Good concept, poorly executed.

Better Late Then Never

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

We launch our story with a camera-eye recollection, wherein a little boy quietly witnesses a sloppy kitchen-table hump starring his slatternly mother and some random strong-arm she likely picked up on her nightly stroll of the docks. He overreacts slightly to this, and proceeds to slay them both.Flash to present day...our now-adult(and physically very imposing) killer has spent the passing years in a maladministered sanitarium, and is deemed such a 24-karate psychopath that he is feared by the staff and kept in constant seclusion. Following his predictable escape, he stalks a pretty B-movie starlet on the set of an in-production sci-fi epic, leaving a bloody trail of victims in his wake. Will the imperiled girl be saved by her repentant two-timing husband? Probably.This really isn't a movie so much as it is a noxious deposit of aesthetic waste by-products disembogued by untalented and delusional film-industry parvenus. With that being said, FREEWAY MANIAC is also a priceless paragon of unpremeditated hilarity, one of the cheapest and most inexpedient integrants to the 80s slasher canon. It has a sizable body-count, with several of the murder scenarios curiously inferring a veneration of the killer and a latent applause for his pernicious crusade. Somehow, this antagonist pep-rallying comes off more silly than sick, suggesting a flippant tongue-in-cheek to the entire project.Individuals of a schlock-mongering countenance will probably squeal with flurried excitation upon viewing this...no-nonsense types, on the other hand, may assent to earning their Hari-Kari wings before the closing credits roll.5/10

Well, no need to beat about the bush, this is probably one of the worst films I have ever seen. Everything looks so false that it made me laugh (literally)... Most of what happens in this 'film' is simply ridiculous. For instance, in the asylum where the psycho is confined, one of the watchmen is explaining to a new recruit that the cell he is going to open contains the most dangerous madman he has ever seen. However that does not seem to bother him since he opens the door without any caution. Of course the psycho escapes as he was apparently hiding behind the door with a chair !!!(yes this crazy killer has furniture in his room and even a telly !!!) After having murdered one or two guards, the man finally escapes the asylum by jumping from a tower and landing on a guard's belly... That was probably one of the funniest scene from the whole film. Other than that, the film is full of inaccuracies and incoherence: The desert where most of the film within the film is set is probably the most crowded desert I have ever seen (you have of course the film cast and crew, but also campers, a sheriff, a carpenter, an old lady (interpreted by a young woman whose way of acting reminded me of Steve Urkel from Family Matters...), young lovers, and so on); the psycho slaughters half of the crew but no one seems to care for those who have disappeared; the killer kills someone with plastic bear claws !!!; no one notices the killer's presence despite his uncommon lack of ability for hiding, and so forth. In short, this film is a real disaster but as funny as Hell.

Very rarely there is a movie that comes along that makes you question the meaning of life, love, and the universe. This is one of them. I was lent this movie by my B-movie loving ex-military history teacher a while back.It took me 2 whole weeks to get through it.I had to watch it in installments of 10 minutes, any longer and the pressure on my brain would have caused me to undergo a massive cerebral hemorrhage. It is just that horrifyingly, stomach-turningly bad. An example: A black guy gets killed at the start of the movie. Halfway through they bring him back to life. Why? They couldn't afford more than one actor to play a black racial stereotype (however, there are, interestingly enough, about 5000 Hispanic extras). There are punch sound effects for about 50% of the punches.The worst thing about the movie is not the production values though, it is the way each killing is seemingly justified. To paraphrase:FAT WHITEBREAD TRAILER TRASH IN BAD PLAID SUIT SECONDS BEFORE HE GETS KILLED: (putting a small dog on the ground) Boy, Lucky, I sure hope that Wilma forgives me for losing all our money at the races. HELLSPAWN DOG: WOOF. TRAILER TRASH: (getting his fat lardy neck strangled) arrgh.It gets worse. Much worse. In fact, the only way you can grasp the sheer enormity of it is by watching it. So, go rent a copy of "THE FREEWAY MANIAC". It's the best $1.50 rental since "Feeders"

If not for the cheesy killing, watch this movie for its superb use of bad lines. It's a hard one to explain. The killer is the "Poor Man's David Hasselhoff". It's awesome. Just watch it.