According to RedBox the synopsis of the movie is as follows
When their car breaks down, a group of teenagers head to a nearby junkyard to salvage car parts. Little do they know that an insane serial killer has escaped from prison and is lurking in the area. As the teens are stalked and hunted down one by one, what was an innocent trip turns into a bloody all out struggle for survival.99% of this synopsis was wrong and honestly the script was so convoluted that I'm not entirely sure what was happening. The film starts out with two young boys, Wesley and Ricky, sitting on the couch watching tv. Their mom's boyfriend or pimp, still not sure, comes in and is a royal douchebag. The younger of the two boys, Ricky, shoots him and the older brother tries to get him to put the gun down, but the little boy fires again and shoots the mom. Flash forward to some odd number of years later and we find that a convict has escaped from prison and some lady has broken down on the side of the road. A guy goes to help her and like an idiot she goes back to his car, where he tells her that the sound a woman makes while having an orgasm is the same she makes when getting stabbed. She gets out, he chases her, he winds up dead.
We then have, what feels like, 2 hours worth of credits. I swear they were going to start putting the production's catering company up soon. Finally, after the credits we're introduced to what is supposed to be the 'teenagers' who are obviously in their mid-20s because one of them was a former soldier. The four (the former soldier/mechanic, his girlfriend *fiancee* that he's just proposed to, his best friend, Rick, one of two character's whose names I actually remembered, his best friend's pregnant girlfriend) are all going on trip somewhere, where I don't remember. Anyway, they decide to be idiots and drag race some rich kid, who obviously has the better car, and the car breaks down. Rich kid drives off, leaving them to have to walk the four miles to the nearest place for help. My first question is 'Why does no one have a phone?' It wasn't even like they tried and had no signal or the battery died. No, they never even got one out.
They walk and wind up at a junkyard at night when the friend starts playing target practice at some cars, when one of the bullets ricochets and hits the fiancee. The main guy/former soldier tells the others to stay with her while he goes to get help. He comes back later with an old sheriff, two deputies (one of which later goes to get back up), a paramedic and doctor in tow only to find out that the others are gone. There's some arguing back and forth before they split up to go look. The paramedic finds the pregnant girl dead and hanging by her feet high above the ground. While still trying to find the others they come across the relative of the junkyard's owner who makes Gomer Pyle look like Albert Einstein. Soon the killer strikes again, killing the deputy by stabbing him in the back and then hanging him. The others get to him before he's dead, but they aren't able to get him down before then. The doctor then attempts CPR in a way that makes me question the credentials of the medical school that allowed her to graduate, but of course it's too late and he's dead. The paramedic girl has gone missing, being found when the crusher is turned on. The old angry sheriff and the main guy manage to save her, but when they're walking back a hanging van falls on her.There's a minute or two of a shootout between the dumbass, main guy, and the killer who's wearing a welder's mask. They come across the friend who looks to be pretty beat up and get him sent off with the doctor. A man then appears carrying the fiancee, saying he had found her walking and that she needed to get to a hospital. The main guy and sheriff are of course wary of him, but they all pile in the cop car to head into town. There's a radio call that goes out again about the escaped killer from the beginning of the film, a man named Wesley that had been in prison for killing two people. The new guy stabs the sheriff in the leg and makes a run for it. Main guy chases after him and stabs him in the stomach. While he's dying the main guy asks him why he killed his friends to which he replies that he had never killed anyone.
We flash to the hospital where main guy and Rick are walking and talking, and main guy tells him about how he believed the last thing that the guy said. The girlfriend has a dream in which she sees Rick accidentally shoot his pregnant girlfriend after the main guy had gone off for help. After they visit her and the main guy goes out, Rick tries to kill her by suffocating her with the pillow, but main guy comes back in, having realized that Rick said something earlier that he shouldn't have known about one of the kills, and saves the fiancee. When he asks him why he did it, he pretty much gives a 'why not?' answer...in fact I think those might have been the exact words. The main guy knocks him out and the next scene we see is Rick in a padded room reading a letter about the death of his brother. We flash back to the opening scene with the two boys, but go further this time to see that the older brother had taken the blame for the shooting.
Does any of this sound like the synopsis that was provided? NO! First off they weren't teenagers. Second, there was no serial killer, the person who had escaped from prison/the person you are supposed to believe is the killer had only killed two people. Third, the 'teenagers' are not hunted down, in fact the only one that dies is the pregnant chick and we don't even see it. Then there's the whole scene at the beginning with the girl and the almost rapist, what was the point?
The one redeeming thing this movie had is that the acting from the main guy (Mike Irwin, who played the coma boyfriend on Everwood)and Rick (Aaron Paul, Jesse from Breaking Bad) wasn't actually half bad and they tried their best with the script that was provided them. The other actors are way too over dramatic and when the van is dropped on the paramedic she begins to fall to the ground before it even comes close to hitting her. The dialogue was at times so horrendous that not even Morgan Freeman and Tom Hanks could make it sound good. The kills aren't interesting and for a 'horror' film there just aren't enough, given that the cast suddenly grew from 4 to 6 plus the missing people and then later the convict. There should have been more than 3 kills, not including the kill of the escape convict, and we didn't even see one of the kills.
What more can I say about this movie, except for if you ever find it put it on the ground and drive over it...several times and when you think you've destroyed it as best you can...go over it one more time.
1 out of 5 stars
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