everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Captivating movie !

Blistering performances.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Just so we're clear right from the start, if your idea of a good chiller is to watch a whimpering dimwit huddled in the fetal position in the back seat of a BMW for pretty much the entire film's running time, you'll be over the moon with this awful mess. Not me.So where do I even start? Ah yes, the protagonist, of course. Weak female leads have always frustrated and annoyed me, double that for horror movies and then quadruple that for that weak female lead also being a certifiable imbecile. Penny is the absolute last person you would ever want to cross in a real-world survival scenario. She blubbers, she cries, she screams, she moans, she hurts herself and all while conveniently doing absolutely nothing any rational person would do in a life-or-death situation. Example? Homicidal lunatic following you with your car tire quickly losing pressure? Curl up in a ball and cry. Stuck in a car with a corpse? Make a half dozen mediocre efforts to break the windshield before giving up, curl up in a ball and cry. Helpful stranger runs down homicidal lunatic, you notice lunatic is still alive? Alert helpful stranger? Nope. Curl up in a ball and cry. I was grinding my teeth so hard I may have to go to the dentist and make sure my fillings are still intact.To make matters even more ridiculous (yes, really), Penny decides she's going to continue downing sedatives that leave her virtually catatonic for hours, allowing the lunatic to mess with her each time she wakes from her medically induced comas, somehow surprised that it has happened again each time. I finally really just wanted to see the useless twit die and I was deprived of that joyous moment. If it had been in there, this may have received a "3 out of 10". Alas, it was not to be.The movie itself is fairly standard slasher fare. You've got all the horror-isms like the creepy woods, the dark and stormy night, kids who think they may have heard a noise but then didn't, the obligatory useless flashlight, the creepy voice that is impossibly evil (was that seriously the Predator laughing?) and obviously the sprained ankle because obviously Penny isn't already as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike without being physically impaired on top of things.This mess gets a "2 out of 10" only because Mimi Rogers pulled off her character quite well. Too bad she wasn't around long enough to finally snap and put idiot Penny out of everybody's misery.

I don't think this film was bad but i don't think it was great either. It is something i quite enjoyed watching though, it does more or less just stay on the actors stuck in a car for a very big part of the film but surprisingly it was alright, i didn't know what to think when i first saw it but thought i would give it a go.I think many horror fans will like this film as it isn't exactly gory, it is a little dark (literally), it involves a weird person (always good for horrors). The film runs for just the right length, it didn't drag, stuff started happening rather quick, makes you want to watch it to the very end.I think it deserves a 6 / 10.

I was waiting for the suspense. I was waiting for any kind of "unexpected events". I waited for 90 or so minutes. I needn't have bothered. Some people found the dire awfulness of this movie funny. I wasn't even able to enjoy it for that...The movie begins with a vaguely reasonable premise; that this girl is travelling with her psychiatrist to help her finally get past her phobia of cars... But once that has been established, anything you can imagine happening next would be better than what this movie puts you through.-Stop at a gas station. "Help! I'm in a car, I can't carry on. Oh OK, I'll get back in." -Hit a pot-hole (twice). "Help! I'm in a car, I can't carry on! OK OK, let's carry on." -Clip a hitchhiker with the car. "Help! I'm in a car, I'm going to die! Oh OK, let's take the slightly creepy yet apparently harmless victim of hit-and-don't-run and drop them deep in the mountain forest where there's nobody else around. I don't mind" -The car has a flat tyre blatantly caused by harmless raw-meat-eating (but generous to offer to share it. Sweet psycho ^^) silent hitchhiker. "No, don't leave my in this terrifying car by myself to find signal for your phone! Let me take one step away before falling on nothing and spraining my ankle to make this into a -real- horror film!"And so on.There was so little to enjoy, especially as Penny spent so much of the time whimpering or screaming at the slightest noise. Perhaps she can be forgiven a little, as she spent half the movie sitting trapped in the evil car with a decaying Mimi Rogers (refering to her character's lifelessness. Mimi's not that bad), but her tireless stupidity was grating.I'm afraid, as this was even the area where Penny's parents died in the car accident all those years ago, that I was waiting for any kind of linking of the two events. Some kind of mystical correlation that could perhaps explain what happened when she was a wee girly. It never came. I feel robbed. Kinda. Oh well.

Did I see the same movie as the others?Girl is afraid of cars because parents dies in car accident. Her and her psychiatrist go out for a drive in the mountains. Hitchhiker gets hit by them. Hitchhiker stalks them. People die. That's pretty much about it.And it started so promising! I like Mimi Rodgers. I liked the cool intro with the credits. And the set up with the "fear of cars" felt pretty real. But the movie almost immediately begins to fall apart the moment we start to see repetitive actions that may be employed to fill the time slot of an hour and a half, to the point of ad nauseum.Let me give you an example. "Bad guy" stalks "Girl" that's trapped in the car. Girl screams for a total of 3 minutes and 42 seconds "somebody help me"!! Then she see's bad guy. Cheap special effects are employed, like a heart beat and a fast zoom in and out. 10 minutes later, we STILL are in this scene, separated only by another time filler until more murders begin. The gore is somewhat muted, and some of it silly. There's a sex scene in it which felt like they just HAD to do to make it compete with the rest of the movies we've seen for the last 40 years.Movies that take place in one specific location for long periods of time can be pulled off if done correctly. Saw did it. So did Phonebooth. But slasher movies are so boring when they follow the numbers, give no accent to the characters, and give you nothing more about the story then what you see on the screen. We should have gotten rid of this, what, 17 years ago sometime back in the 90's?Oh well, at least we got to see Michael Berryman, but in a useless cameo.