 
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.
There's a good moment with Jess Hilts in a trailer with the strange family acting
crazy towards him and torturing him to
death in which all of this looks truly
painful and disturbing.
Many good shots on Tom Hilts and Marilyn in
their vehicle with shots on them driving
along in the desert along with Jared following them and talking to
them on his walkie talkie acting like a
goofball. The moment on this looked very
natural as people going on a journey to
find some lost people and the odd time
goofing around.
Good shots on tire plates and
license plated hung near a gas station
along with some tense conversations between Tom and the owner which looked
creepy when Tom tries to get
aggressive with him about a lost person
and the owner is acting freaky and just
plain out of it like he was doped up.
A nice discussion between Tom and Marilyn 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.
A good shot on Jared 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.
A good shot on him going into his
car and suddenly Nicole appears
in the backseat almost giving it that
spooky type of feel to it.
We have a nice discussion 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.
A good shot on Tom Hilts tied up in a truck and getting aggressive
towards the
driver kidnapping him. There's also good
shots on the vehicle speeding along the
road.
A good moment with Jared in a trailer van with two twins
sucking popsicles as well as the mother and father speaking crazily
towards him.
Some nice close up shots on Tom being bolted down by the driver with
many good dark shots but the scene needed
a bit of work on as this was supposed to
look psychological and it misses. There's
nice struggling shots on him trying to remove the bolts from him and
yelling in pain.
A good discussion between him when he finds his borther in a cage acting
like a mental case which was nicely
done and twisted looking too.
There's great shots on Marilyn tied
up crying as well as the driver torturing Jared by plucking out
his eyeballs
almost making this scene hard to watch.
Bottom line is that 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 (Tom Hilts) with a good serious attitude
as well as him getting aggressive and
tough when he needed to. Not too bad
painful reaction with him being botted down by the maniac driver. He looked very
energetic yelling in pain. 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 (Marilyn) 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 portrayed her part for the
story and deserves good credit for what
she did in it. Good obnoxious reactions on her with some of the stuff her fellow cast member
says.
Graham Norris (Jared) 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. Nice scared reactions on
him which was well put together showing
that he's not in a safe position during a certain scene when the terror strikes him. Great tense reactions when he's being tortured half to death.
There's a good supporting actor Steve
Railsback (The Owner) 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
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. |
