[spoiler: Frank and Marion try this, they ''end up back at the same place on the road'']].
* [[spoiler: TheStinger: While it's assured at first that Marion simply had a traumatic nightmare following the death of her family at the titular dead end, the ending shows a Dr Marcott treating Marion in hospital, and then getting into the black car seen throughout the film when its driver offers her a lift home. It makes the ending a lot more MindScrew-like]].
** [[spoiler: A post-credits scene shows two clean up workmen finding Frank's bucket list, which he wrote in the dream.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Masturbating and smoking pot while your family is lost in the woods is a good way to end up on the wrong end of the morality scale.]]
* [[spoiler: WhamLine: "He's not here for you."]]
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Averted with Marion, subverted with Richard.
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