ostrich...

maybe i give it credit because i expected it to be bad and it ended up being a fair slasher sort've horror. not great but watchable and overall satisfying.

a car phobic patient and her psychiatrist are taking a "journey" up to a mountain which the never make it to because the psychiatrist hits a hitchhiker with her car. she offers him a ride so he won't "call the cops" and, well, you pretty much know the story from there...if you didn't already figure it all out just by reading the back of the dvd box.

obviously the writers have never studied psychology/psychiatry nor given much of any thought to what those people do. its a questionable premise to start with. they bothered about enough to look up the term you'd call a person with a fear of cars. thats about the extent of their research here. take it all with a grain of salt. you'll have to take a number of other things as typical horror movie sloppiness but it doesn't get in the way to much of what the movie is ultimately about. like porn, the story has little to do with the action other than to be there enough for some semblance of beginning, middle, and end with a bit of dialog to make it seem "possibly real". the action then has to be good and really its not to bad. its surprisingly, given today's standards, not too much. tension, gore, fear, its all there. and yet we're beaten over the head with constant cringe inducing details of limbs being cut off and other shock slop. theres some but there is also time to breathe in between.

despite some bad dialog and unbelievable premise and characters, the worst thing about this movie is the pace. it strangely does not seem slow as a pace and yet it seems to take forever to get through this movie. meaning; scene by scene it feels right, but it take quite long to get through it all. that and some of the scenes, especially some of her stuck in the car, seem repetitious. how many damn times is she going to try opening the door, or opening and closing the window, or looking at the dead person in the car.

not too bad,worth a watch. it won't be a favorite.
(5/10)

5/10