 
A corporal named Tom
Hilts (Richard Tillman) goes on a search
to California to search for his brother
Jess (Joey Mendicino) who disappeared a
year ago with his girlfriend Nicole
(Julie Mond) and travels down an old
dusty highway with his girlfriend Marilyn
(Jessie Ward) where he was last seen
followed by his goofy friend Jared
(Graham Norris) who's driving behind him.
Jared needs to go to a pit stop and is
attacked by a yellow truck and then
suddenly Tom is kidnapped by the fellow
driving the yellow truck and next thing
you know Jared and Marilyn spots Nicole's
ghost as the two of them are realising
that they are facing supernatural forces.
This sequel still
keeps you glued to the set not wanting to
miss anything on what's going to happen
to anyone. Still it looked a bit rushed
since that is very common for most
sequels. Also they tried to make some
torturous moments psychological but it
lacked a bit and same with the hauntings
which didn't look convincing that these
people were ghosts but did act strangely
which seemed to make up for that.
This film borrowed alot from Hills
Have Eyes, Texas
Chainsaw Massacre, Jeepers
Creepers and Joyride.
However, they tried too hard to make it
look as spooky as these flicks but at
times it works. Other times it falls
flat.
The acting is in
good taste especially for the lead actor Richard
Tillman with a good serious attitude
as well as him getting aggressive and
tough when he needed to. He really
brought everything together with his
performance for this one and getting
right to the point with it all. A true
character actor he was.
Jessie Ward does well with her
bubbly attitude just not taking certain
things seriously as well as having a
tough as nails bitchy attitude too. I
liked how she portrayedf her part for the
story and deserves good credit for what
she did in it.
Graham Norris was quite a character
for this flick as a geeky type but
outgoing too. He brought a nice charm to
the plot of the film and proving himself
to be a worthy character actor like the
rest mentioned. He totally stood out as
far as I can see.
There's a good supporting actor named Steve
Railsback who plays a gas station
owner and does well by behaving strangely
and totally out of it showing that he's a
possible suspect to all the terrors
that's happening to anyone around the
area.
Holes are drilled
into people's bodies
Eyeballs are plucked out
Lots of blood
Shawn Papazian
offers some good suspense and horror for
this flick. There's a good moment with
supporting actor Joey Mendicino
in a trailer with the supporting cast
around him played by Diane Salinger
and Michael Childers acting
crazy towards him and torturing him to
death in which all of this looks truly
painful and disturbing.
We have many good shots on Richard
Tillman and Jessie Ward in
their vehicle with shots on them driving
along in the desert along with Graham
Norris following them and talking to
them on his walkie talkie acting like a
goofball with good obnoxious reactions on
Ward with some of the stuff he
says. The direction on this looked very
natural as people going on a journey to
find some lost people and the odd time
goofing around.
There;s good shots on tire plates and
liscense plated hung near a gas station
along with some tense dialogues between Tillman
and Steve Railsback which looked
creepy when Tillman tries to get
aggressive with him about a lost person
and Railsback is acting freaky and just
plain out of it like he was doped up.
We spot a nice dialogue between Tillman
and Ward in their hotel room
making out and then a nice shot on the
window with a vehicle shining a light on
them giving it a perfect spooky feel to
it.
There's a good shot on Norris in
an outhouse and a hand grabbing at him
when he tries to pick something up which
is a good jumping moment.
There's a good shot on him peeking
through a hole with a truck ready to
charge at him which looked suspenseful as
well as a nice shot on the truck knocking
over the outhouse with him tumbling over
which looked gross with the results.
There's a good shot on him going into his
car and suddenly Julie Mond appears
in the backseat almost giving it that
spooky type of feel to it.
We have a nice dialogue on a grassy field
between these two with her acting very
out of it and behaving very strangely
plus there's good shots on the two of
them making out.
There's a good shot on Tillman
tied up in a truck and getting aggressive
towards Brionne Davis as the
driver kidnapping him. There's also good
shots on the vehicle speeding along the
road.
There's a good moment with Norris
in a trailervan with supporting actors Gary
and Edmund Entin as two twins
sucking popsickles and Salinger
and Childers speaking crazily
towards him with nice scared reactions on
him which was well put together showing
that he's not in a safe position.
There's some nice close up shots on Tillman
being bolted down by Davis with
many good dark shots and a not too bad
painful reaction with Tillman
but at the same time the direction needed
a bit of work on as this was supposed to
look psychological and it misses. There's
nice struggling shots on Tillman
trying to remove the bolts from him and
yelling in pain which looked very
energetic from him.
There's a good dialogue between Tillman
when he finds his borther in a cage
played by Joey Mendicino acting
like a mental case which was nicely
directed and twisted looking too.
There's great shots on Ward tied
up crying as well as Davis
torturing Norris by plucking out
his eyeballs with great tense reactio9ns
almost making this hard to watch.
There's many sounds like a
guitar string trying to get wound up with
the right toning sounds. Plus there's
some bluesy violin music and guitar
playing too with the odd banging sounds
for the shocking moments all composed by Bear
McCreary.
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