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Hell's Highway

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This is obviously a low budget movie, but the acting is actually pretty good, and the story is entertaining. It is not for the squeamish! Lots of outlandish stuff, like intestines being pulled out of victim's bellies, chain saw action, etc. But the characters are so compelling that it comes across as more Saturday Night Live than Chain Saw Massacre. One really great scene involves all the characters suspensefully standing around waiting for a pager to beep, with quick closeups of faces and different angles, obviously pantomining a scene from the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly--what a hoot! This is a GREAT audience film.

HELL'S HIGHWAY is another brilliant low-budget film from the makers of GOTH. Lucinda (Phoebe Dollar) is a hitchhiker who is far more than she appears to be. She is an unstoppable, murdering force without any sense of right or wrong. Lucinda, though human in appearance, is a demonic spirit of certain death! She is picked up by four unsuspecting college kids, and procedes to unravel their sanity and their lives in several relentless, blood-soaked attacks! Premo stuff! Also Available on DECREPIT CRYPT OF NIGHTMARES...

An enjoyable gorefest, with bad acting, but a cool story. I recommened it for low budget crazy movies.

This movie is strictly for connoisseurs of ultra low-budget gore films. If you enjoy watching multiple disembowelings, decapitations, and people getting their eyes shot out then this is definitely your cup of tea. I think the makers of this film were shooting for a cross between "Blair Witch" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and they came up with something senseless, unique, and beautiful! Lots of silly dialog, bizarre scenes, gratuitous nudity, a funny surprise ending, and GORE, GORE, GORE! I thought it was pretty entertaining...

Ok, once again, this is one of Brain Damage's biggest sellers. This is definetly a movie for those who like the low budget B-flix genre. This is a blood soaked movie from beginning to end. Not only does it have some one the best killing senquences, it also holds the best "Get Busy" lines in any movie. And not to mention to people drinking beer while "getting busy." If you enjoyed this movie, i also recommend Terror Toons, Death Factory, Carnage, Hollywood Vampyr, and Goth.

Enjoy

The following things were bad about this movie.. "ACTING" ..ok i dont expect any of the actors in a b-movie to get any nominations but, the acting here is porno bad! "SETS & EFFECTS" ..there werent many sets because the film takes place on a highway. That has me asking why the gas station that Ron Jeremy runs his car into looked like cardboard..? Other than that there where some unique effects. "EDITING" ..its hard to explain why some scenes were used but, I can only conclude that the editors were sure that no one would see the movie. "STORY & SCRIPT" ..more absurd than you could ever imagine. "DIRECTION" ..the director allowed all of the above to take place so enough said!! This is the last time I believe what I read on a dvd case as far as critic's praising a movie. There are about 5 quotes from different reveiwers.. none of them had I ever heard of and, now I know why.

This movie was creepy and fun! I got a bruise where my wife was squeezing my arm. The humor mixed well with the horror and the pretty young things running for their lives was a blast.

"Hell's Highway" is about a a group of people who go on a road trip and pick up a girl hitchhiking. The girl looks fine and acts normal for a moment or two, but then it becomes clear that this hitchhiker is bad news. Mayhem ensues from this point onward. I guess this could have been a decent movie, but it is too over the top, and while I've seen worse acting for sure, the execution of this movie left a lot to be desired on every level. The fact that it does not take itself seriously enough is a drawback and the reasoning behind the movie's rash decision to take things over the top with ridiculous kills, terrible gore and almost comedic scenes. This kills any horror that the film was trying to create. I would skip this one because it really is garbage, but I feel like with a little bit of atmosphere, suspense and a steadier hand, this movie could have been more than it was.

I got this in a pack of 4 DVDs for 5 bucks. Four college students pick up a hitchhiker who starts messing them up. They kill her and she comes back. Turns out there were 4 clones of her, all of whom meet their demise. It had some gore and nudity, but little else to recommend it.

The secret to making a good low-budget horror movie is to revel in the low-budget goodness of what you're doing - and that is exactly what director Jeff Leroy does in Hell's Highway. Yes, there are some mistakes that could and should have been fixed (for instance, one close-up shot of the driver of a parked car shows the background scenery moving behind him as if he were driving), but there's no artsy-fartsy attempt to make this look like anything more than it is (for one thing, it's shot on film). The blood and gore is obviously fake - but there's so much of it you can't help but love it. The acting is over the top - but consistently so - and Leroy came pretty close to hitting a home run with his casting of Phoebe Dollar as Lucinda, the hitchhiker from hell - a superb blend of gothic hotness and gleeful evil. If I'm ever stabbed to death or hacked up with a chainsaw by some homicidal maniac, this is just the type of girl I would want on the other end of the killing instrument. The plot is another point in this movie's favor, as its foundation of clichéd predictability plays out at a nice pace and features a last-minute twist that actually works out for the good. The average mainstream viewer probably won't like anything about this movie at all, but Hell's Highway has much to offer fans of low-budget horror. Indeed, this movie was tailor-made for all of us sick and twisted freaks who love our blood and gore cheap and hilariously made.

According to legend, a young pioneer woman on the brink of starvation called upon and received Satan's aid - now, she walks the road of "Hell's Highway," claiming additional souls for her infernal master. The two young couples who stop to offer a ride to a hitchhiker know nothing of this story - until Lucinda tells it as she proceeds to assault one of the girls. Her open threat to kill everyone in the car takes on the air of a supernaturally fated certainty as the terrorized couples continue to encounter her time and time again - even after they're sure they've put an end to her once and for all. In between these encounters, Lucinda keeps herself busy ambushing and killing other drivers on the road, including Ron Jeremy.

I enjoyed the whole Hell's Highway ride, but it is the ending that impressed me the most. It's not exactly mind-blowingly original, but it does make for an effective twist that even provides an explanation for what I had originally thought to be a pretty major goof by the director. Low-budget horror fans should definitely check this movie out.