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While returning to Los Angeles in a trailer through the desert, the driver Neil (Brent Taylor) convinces his friends Tara (Ashley Elizabeth), Harmony (Danna Brady), Loopz (Aaron Buer), Michelle (Jessica Osfar), Lee (Ryan De Rouen) and Cashie (Kelsey Wedeen) to take a detour to an isolated mine where it could have a plantation of peyote. The owner of a gas station advises the group to not go to the place, but the stubborn Neil does not pay attention to his words. While driving in a secondary road, Neil sees a girl and wrecks the car in a rock. He decides to walk back to the gas station to call a tow truck, while Michelle and Lee climb a hill trying to get signal to their cell phones. Sooner the teenagers find that they are under siege of a group of sadistic deformed cannibals and they have to fight to survive.

"Detour" is a teen rip-off of "The Hills Have Eyes", using the same storyline but with many silly dialogs and situations. I like horror movies, and "Detour" is not among the worse that I have seen, having beautiful and sexy actresses and a good conclusion with the scary little girl in the best scene of the movie. Unfortunately the annoying character Loopz spoils what could be worthwhile in this movie, plagiarizing the way of speaking of Eminen and having imbecile lines and attitudes. In a certain moment I was so irritated with this actor that I almost stopped the DVD. The screenplay is very weak, without suspense or tension. If you have not seen this movie yet, better off watching "The Hills Have Eyes" instead. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Detour - Rota 666" ("Detour - Route 666")

This update of the classical Craven's movie The Hills have eyes emerges from the mass of the direct to video slasher road movies of the last few years for a very good use of colors in its cinematography. This is the only redeeming feature for a movie with a young cast that could be used with more reasons in a Playboy soft core movie (and one of the actress has indeed been in a Palyboy video), it is totally boring as a real horror movie, with ridiculous special effects (with running blood that is really colored water), almost no new ideas in the use of the killers or in the killings their-selves and an hysterical cast. Anyway, it could be enjoyed by the fans of the genre because the production values are really very high for such a blame.

This was the most annoying movie. The one guy who acts like he's ghetto is overly annoying. The movies "jokes" are lame. The acting was horrible. The story had no guidelines to it. It just went along with whatever happened, not helping to explain it. But most of all it the gangster wannabe guy.

The cannibals didn't even look scary. They just looked like normal people. The best part was the butt shot of the girl in yellow at the beginning. The rest of the movie was bad acting, ghetto talking, stupid effects, and lame jokes. It's a cheaper, stupid version of Wrong Turn. Wrong Turn was better.

So as not to "spoil" anything, the plot is as follows: A group of young people get stranded in the middle of nowhere and trouble ensues.

This movie has a plethora of similarities to the recent remake of "The Hills Have Eyes". The only redeeming quality this movie has is a bevy of good looking 19 year-old girls. I'm a straight woman, yet even I couldn't tear my eyes away from the numerous shots of these tanned, leggy girls with their flat abs, perfectly round, er. curves, and cellulite-free thighs. It was like watching a Bally's Fitness commercial.

So much for the good.

Other than providing nothing new in the way of story or effects, the movie manages to annoy more than entertain, unless you want to watch it MST3K-style and mock it aloud in your living room with your friends over a case of beer (because that's about how much beer you'll need to numb the pain).

It's really hard to tell one gorgeous chick from the next, but there were some memorable male characters. Notice I said "memorable" -- not "good".

The first was the guy at the gas station. He looks strikingly like Hugh Laurie from the excellent Fox series, "House".

Amongst the youngsters in the doomed RV is a guy who was spawned from both Vanilla Ice and Eminem. The 2 minute joke of a pretty white boy talking like a gansta in the hood got old after...well, 2 minutes. Then it was just embarrassing. Although it's not the actor's fault, I want to blame him anyway. "Words" such as "yo", "aww-ite" and "dog" interspersed with the usual expletives went from satirical to just plain offensive.

