Rest Stop is a straight to video horror flick I got from NetFlix. It looked like it would be a gritty, icky type film like The Hills Have Eyes, Saw, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It wasn’t quite up to par with those, which I didn’t really expect it to be, but still I was disappointed with the story overall.
Nicole sneaks away from home with her boyfriend to drive out to California. After some afternoon delight out in the woods, they stop at a rest stop out in the middle of the woods. Unfortunately for them, this is not a good place to stop and use the bathroom. Weird things start to happen, with first off, her boyfriend disappearing. Then some creepy guy in a truck keeps stalking her. A girl appears and then disappears, lots of blood oozes over the floors, and weird notes are written on the walls. She seeks refuge with a family in a Winnebago who ends up being even weirder than the guy in the truck. She just can’t seem to escape the rest stop and the guy in the truck, no matter what choose your own adventure path she takes.
Jaimie Alexander, the girl who plays Nicole, is an okay actress. She’s somewhat resourceful in her part, and she’s girl-next-door pretty enough to play a horror movie heroine. Everyone else is negligible, except the family in the Winnebago. They are People Under The Stairs creepy. If they were more of the movie, it would have been leaps and bounds better.
There is very little gore involved, and you really do keep wondering why in the world the dumb girl keeps coming back to the same rest stop, when she could just walk away? The plot just meanders about and doesn’t really conclude in any way. It’s like someone cut out everything that might have connected events together and just left the bloody parts. In fact, I had to hit the extras and read the boards at IMDB to just figure out what the heck went on and what was up with the rest stop and the guy in the truck. If, maybe, the director and writer had left a bit more explanation in I might have liked it a bit more, but with the cuts made to the film it’s impossible to follow.
Rating: 2 ½ Purrs
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- Media Kitten
- I'm just your normal 30-something that is pretty much obsessed with horror movies, reading as much as humanly possible, and painting and drawing as much as I can squeeze in between working my day job. I really like stories about the end of the world, but don't hold it against me. I love watching hockey. Sushi is super delicious. I am on a mission to watch as much Murder, She Wrote and Matlock as it takes so that my DVR thinks I am an old woman and starts recording Golden Girls. I'll watch movies of any kind, but I still can't figure out why Woody Allen still gets to make them. I'm not even that picky about what I read, but I am picky about what ends up in my library permanently. Oh, and I have a Mini Countryman with a Muppet fetish. His name is Gonzo. Say Hi Gonzo.
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