I posted this on a LOST message board and no one knew what I was talking about or could they identify it. Maybe, some film buff in here will make the connection.
A few years ago I watched this British movie called "DEAD END" which was aired in 2003. The movie reminds me a lot of the plots and twists in LOST. Without giving out the "Twist" ending, I think the writers of LOST modified this movie and changed it from a "car" to a "plane". There are freakish similarities to be found if you watch the movie "Dead End"
Here's an excerpt from IMdb:
For the past 20 years, Frank Harrington has grudgingly driven his family to celebrate Christmas with his mother-in-law. This year, he takes a shortcut. It's the biggest mistake of his life: The nightmare begins. A mysterious woman in white wanders through the forest, leaving death in her wake. A terrifying black car - its driver invisible - carries the victims into the heart of the night. Every road sign points to a destination they never reach. The survivors succumb to panic, to madness; deeply buried secrets burst to the surface, and Christmas turns into a living hell.
Imagine driving down a long, desolate road. No turn-offs, no stores, no houses, just a straight road leading no where. you pass the same signs again and again. If you try to go on foot into the woods, you'll just end up on the road back at your car. Your family begins going mad. Getting picked off one-by-one by something. There's no escape.
If anyone can find a more detailed plot or script for "Dead End" please forward me the link, or if you've actually seen the movie let me know what you think.
Thats the guy who is President Logan's vice pres on 24.
Dead End
OPENS FRIDAY 12th DECEMBER
Three out of Five stars
Running time: 85 mins
Standard horror fare, enlivened by a witty script and a good performance from Ray Wise.
Despite a long career as a character actor, Ray Wise is still best remembered for his astonishing role as Leland Palmer (Laura’s dad) in Twin Peaks. Belatedly, he appears to have decided to cash in on his iconic horror status and Dead End is the second of two recent horror flicks to capitalise on his talents. (The other is the decidedly rubbish Jeepers Creepers 2 and Wise and his Big Old Harpoon were the best things in it by a country mile).
Family Get-Together Fails To Materialise
Co-written and co-directed by first-time French directors Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa, Dead End takes place on Christmas Eve and stars Ray Wise as family man Frank Harrington, who is driving his wife Marion (Lin Shaye) and two kids, stoner brat Richard (Mick Cain) and gorgeous Daddy’s girl Laura (Drop Dead Gorgeous), to a family get-together at his in-laws’ house.
However, after deciding to take a short cut along a forest road, things start to seem odd when the town mentioned on the road signs never seems to get any closer.
And if that wasn’t bad enough, the appearance on the road of a mysterious woman in white sets off a chain of increasingly nasty events…
Predictable But Creepy
The acting is excellent. Ray Wise has his beleaguered, slightly creepy family man act down pat by now and it’s put to good use here. Holden is good, too, and almost certainly has a bigger career ahead of her – at the moment, she’s best known as Bruce Willis’ Daughter Who Dated Ross in Friends.
It’s also nice to see Lin Shaye doing something other than be memorably repulsive in Farrelly Brothers movies and Mick Cain can presumably expect the offers of Stoner Teen Brat parts to now come flooding in, since the dark, witty script gives him most of the best lines.
The story is somewhat hampered by having a plot that will only come as a surprise to someone who has never seen a horror movie before. In addition, the effective ‘lost in the forest’ element was exploited much better by this year’s Wrong Turn – indeed, some of the shots of the long straight road through the forest could almost have been lifted directly.
That said, it’s genuinely creepy in places and is a perfectly watchable, if entirely predictable little shocker. Worth seeing, at least until Wrong Turn comes out on video.
Oh yeah, that explains the white woman in the road.
Hmmm, I don't know, stuff like that is fun to think about, but I think they are really on the Island, and that everyone there is real, etc.
Cept for Hurley's projection, and maybe Jack's dad. Other than that, I think it's all in "the real world".
Seems to me that the Dharma group started something there, and found something, or dug up something that was over there heads. They were researching all kinds of whacky stuff. Whatever they discovered, it overwhelmed them and they quaranteened the Island. Or along those lines.
Whidden said this in post #5 : Oh yeah, that explains the white woman in the road.
Hmmm, I don't know, stuff like that is fun to think about, but I think they are really on the Island, and that everyone there is real, etc.
Cept for Hurley's projection, and maybe Jack's dad. Other than that, I think it's all in "the real world".
Seems to me that the Dharma group started something there, and found something, or dug up something that was over there heads. They were researching all kinds of whacky stuff. Whatever they discovered, it overwhelmed them and they quaranteened the Island. Or along those lines.
maybe that's why *henry* says that "even God can't see the island." maybe dharma is such a powerful agency that they can erase an entire island, like how the witness protection program can erase a person from existence.
maybe that's why *henry* says that "even God can't see the island." maybe dharma is such a powerful agency that they can erase an entire island, like how the witness protection program can erase a person from existence.
Well, it does kinda explain the woman in the road but also if the island existed in someone's mind it could also be a metaphor for something else.
Jack's Dad and Hurley's friend Dave seem to stem from their past lives (or memories) I also keep in mind that the back stories we see are all the memories of the plane crash survivors. What really happened we don't know yet until they get back to civilization. I have doubts that we are looking at them from the real world sometimes.
Then it would seem just like the movie "Dead End" where the people inadvertently or intentionally crossed paths and they are stuck in their subconscious and manifest as other characters on the island.
The Dharma Experiment could actually be a hospital (or institution of sorts) in the reality of the viewers but it may not even exist at all.
I dunno, everything so far has been explainable, logically, with the exception of Kates horse on the Island, and Jacks dad walking around, and the visons that Locke sees, and Locke walking around and stuff.
And Walt making birds appear.
Hi ca-rumba! There is a bunch that don't make sense.
The only thing I would say is that it would make the audience mad if it was a dream, or a group hypnosis or the Matrix, or anything that was a mind fantasy.
This far into it, I think they want something tangible.
They would picket ABC with clubs and torch's and storm the castle.
Whidden said this in post #8 : I dunno, everything so far has been explainable, logically, with the exception of Kates horse on the Island, and Jacks dad walking around, and the visons that Locke sees, and Locke walking around and stuff.
And Walt making birds appear.
Hi ca-rumba! There is a bunch that don't make sense.
The only thing I would say is that it would make the audience mad if it was a dream, or a group hypnosis or the Matrix, or anything that was a mind fantasy.
This far into it, I think they want something tangible.
They would picket ABC with clubs and torch's and storm the castle.
Whidden said this in post #8 : I dunno, everything so far has been explainable, logically, with the exception of Kates horse on the Island, and Jacks dad walking around, and the visons that Locke sees, and Locke walking around and stuff.
And Walt making birds appear.
Hi ca-rumba! There is a bunch that don't make sense.
The only thing I would say is that it would make the audience mad if it was a dream, or a group hypnosis or the Matrix, or anything that was a mind fantasy.
This far into it, I think they want something tangible.
They would picket ABC with clubs and torch's and storm the castle.
Well you have a good point Whidden. If it was some silly dream, coma, or Matrixy fantasy that would totally suck.
I'm for the torching and tarring and feathering of the writers if they do ANY of the above.
Since they have gone so far iwith the tangibles, whatever they got coming better be good. I've already used up whatever is left of my suspension of disbelief.
For what it's worth, if you can get your hands on the DVD of "Dead End" it's worth taking a look at. It's a creepy movie.
I might watch it, I don't usually go for horror movies, I feel sorry for the victims, but I like that actor that plays the driver, he is on 24 as the vice president, so I might check it out if I see it at the Video store.
L.S.
