A couple named Nicole
Carrow (Jamie Alexander) and Jess Hilts
(Joey Mendicino) are leaving Texas to
travel to Los Angeles so Nicole can
follow her dreams in order to be an
aspiring actress and suddenly nearly
crash into a yellow old truck driving
towards them in which Jess loses his cool
and nearly tries to start a fight with
the driver but the truck speeds away.
Then suddenly they take a shortcut and
stop at a rest stop as Nicole needs to do
her thing and the inside of it looks
gross and beat up. When she returns to
her vehicle both Jess and the vehicle is
gone and she is stranded. But then she
spots the truck who tries to kill her and
so she hides away in the rest stop hoping
that someone will come looking for her as
well as finding Jess in which she fears
that he might be dead.
There's also mysterious moments at the
rest stop which involves a strange woman
named Tracy Kress (Deanna Russo) whom is
throwing up blood and has been trapped
there. Plus, right when she thinks that
she is protected when an Officer in a
motorbike named Michael Deacon (Joey
Lawrence) arrives the vehicle runs over
his legs and the two of them are both
trapped in the rest stop with the killer
trying to trap them in as well as showing
Nicole a camcorder camera on what he did
to Jess whom was abducted by him.
There's
a good scene with both Nicole Carrow and Jess Hilts driving along the road and having a
conversation with a good surprise shot on
a truck charging towards them along with
many great suspenseful shots on both
vehicles swerving and getting out of the
way.
Many great close up shots with
the two of them stripping it off and
making out with one another.
There's good takes on a beat up old
washroom with gross shots on some toilets.
More good takes on Nicole trying to look for her boyfriend outside
realising it's deserted which looked very
well done and creepy like.
A good shot on her trying to
start up her car with a shot of the truck
zooming in and smashing it which looked
incredibly intense and suspenseful.
A nice moment with her talking on
a walkie talkie in an office of some sort
as she does well crying and asking for
help as well as uplifting emotions when
there's an answer in which she does well
by acting anxious about it all.
There's also a good shot on her running
away from the truck and then stopping and
cussing to the driver with a good dark
shot on the killer in the truck watching her
which looked powerfully done and then
there's a good change with her actions
after hear a recording from the truck
hearing what she was saying on the walkie
talkie and crying.
A good discussion between Nicole in a trailer mobile talking to the Mother who is
just not there at all and acting strange
as well as a shot on the one driving the
vehicle acting creepy and preaching along
with using obscenities which the
moments looked very twisted and giving
it a creepy feel that she hitched in the
wrong vehicle. There's a great anxious
moment with Nicole after she
spots something in the back of the mobile
and panicking to see what it is along
with a shot on her looking shocked and
then a close up shot on a deformed child staring at
her. We also spot a great close up shot
on the Mother spitting out her
words aggressively yelling whore towards Nicole character which looked very spooky.
A good scene with Nicole in the rest stop talking to Tracy Kress. There's a real perfect
camera shot on her trapped in a room as
well as her throwing up blood which
believeably looked gross on how it was
done.
A great panicked reaction with Nicole Carrow towards Officer
Michael Deacon in which the chemistry
looked great with someone paranoid on
what's happening and someone trying to
stay calm.
There's a great shot on Michael about to talk and a nice fast shot on the
vehicle running him over and then a good
shot on him lying on the ground with him
weakly calling to her as well as a good
close up shot on the vehicle running over
his legs which looked believeably
painful.
Many good conversations between the
two of them together in the rest stop
with him lying down speaking weakly in
pain to her and her sobbing when he tries
to convince her to kill him.
There's also a nice shot on her trying to reach her hand out of a hole in
the door of the rest stop and then a good
shot on the killers hand grabbing
her hand with her screaming to let him go
along with a good shot on his mouth
tasting her hand and then biting into it.
There's a great demand with Michael towards Nicole to kill him
and her holding onto his gun aiming it
towards him and weakly sobbing with him
screaming insults to her to kill him
which looked believeably intense.
