Deadline makes an ending sound like a demand rather than a resolution. For a horror viewer, the useful question is how that pressure is distributed: does the urgency belong to a character, to the editing or to information the audience has received ahead of the people on screen? Notice the moments when a scene permits delay. A pause can deepen suspense if it changes what is at stake, but it can also expose the difference between a promised crisis and the practical business needed to reach it.