I don't know the budget of either this film or "The Hills Have Eyes" (2006), but either could have been made for $3M or less. It would be amusing to watch them back to back so you can see the amazing similarities -- both have motor homes, both use unfamiliar faces, both have cunning and creepy foes, and both take place in the middle of nowhere.

This film was made several years before "Hills" and I never saw the original, so I cannot compare. But comparing to the remake of "Hills", there are myriad similarities but only one difference: One works and one doesn't. And "Detour" just doesn't work.

I gave it a 5/10 for the good-looking women.

Cannibal Family, aged 6-60, seek bunch of annoying morons to meet in desert locale. Morons must be extremely smug, GSOH. Must be able to endear themselves to audience by doing impressions of deaf people. Applicants must be familiar with the plot of The Hills Have Eyes, but not the good parts. Note to applicants, mobile phone coverage limited, industry standard. Cannibals enjoy dining out al fresco, dancing and bad acting. Very little to offer by way of gore, cannibals will more than make up for it by way of annoying clichés and pulled punches. Cannibals enjoy little back story, romance and maybe more. Hotpants preferable. Serious applicants only.

N.B Applicants will suffer great tedium and perhaps career death.

After the tired self-mocking slasher that came around 90's, Hollywood seem back to it basic (in horror movie genre). From major to independent are making a rendezvous' to those yesteryears now. Luckily, most of them are good enough, such us Jeepers Creepers, Wrong Turn, Cabin Fever and many more.

In independent-straight-to-video side, there's Detour, a little slasher that reminiscent of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hill Have Eyes. It clear that the budget is very low, but doesn't mean Detour is a low package. It's totally an enjoyable thrill-ride, from start to the very end. The gore is sufficient and the comedic situation is fun. And you can't believe whose going to survive toward the end; the characters that usually will never survive in this kind of movies.

Yes, it cliché, and some scenes are dull, but it really your time-killer. Watch this when you are have nothing to do, ask some friends to join you and you all will have a very good time.

7/10

A group of brain-dead teens are stuck in the middle of the desert when their RV gets a flat tire. As the day rolls on, they get picked off one-by-one by a family of deranged psychopaths. I once read a review for this little cesspool that called it "One of the best horror film of the new millennium". When the film was over, it left me wondering, "Where the hell was this person the last few years?" "Detour" is a bad, bad movie. The writing and acting was terrible. The plot was recycled from countless other films, especially "The Hills Have Eyes". Usually poor writing and acting don't bother me too much as long as the film is otherwise entertaining or well-done, but there's simply no excuse for how awful the actors are and how stupid the dialog is. To be fair, there was an very impressive amount of well-done gore effects, at times a little tension, and nicely shot desert locations. These are nice saving graces, but they certainly don't carry the movie.

Once in a while, you'll rent a direct-to-video film that you've never heard of that turns out to be a real gem. This, however, isn't one of them.

1.5/10.

First of all let me state for the record that I participated in this film, albeit in a small way, so my comments may seem and probably are somewhat prejudiced. I like the film. It's a fun gore fest with lots of beautiful women running around scantily clad. Giddyap! Seven ravers have all been invited to Freak Central for dinner-not where they eat, but where they are eaten. Who gets out of the invite and who doesn't makes up the bulk of the film. Thats not to say it doesn't have flaws, it does. But many of these faults stem from the fact the film was made on a shoestring. And yes, in ways it is an unofficial remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" by way of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". What is impressive is how much actually works in the film. At 88 minutes it moves right along, has great cinematography and locations as well as a soundtrack that pulsates. It does a good job of creating atmosphere and building tension. And it's funny too. My favorite bit was the scene where King Freak (T.C. Davidson) is carrying Tara (Ashley Elizabeth) like a sack of potatoes away from the Freak residence seemingly intent on getting her alone and doing God only knows what to her, only to be interrupted when Queen Freak (Micky Levy) calls to him from the second floor window like a good little freak wife and happy homemaker to tell him dinner, (Jill Jacobs, held captive and chained upside down) is ready. I guess Tara is going to be dessert. Such a tasty little morsel too. Nice cheeks.

I think that most of the reviews given for this film are spot on, given that (by the creator's own admission) it is basically a rip-off of the "Hills Have Eyes" franchise. The producers are unapologetic about this (as they should be) because their film works every bit as well (and in most cases better) than almost any other film in this genre niche. What bothers me is that none of the fine young actors involved in this project appear to have moved on to bigger and better projects. This is unfortunate, as this film's cast (in particular Ashley Reed) should have produced at least one Kevin Bacon ("Friday the 13th") or Jamie Lee Curtis ("Halloween").

Normally I am forgiving of most low-budget "young folks in danger" types of low-grade horror films because they sometimes rise above expectations, the shot-on-video HIGHWAY TO HELL being a good example. But this one is a mess of missed opportunities. Same premise as HILLS HAVE EYES, but a group of teenager/early 20s rather than a family. That in itself is a missed opportunity (but not a big one) because we all know where horror films go when there's a gang of gregarious kids around. There's a stupid and unnecessary prologue where we see 2 girls get killed that pretty much gives away the whole story in 3 minutes. If these kids were any goofier, they'd be in a cartoon instead. There's no build of suspense, the frights are few, the cannibals look like friends and family of the film-makers with very little make-up or reason to be the way they are. And there's too many of them anyway. The cannibal hide-out is a cave and then it's an old building, then a cave again. There's no good sense of where anything is here. The leader of the cannibals, while plenty big enough, has the most ludicrous facial appearance and isn't at all scary, his mate is just a screaming mimi. With a decent effort on makeup and a bit of style and maturity this could have been pretty good, but save your time and watch HILLS HAVE EYES instead. Heck, even HILLS HAVE EYES 2 is grade A compared to this.

Low budget or no budget horror flick that is so damn dumb you can't help yourself from watching. A grisly and gruesome fate is in store for a group of teen rebel-rousers in an RV borrowed without permission. The seven ravers find their partying days coming to an agonizing end when they turn off the highway in search of a secret cache of peyote hidden in the dessert. The scantly clad group still reeling from the rave the night before crash their RV and find themselves the targets of drug-addicted, bloodthirsty cannibals. Slash, chop and poke...blood drips, splatters and oozes. Most of the foul language comes from an obnoxious white boy gansta wannabee. Tight butt gripping shorts liven the dessert scenery and adds a little sex appeal other than some lesbian groping and horny, sizzling grinding on a hot rock.

This straight to video trip of violence and gore features: Aaron Buer, Kelsey Wedeen, Brent Taylor, Jessica Osfar and Renee Madison Cole.

I must say i was very upset as it said wrong turn 2 in the beginning of movie so i was very disappointed at badly made movie and at the end of movie seeing that this was DETOUR a boring and stupid movie i would not recommend watching this movie as i already wasted over a hour watching this C grade movie

I must say i was very upset as it said wrong turn 2 in the beginning of movie so i was very disappointed at badly made movie and at the end of movie seeing that this was DETOUR a boring and stupid movie i would not recommend watching this movie as i already wasted over a hour watching this C grade movie

This movie has pretty much the same plot line as wrong turn (minus that fact it takes place in the desert and the characters are in search of a pot field). The best part of the entire movie is probably seeing the main cannibal, who looks like Mr. Clean's brother who was locked in an unventilated room while mixing cleaning products. The worse character in possibly the history of movies is the white kid who fronts as a thug. I can honestly say that after being introduce to this character I wish every second after that to see his untimely demise.

There were some good effects and the actual camera shots weren't that bad considering their budget. Also the extras on the DVD were pretty amusing as well (especially the auditions for each character). Being a college educated individual and in the process of finishing my major and attending grad school I know that I can fall back on B movie acting if I don't get hired right away.

This movie got a 4 from me because it did have its moments. My roommates and I were laughing throughout the movie and were able to predict what was going to happen and the order that the characters would be taken out. But like I stated before, if you are forced to rent this movie for any more than one dollar you should simply tell the cashier at your local video store to pay you for removing this movie from their presence.

Well, this is just another group of teens deserted who get killed one by one. A teeny-bopper version of 'The Hills Have Eyes.' Not a whole lot to say about it, the killing scenes are good, but not great. Some nice looking girls, one decent sex scene. That Jill Jacobs as Harmony is really hot, but stays clothed unfortunately. She played the ditsy role pretty well, I hope she does some more movies. There's potential there.

The white wrapper guy was probably the worse part of the movie. He is one annoying poser, and not a very convincing one either. You will eagerly await his slaughter just because his acting is deplorable.

Well, I gave it a 5 out of 10, for mediocrity. If you happen across this, and like slasher films, then you could add this to your collection, just for the sake of being a horror buff. I wouldn't go out of my way to find this one though, nothing special about it, except Jill Jacobs is hot.

I expected little from watching Detour, but part of me was intrigued so I went on to watch it regardless. Detour does have some things that were not so bad. The photography is decent, with some fairly good use of colours and angles. The ending is scary, the one scene of Detour that genuinely is so. And some of the killings themselves in methodical terms are quite inventive. Unfortunately for Detour that is it for the redeeming qualities. I have seen much cheaper scenery, but the lighting generally is dull and the setting has been used so many times that I just didn't care. On a visual front though, where Detour was cheapened the most was in the special effects, which look so fake against the surroundings and they have a very unfinished quality to it. The sound effects manage to be bizarre and misplaced, while the script is lacking in tension and purpose coming across as stilted instead, the pace is leaden, the direction is flat and the story- if we forget for a minute that it is highly derivative of The Hills Have Eyes and pales massively in comparison- has nothing suspenseful or surprising in it with many of the scenes rather stupid rather than terrifying. The characters, aside from the obvious stereotypes, are both cardboard and annoying, Loopz being the absolute worst, and the eager but bland overall standard of the acting does little to help matters. It is true that the girls are incredibly beautiful and sexy, but what is there in their looks doesn't come across at all in their acting ability. The cannibals are not much of a threat if at all, alternatively as well as looking atrocious they are very characterless villains. In conclusion, not an utter catastrophe but best avoided. 3/10 Bethany Cox

After a second viewing of this film, I truly appreciate what the writers and director did with what they had to work with. This is one of the best indie horror flicks I've ever seen. This is how to do it, folks! Ok, the acting was mediocre at best, but the story (obviously an homage to TCM and The Hills Have Eyes) redeems any shortcomings in the acting department, and the gore is nicely done. Overall, I give this an 8. Nice.

An extremely verbose group semi obnoxious ravers are either going to or coming from a rave in the desert, they're warned by a shotgun toting apparent mental patient working at a small gas station, just like in "The Hills Have Eyes", to stay on the main road. They decide to take an old dirt road and then when they accidentally drive their RV off the road and get stuck, just like "The Hills Have Eyes" and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", and are set upon by a group of stoned cannibals living in an old abandoned mining town in the hills.

Derivative of everything from the aforementioned flicks to "Die Hard" to "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to "Route 666" to "Gore Met Zombie Chef from Hell", but somehow it's still fun, to a point. I think the first half of this is better than the second half, it starts off looking like an over-directed splatter movie, but then after the first ten minutes it switches gears and turns out to be a mildly amusing throwback to 1970s slasher movies; but by the final 30 minutes, it has worn quite thin.

The acting isn't that bad considering this is basically just home movies, but that little rapping hammerhead character, Loopz, almost ruins what little fun there is here.

The director's commentary on the DVD is also mostly a chore to listen to - they sound like high school students, and they keep interrupting each other every two sentences - but it is kind of funny when they mention "Don't go onto IMDb and give this movie a bad review!"