Deadline (1980 film)

Deadline is a 1980 Canadian horror film directed and co-written by Mario Azzopardi and starring Stephen Young and Sharon Masters.

Cast

Stephen Young as Steven Lessey
Sharon Masters as Elizabeth Lessey
Marvin Goldhar as Burt Horowitz
Jeannie Elias as Darlene Winters
Cindy Hinds as Sharon Lessey
Phillip Leonard as Philip Lessey
Tod Woodcroft as David Lessey
Bev Marsh as Martha Lessey

Release

The earliest known verifiable listing of the film's release year is in the publication Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis, copyrighted in 1982; in it, the film's release year is listed as "1980?". Home video distributor Vinegar Syndrome lists the film's release year with more certainty as 1980. Several other sources list the film's release year as 1980. In a 1985 volume of The Motion Picture Guide, the film's release date is listed as 1984. However, according to Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature, published in 1997, the film was released in 1979.

Home media

The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Vinegar Syndrome in March 2020.