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Dead End (2003)

I had to shorten this on my Letterboxd, so this is the full unedited review for the Blog which I now often neglect quite a bit. Gosh, this was either a Movie Gallery or Blockbuster rental, while also a film I can recall showing up often around 1 when I would fall asleep on any myriad of Showtime channels.  But since then, "Dead End" has sort of joined the annals of the ad-based streaming era. It popped up on Shudder so that was where I noticed it, but I bet Tubi will recommend it to you at some point if you have similar tastes to mine. If you tell me Wise and Shaye are husband and wife on a car ride to hell while witnessing a second car carrying off members of the family until they are later found dead, I would, of course, grab the popcorn and be giddy with excitement.  This is right up my alley. I live for this kind of plot. Does it sort of end predictably? Yeah, it does sort of give obvious clues.  Ray falling asleep at the wheel and the same road sort of give you that. But