Estrada da Morte

I thought this film was going to be awful, but it turned out to be more fun than I thought with some nice touches. I did guess the plot twist fairly quickly in, because I have seen other films with a familiar premise, and the hints are there. I thought it was going to be a cheap knock off of films like Jeepers Creepers, especially with the creepy guy. But I'm glad I was wrong about that.

I don't think it's a tense or scary style horror, it's more figure out what is going on mystery/twilight zone type horror. My favourite touch of the film was everyone getting the two coins in the diner.

The budget is not big, but I did notice there were some extremely pretty shots, and the camera work is beautiful. I wish I would have known the story behind the secondary characters more because they clearly have a tale to tell.

It's not big Hollywood Film good, but I thought it had a lot to like.

Sarah (Shannon Dalonzo) and Michael are driving down Route 66 in the desert. They are being chased by a crazed man driving a black muscle car. They stop at a diner in the middle of nowhere with its cast of characters. Sarah and Michael seem to be in a permanent loop of being chased and stopping at the diner.

The premise is a little interesting and Kafkaesque. I like the general idea of it in theory. Sarah and Michael need to be more in depth. They do need some more car action. The diner could do more. The movie could do more. It's all rather thin. The writing needs to be more to fill out the movie.

I had a feeling this was going to be a poor mans Jeepers Creepers and within the first 5 minutes my assumption was a bit stronger but the further I got I realized I was 100% right. I made it maybe 20 minutes in. I honestly have no idea since I stopped the movie and deleted it from my Prime watch history. I don't even want a reminder that I saw any part of this movie.

The Ferry Man looked very low budget and tacky. They couldn't even afford FX. I truly can't believe friends told them that this was a good idea to make, then patted them on the back after making it. Laughable attempt at a horror movie. Truly, what was the idea?

Could've had a V8!

How can you screw something up with such a great location?

Two words: Script. Acting.

The woman playing the waitress - while attractive - should never act again. At least not on the screen or in front of a theater audience. The subpar- Twilight Zone type of a script leads much to be desired. Seek out any of Rod Serling's original series over this badly mishandled dreck. This was way too talky. Less is more. We didn't need to hear half of the foolish words the lead actors were muttering.

The villain was idiotic. The scene with him growling in his car and "magically" hurling lightning bolts on the telephone wires was handled in such a goofy, amateurish way I almost turned off the set right then and there.

Easy pass. Please skip. Watch Spielberg's "Duel" if you want to see an excellent film about a person escaping a crazed motorist on a desert highway.

I couldn't shake the feeling that I saw few movies already with this same premise, but I kind of like it overall, so I didn't consider it to be a drawback.

I liked the secondary characters a lot, this might sound strange, but they were actually quite believable and likeable, they really made up a better part of this movie. While main charactres - not so much, I think the biggest miss was with the main actress. And the clothes that the main guy was wearing - felt like a big miss. And finally the biggest miss - their car, haha, big bummer. Probably sponsored by the manufacturer, that why...

The main antagonist as well, was not ideal I think, first of all, I think he should've been made more subtle, they showed him off too much and most of the time he was just following or watching them, it didn't feel like a haunting and he didn't feel scary or terrifying enough. I think they surely could've done a better job with the makeup for him and maybe something more for the eyes to make him look really sinister. And his car as well - although the car selection might be fine this time, it was still too clean and shiny for the purpose... There were some scenes where you could tell its not a bad movie, because characters were acting more realistic then in the most horror movies I've seen, so that's a plus.

I wish they've spent some time to expose the story behind secondary characters, at least just a big, with some subtle message, instead of all these superficial boring talks that main characters had about their past and planned future.

Overall, it's a so-so movie, if you don't come in with high expectations, you might find it enjoyable eventually. I did.