Dead Cert | |
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Directed by | Steven Lawson |
Written by | Steven Lawson |
Produced by | Ben Shillito |
Cinematography | James Friend |
Edited by | Jason de Vyea Wade Jackson |
Music by | Tim Atack |
Production companies | Black & Blue Films Raw Film Productions |
Distributed by | Momentum Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.5 million |
Dead Cert is a 2010 supernatural horror film written and directed by Steven Lawson.
Dead Cert is based on an idea by Garry Charles and Steven Lawson and written by Ben Shillito. Principal photography began in October 2009 and the film had a worldwide release in 2010. [1]
In 2011 Shout! Factory released Dead Cert on DVD and Blu-ray in Region 1.
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