Customer Reviews

Rest Stop: The Collection

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I thought Rest stop and rest stop 2 were both good horror movies. but not great. the first rest stop starts with a young couple going to California to be movie stars. when the girl stops at a rest stop her boyfriend disappears and a mystery truck appears bothering her throughout the movie, along with a crazy traveling family in a van who are religious fanatics.the couple in the winnabago van have crazy twin sons and a son that's a deformed dwarf that keeps taking pictures of people with a 1970's poloroid camera!. I think this crazy religious family is a great add on in the movie. they torment the girl like the guy in the yellow truck do. the second rest stop movie centers on the older brother of the first boy that was killed trying to look for his brother with his girlfriend and dorky friend-who has the hots for the girl in the first rest stop. I thought this rest stop was ok too because it told how the origin of the guy in the yellow truck began along with that crazy religious family. all in all I would recommend these two horror flicks especially if you liked the first rest stop!

Dead Ahead & Don't Look Back. Yes, it was nice having them both contained in one neat package. But, saving on shelving space aside, not that great as movies go. Both were riddled with stupidity and cliches (as advertisements for cell phones; not a good deal, they never work in horror movies). And I still say, hiking out was the best option since the area the ghosts roam wasn't that expansive. Instead, the victims stubbornly stayed close to home, one getting drunk in the bargain!
The first movie didn't work because the two main characters were annoying creeps, I was waiting for them to be dispatched as quickly as possible, unfortunately, they didn't go quickly. Making me suffer. (If I had to witness one more quick change emotion from that lousy actress I was going to scream! She was literally all over the place.) It also didn't help that the music was too loud and just as obnoxious. Low budget all the way, surprising because of the claim that the writer/executive producer of the TV show Supernatural had control of both films. Not a good recommendation for the TV show. (One presumes he did these movies because they allowed him to use nudity.)
Okay, yes, there were a couple of BOO moments that made me jump. That does not a good horror film make, there's more to it than that.

I will say liked the second film slightly more, mostly because of the new cast. Everything didn't rest on one person in the second. As for the motorhome family...character types no one bothered to flesh out. Tedious, but brief; I couldn't take a whole movie of just them. Their appearence in both films, while necessary to the plots, was jarring to say the least. Base comedy tends to detract rather than aid a story; it not only slows things down, it diverts the action causing the movie to stall.
Needless to say, not keepers (didn't mind seeing them, but I wouldn't want to see them again).

If you love slasher-horror movies these aren't bad flicks. A teen couple runs away from Texas to California. They stop along the way and have sex (nudity plus body double). They are espied by a man in an old pick up truck, the deadly scourge of horror movies. On a back road they stop at a rest stop with filthy restroom. When the woman exits the restroom, her boyfriend and his car are gone. No bars on the cell phone. There are some strange supernatural things going on too as well as a family of religious nuts riding around in a Winnebago type. The driver instructs our lady to "read the Bible" then quotes a bunch of stuff about various angels who are NOT mentioned in the Bible. This of course grates on my pet peeve is that the people who always tell others to read the Bible don't do so themselves, because if they did they wouldn't be handing out that advice so freely.

The second movie clears up the supernatural plot points of the first one. More sex and nudity in the second one except the cute blond doesn't need a body double.
Sex, nudity, blood, torture, eyeballs ripped out.

My Walmart had this in the $5.00 bin.

Looks at first glance as a standard teeny bobber horror flick but i was impressed on the actual amount of suspense and gore that both films offered. The 2nd installment takes off right where the 1st one left off.. good for a sit down night of gore and blood!

I love horror movies, and these two Rest Stop movies are among my favorites. Just the right amount of gore, shock, action, and story. Unlike most horror movies I have seen recently, I actually cared about the characters in both movies. The supernatural aspect was the icing on the cake, as person-on-person violence really isn't my thing. I hope others out there enjoy these two flicks as much as I did.

realy a great movie i relly liked it!this is the a good horror movie for your collection thanks amazon for making this a fun time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The concept it unoriginal with getting stranded in the middle of nowhere, the dead cellphone, the broken car, the creepy run down hotel/gas station feeling. Some of the kills are interesting and intense, but nothing extremely mind-bogglingly good. Its worth a watch. The second movie clarifies some things that were left ambiguous in the first, but again, not very original. Its entertaining (the first one more-so than the second) but there are many other movies that I would rather rewatch.

...for something completely pointless, aka this double gift-pack.
every cliche from TEXAS CHAINSAW to WRONG TURN is stuffed into this
silly excuse for cinema. Wanna pour your money down the sewer, fine;
they can use the footage as a plot device for the direct-to-video
follow up. Maybe it's being filmed at the moment, during the 3D-
IMAX regurgit-- sorry, revival.