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Dead Island (series)
Dead Island is a zombie action-RPG game series created by Techland and published by Deep Silver, spanning Dead Island (2011), Riptide, Escape Dead Island, and Dead Island 2 (2023), known for melee combat, weapon crafting, and co-op play.
Dead Island 2
Dead Island 2: 2023 first-person action RPG by Dambuster Studios, published by Deep Silver, set in zombie-quarantined Los Angeles (HELL-A). Known for its FLESH gore system, decade-long four-studio development, Metacritic 73, and 2 million first-month sales.
Dead Island: Riptide
Dead Island: Riptide is Techland's 2013 stand-alone follow-up to Dead Island, set on the island Palanai, with imported characters, hub defense missions, and mixed Metacritic scores of 57-62.
Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys: San Francisco hardcore punk band formed 1978 by East Bay Ray, fronted by Jello Biafra until the 1986 breakup; known for Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables and the Giger poster obscenity case, touring since a 2001 reform without Biafra.
Dead Leaves (DEAD LEAVES)
Dead Leaves (デッドリーブス) is a 2004 Japanese animated sci-fi action film, Hiroyuki Imaishi's directorial debut for Production I.G and Manga Entertainment, following amnesiacs Pandy and Retro in a lunar prison break.
Dead Letter Office (album)
Dead Letter Office is R.E.M.'s first compilation album, released April 1987 on I.R.S. Records: B-sides, outtakes, and covers of Pylon, the Velvet Underground, Aerosmith, and Roger Miller, with the Chronic Town EP appended on CD.
Dead letter queue
Dead letter queue (DLQ), also called dead-letter topic or undelivered-message queue: a holding queue in messaging systems for messages that fail processing after their retry budget, expire, or cannot be routed, for inspection and redrive.
Dead Letters
Dead Letters is best known as the 2003 album by Finnish rock band The Rasmus, recorded at Nord Studios, Stockholm, featuring In the Shadows; the title also denotes albums by Sunshone Still, the band Deadletter, a PGP email study, and a Grateful Dead studies book.
Dead Like Me
Dead Like Me is a 2003–2004 Showtime comedy-drama created by Bryan Fuller, also known for Wonderfalls, about grim reapers in Seattle. Ellen Muth plays George Lass, an 18-year-old killed by a falling Mir toilet seat who becomes a reaper; two seasons, 29 episodes, plus a 2009 film.
Dead lithium
Dead lithium is metallic lithium in a battery anode that has lost electrical contact with the current collector, causing capacity loss in lithium metal batteries; it can be partly recovered.
Dead Mail (film)
Dead Mail is a 2024 American horror-thriller directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy, premiering at SXSW and TIFF. A blood-stained help note reaches dead letter investigator Jasper (Tomas Boykin), uncovering a kidnapping by synth-obsessed Trent (John Fleck); Shudder release April 18, 2025.
Dead mall
A dead mall is a shopping mall, usually an enclosed postwar suburban center, that has declined into high vacancy, low sales, or closure as shoppers move elsewhere.
Dead Man
Dead Man (1995), Jim Jarmusch's black-and-white anti-Western starring Johnny Depp as accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer as Nobody, premiered at Cannes, with a Neil Young score and Robby Müller cinematography.
Dead Man Down
Dead Man Down is a 2013 American revenge thriller directed by Niels Arden Oplev. It stars Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace in the New York City criminal underworld.
Dead Man Walking (film)
Dead Man Walking (1995) is Tim Robbins's death penalty drama adapted from Sister Helen Prejean's memoir, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn; Sarandon won the 1995 Best Actress Oscar.
Dead Man's Bones
Dead Man's Bones: Los Angeles indie duo of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields. One self-titled 2009 album on Anti- with the Silverlake children's choir, Halloween-themed songs, no second record.
Dead man's hand
The dead man's hand, also known as aces and eights, is a poker hand of two black aces and two black eights, linked to Wild Bill Hickok's 1876 death.
Dead Man's Shoes (2004 film)
Dead Man's Shoes is a 2004 British revenge thriller directed by Shane Meadows and co-written with star Paddy Considine, about an ex-soldier avenging his learning-disabled brother against a Derbyshire drug gang; a low-budget Warp Films cult classic.
Dead man's switch
A dead man's switch is a safety mechanism, also called a dead man's handle or pedal, that stops a machine when the operator releases it.
Dead Man's Wire
Dead Man's Wire is Gus Van Sant's 2025 true-crime thriller, starring Bill Skarsgård as Tony Kiritsis, who held mortgage broker Richard Hall hostage in Indianapolis in 1977 with a shotgun wired to his neck; premiered at Venice, released January 2026.
Dead Meat (YouTube channel)
Dead Meat is an American horror YouTube channel founded in 2017 by James A. Janisse, co-owned with Chelsea Rebecca, known for The Kill Count series, the Dead Meat Podcast, and over 7 million subscribers.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 American black-and-white comedy parodying film noir detective movies, directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin as private eye Rigby Reardon.
Dead metaphor
Dead metaphor: an expression once metaphorical that now counts as normal usage, e.g. family tree, deadline. Silk's two-statement analysis, Bowdle and Gentner's career of metaphor, Müller's sleeping/waking model, and evidence that dead metaphors can revive.
Dead Money (film)
Dead Money (2024) is an American crime thriller, originally titled Degenerate, directed by Luc Walpoth and written by Josh Wilcox. Emile Hirsch plays poker pro Andy, forced into a high-stakes game after a home game robbery; released September 13, 2024 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Dead Mountain
Dead Mountain (Перевал Дятлова, Pereval Dyatlova) is an eight-part 2020 Russian historical thriller series dramatizing the 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident, directed by Fedorovich, Nikishov, and Kostomarov, split into investigation and hiker story lines.
Dead of Night
Dead of Night (1945) is Ealing Studios' British horror anthology with four directors, a recurring-nightmare frame, and the famous Ventriloquist's Dummy segment; distinct from the 1977 Dan Curtis TV film, the 1981 Peter Haining book, and a 2017 PC game.
Dead of Summer (TV series)
Dead of Summer: 2016 Freeform supernatural horror drama by Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and Ian Goldberg, set at Camp Stillwater in 1989; 10 episodes, canceled after one season.
Dead of Winter (2025 film)
Dead of Winter is a 2025 action thriller directed by Brian Kirk, starring Emma Thompson as a widowed fisherwoman who rescues a kidnapped teenage girl in Minnesota.
Dead on arrival
Dead on arrival (DOA), also cardiopulmonary arrest on arrival (CPAOA), is a person found dead or with ceased heart or lung function at EMS or hospital arrival; diagnosis, prehospital death determination, and classification effects on survival statistics.
Dead or Alive (band)
Dead or Alive (デッド・オア・アライヴ), English pop band formed 1980 in Liverpool by Pete Burns; ex-Nightmares in Wax; Stock Aitken Waterman's first UK No. 1 with "You Spin Me Round" (1985); disbanded after Burns died in 2016.