Many great scene's with him running outside trying to dodge the truck
as well as her revenge plan by getting a
bottle of alcohol and planning to light
it. Plus there's a great shot on her
standing in the middle of the road with
the truck charging towards her while she
tries to light the thing which keeps your
eyes glued to the set wondering if she
will be successful.
Bottom line is that this is a very strange
film which borrow alot from other
millenium types of horror films like Joyride
and the remake of Texas Chainsaw
Massacre along with a touch of Saw
with the evil characters surrounding this
rest stop. It doesn't explain itself but
yet the film is incredibly mysterious
which amkes you wanting sequels so then
the story eventually stretches out on who
these people are and they are not exactly
alive to top it all off.
There's great gross locations on the rest
stop which doesn't make you want to do
your thing no matter how bad you need to
go.
Plus the film is a bit psychological
about you stopping in the middle of
nowhere to go to the washroom and then
there's others watching and next thing
you know your vehicle is destroyed and
you have nowhere to run or anyone
rescuing you for that matter with a
killer truck always harrassing you to
near death if you step out of the
washroom.
It definetely is a good look at a moment
of survival and strange ghostly
encounters too on people who were missing
since like 1971 too which boggles you as
to why they're atill around the rest stop
freaking out and acting like a basket
case.
If you like unsolved horror mysteries
then you for sure would want to check
this out as it was very well done and
made in a terrifically creepy fashion
too/
The acting is
perfectly well done as it mainly focuses
one one actress throughout the story for
the most part which is Jaimie
Alexander (Nicole Carrow) and took the challenge to
what she had to do very well as she
really knew how to act emotional as well
as sobbing and getting creeped out too.
She was great with her screaming rages
too acting tough when she needed to be. I
mean she had it all for this film and
deserves alot of great credit. Nice grossed out expressions on her face while going into a grungy washroom. She does well
by acting anxious when trying to call for help on a walkie talkie after what goes on around her. Does well screaming in
pain after her hand is bitten.
Then we have a supporting role by former
TV Blossom teen idol
Joey Lawrence (Officer
Michael Deacon) as I never found him
to be a very good actor but watching him
in this film really made me change my
mind. Hey he was very young when he
started out his acting career. I think he
was only 5 years old so he had alot of
practise to portray other types of roles
as he played a great police officer by
having a great calm attitude and really
focusing at what he had to do. He also
does great when he speaks weakly in pain
after what happens to him along with a
great aggressive attitude close to the
end of his performance. He proved himself
a worthy character actor after all the
years I've seen him in other shows.
There's a nice speacial appearance by Deanna
Russo (Tracy Kress) as a ghostly one in a room at
a rest stop who knew how to act
incredibly tense fist speaking softly and
then going into a screaming rage when she
gets terrified. She really knew how to
change her actions incredibly well. She has
a good cold reaction in a certain scene along with her
acting freaked out after hearing the roar
of the truck.
There's another special appearance by Diane
Salinger (The Mother) as an evil eccentric one
riding in a trailer mobile who does well
with how she speaks showing that she is
not all there and incredibly strange too.
Even if her performance was about 5
minutes long she really drew your
attention.
Also, there's another appearance by Michael
Childers (The Father) driving the
mobile in which he shows a great nasty
and obnoxious attitude in which he was
another perfect horror character in the
film. He came across clearly that he's
not a safe person to be around.
There's a good close up
shot on Jaime Alexander's breast
during a make out scene outside in the
middle of nowhere.
There's a butt shot in a distance by Joey
Mendicino while about to take a whiz
outside.
Holes are drilled
into people's bodies
A blade is cutting a person caught on
camera
A persons fingers are bit off
A persons head is blown off with blood
and bits of brains flowing out
Someone throws up gobs of blood
A guys head is bloodily bashed
Lots of blood
There's many sounds like a
guitar string trying to get wound up with
the right toning sounds for the creepy
moments mainly surrounding the truck.
There's also metal scraping sounding with
the loud bangs too for the jumping
moments. To top it off there's some
peaceful flute music during certain
dialogues in the movie all composed by Bear
McCreary. Tio top it all off he has
some fine violin music for the closing
credits. |
