Dead End

Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, 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.

2003 horror movie directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa, can be found on IMDB here, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308152/

Tropes used in Dead End include:

• Abandoned Area
• A House Divided
• Cruel and Unusual Death
• Dead All Along
• Developing Doomed Characters
• Don't Go in The Woods
  • Stay on the Path
• Enemy Rising Behind
• Fantastic Aesop About falling asleep at the wheel
• Final Girl
• Going in Circles
• Gory Discretion Shot & Take Our Word for It, by your powers combined, I am Narm
• Infant Immortality Subverted
• Jump Scare
• Offscreen Teleportation
• Or Was It a Dream?
• Psychological Torment Zone
• Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Mostly lurks on the horror side, but bounces into comedy at unexpected moments.
• Someone to Remember Him By Though she knew she was pregnant beforehand
• Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
• Too Dumb to Live 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
• Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb