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A group of teenagers are menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.A group of teenagers are menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.A group of teenagers are menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.
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Dean Francis
- Man Who Drives Off With Truck
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- (uncredited)
Dominic McDonald
- The Truck
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Gruesome Supernatural Journey to Hell
The teenagers Marcus (Xavier Samuel), Liz (Georgina Haig), Craig (Bob Morley) and Nina (Sophie Lowe) are camping in the remote outback of Australia. While driving on the road, a road train crashes on their car that leaves the road in a serious accident. The quartet survives and Craig breaks his arm, but their car is totally wrecked. However they see the train truck parked on road and Marcus and Liz walks to the vehicle to ask for help. They do not find the driver and sooner Craig and Nina arrive. When they see the driver shooting them, they decide to carjack the road train. Sooner they begin to act strange possessed by some evil force.
"Road Train" is a gruesome supernatural journey to hell of four teenagers. The story and the screenplay have many flaws, and there is no explanation why the two couples are camping together in a desert area if they have problems of relationship and grief with the betrayal of one of the girls. The beginning has a free exploitation of sex with an unnecessary scene. The characters are unlikable and it is impossible to feel empathy for any of them. The screams of the girls are unbearable. Marcus drinking urine is nasty and also unnecessary. There is no explanation for the three hound dogs on the hood of the train truck. What does Liz drink in the can? For foreigners like me, the term road train is mostly used in Australia and means a line of linked trailers pulled by a truck, used for transporting stock in remote areas of Argentina, Australia, Mexico, the United States and Canada. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "Terror Sobre Rodas" ("Terror Over Wheels")
Note: On 20 November 2020, I saw this film again.
"Road Train" is a gruesome supernatural journey to hell of four teenagers. The story and the screenplay have many flaws, and there is no explanation why the two couples are camping together in a desert area if they have problems of relationship and grief with the betrayal of one of the girls. The beginning has a free exploitation of sex with an unnecessary scene. The characters are unlikable and it is impossible to feel empathy for any of them. The screams of the girls are unbearable. Marcus drinking urine is nasty and also unnecessary. There is no explanation for the three hound dogs on the hood of the train truck. What does Liz drink in the can? For foreigners like me, the term road train is mostly used in Australia and means a line of linked trailers pulled by a truck, used for transporting stock in remote areas of Argentina, Australia, Mexico, the United States and Canada. My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "Terror Sobre Rodas" ("Terror Over Wheels")
Note: On 20 November 2020, I saw this film again.
This movie is proof not to trust IMDb ratings...
This movie has 22% of its votes giving it 10/10 stars. Every single one of these votes is, without a doubt from someone working for this movie in some capacity. This was one of the worst films ever made easily. The acting was the worst I've ever seen by far, it often seemed like a bad joke at times, characters becoming angry and hysterical for absolutely no reason. Not much of anything actually happens to anyone in this movie, yet they all completely loose their marbles, WHY!? Anyway, IMDb.com, you really need to moderate your voting system. Terrible low budget pieces of crap like this shouldn't be able to earn more than a 2 or 3 stars without getting thousands of votes first.
Tiresome, nonsensical quasi-horror rubbish
It's extraordinary that Sophie Lowe made this movie after "Beautiful Kate". Talk about coming in at the top floor... and riding the express elevator all the way to the basement.
I don't even know what "Road Train" is about, and I just finished watching it. It lost me and didn't find me again. Sure, I got the bits you already know if you haven't seen it already: two girls and two guys are travelling through the outback and are run off the road by a "road train", ie. a truck pulling more than one load. Their car is destroyed but they commandeer the titular train when they discover it apparently abandoned.
Then, all hell apparently breaks loose. Characters go crazy and kill each other for no reason I could discern. Is the truck haunted, and making them go crazy? What a stupid and unfilmable idea.
Aside from Lowe, the acting is also pretty bad, which just adds to the overall tackiness and ineffectiveness of the experience, which ends up feeling tiresome and annoying.
I don't even know what "Road Train" is about, and I just finished watching it. It lost me and didn't find me again. Sure, I got the bits you already know if you haven't seen it already: two girls and two guys are travelling through the outback and are run off the road by a "road train", ie. a truck pulling more than one load. Their car is destroyed but they commandeer the titular train when they discover it apparently abandoned.
Then, all hell apparently breaks loose. Characters go crazy and kill each other for no reason I could discern. Is the truck haunted, and making them go crazy? What a stupid and unfilmable idea.
Aside from Lowe, the acting is also pretty bad, which just adds to the overall tackiness and ineffectiveness of the experience, which ends up feeling tiresome and annoying.
frightening(ly) bad
irredeemable dross of the highest calibre.
cardboard cutout characters with zero personality fall prey to a decidedly un-menacing truck.
there are references to Cerberus and hell etc, but so flimsy and bewilderingly pointless is the narrative, score, acting and cinematography that you're just left wondering how this even got made.
who exactly sat down read the script and said, you know what, this sounds AWESOME.
it isn't even a good generic horror movie, it's the kind of film making that makes Eli Roth look like Kubrick
terrible.
cardboard cutout characters with zero personality fall prey to a decidedly un-menacing truck.
there are references to Cerberus and hell etc, but so flimsy and bewilderingly pointless is the narrative, score, acting and cinematography that you're just left wondering how this even got made.
who exactly sat down read the script and said, you know what, this sounds AWESOME.
it isn't even a good generic horror movie, it's the kind of film making that makes Eli Roth look like Kubrick
terrible.
Undescribably bad
I honestly can,t begin to describe how bad this film is...so i won,t.Its enough to say i fast forwarded to the end after an hour to see if the ending could possibly redeem this awful film.Suffice to say it did,t.
The acting is risible,the plot the same.The characters jump from hysteria to dead calm in a matter of minutes,every decision they decide to take has you groaning in despair,not that you care for them anyway.
The plot contains every horror film cliché you could expect to see.The film is so unaware of itself,it can,t even be described as tongue in cheek.
Oh look,i did describe how bad it was....
Avoid Avoid Avoid........
The acting is risible,the plot the same.The characters jump from hysteria to dead calm in a matter of minutes,every decision they decide to take has you groaning in despair,not that you care for them anyway.
The plot contains every horror film cliché you could expect to see.The film is so unaware of itself,it can,t even be described as tongue in cheek.
Oh look,i did describe how bad it was....
Avoid Avoid Avoid........
Did you know
- TriviaThis movie was retitled 'Road Kill' for its American release, because the North American public generally do not know what a "road train" is. It is a two to three trailer truck.
- GoofsWhen Nina is turning the truck around by herself, we see the truck's tachometer. The tachometer is reading zero RPM, which means the truck's engine is off and cannot be moving.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Making of 'Road Train' (2011)
- SoundtracksA Runner (Road Train, Road Kill)
Written and Sung by Sophie Lowe
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- $1,000,000 (estimated)
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- $5,964
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- 1h 27m(87 min)
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- 2.35 : 1
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