The unfortunate choice of cover for Deadline, for the US and international versions of the artwork, shows late actress Brittany Murphy dead or dying in a bathroom. The movie was released and on DVD at the time of her death, and so it was just sucky luck on all counts that this was the creepy image used.
First Look Studio, the independent studio behind the film, realised the issue and made changes. This includes yanking down posters on the side of Redbox kiosks and changing the DVD cover. The original art was slammed, before Murphy’s death, for misleading people about the amount of gore in the movie. This new cover probably isn’t any better to be honest, but at least now it’s less freaky.
Wow, I didn’t realize she was dead in the original cover, I just thought it was someone taking a bath in a spooky old tub. Even looking at it now it still just looks like her taking a bath, but then the image is pretty small. It was probably a good idea to take the covers down, though. Just the act alone will get attention for the DVD.
Thanks for the comment, William.
It’s a size that’ll fit and a bigger version is in the clickable gallery.
Like on most sites, all you need to do is click through for the larger image. 600 pixels is a lot/ too wide for most sites to fit on their front page… here’s image, in the size I found it.