Devil's Highway

Demonic Activity on a Bus; Poor acting, bad make-up, no story, poor special effects, no gore and poorly executed shock scenes, an all round awful movie. I have no idea why it won awards unless all you need for cinematography awards are wide angle dessert shots. I guess that worked for Thelma and Louise. The sound is too loud at some points and too quiet at others. The characters are stereo typical with no depth. There are no saving graces. Was this a film student flick made with no budget? When you get to the blacksmith scene you tell me what he is doing and/or who is who. I couldn't tell.

This is a waste of time. I watched expecting a huge plot twist or vast improvement in the scare factor. This one is heading for Science Theater 3000 soon.

While traveling through the cursed Old Highway 13 in New Mexico, each passenger of a bus to Las Vegas is attacked by an evil fiend that possesses and destroys their bodies.

The screenplay of "Devil's Highway" is the simple development of the above storyline, basically with the demon possessing the body of each passenger in each bus stop, recalling the cursed fallen angel Azazel of "Fallen" (except that he does not sing the Rolling Stones' "Time Is on My Side"). Unfortunately the explanation based on the hangings of a man in the past is very confused and unreasonable. However, this film has some interesting aspects in my point of view, considering that it is indeed a very low budget movie. The first one is the cinematography that keeps an eerie and tense atmosphere of a nightmare basically without the use of special effects associated to the music score that recalls Tangerine Dream. The acid trip of the trio of friends is tremendously scary when one of the guys glances the blurred demon shape in his bad trip in one of the best sequences of the movie. The introduction is actually a rip-off or homage to "Lost Highway" and the excessive use of fadeout is boring in some moments. The unknown cast has good performances and I really did not like the demon's blue eyes, which never work; red, black or yellow are the traditional colors of demon's eyes in most supernatural movies. In the end, I really liked this weird movie, but I only recommended it to viewers like me that enjoys finding and appreciates unknown B-movies. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "A Estrada do Diabo" ("The Devil's Highway")

The title is the best part of this movie. First, the movie doesn't even give you a glimpse of hope that maybe it will be good. It starts off slow, and you hope that maybe it'll pick up, but no. It never does. It starts off slow, and it ends the same way.I don't know how this movie got decent reviews and won an award in Las Vegas! It was by far one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen. the acting is horrible, the plot is stupid, and it is supposed to be scary.nothing about the movie was scary! The characters are boring, plain, and all in all sad and dull. please don't waste your time or your money on this movie. You would have more enjoyment sticking your hand in a blender than watching this movie.

There is hardly nothing connected to anything in this stupid movie. You have a storyless story, scareless scares, bad actors and a jumpy editing (which should - i guess - look arty but in fact looks confusing and cheap). Oh Boy, and now IMDb tells me there are not enough lines in my little critic here - but what the hell should I write more about such an terrible film? At first the movie does a quite good job in keeping you thinking there will come something. But it never does. All which is coming is more of the same senseless crap. I really don't get, why bullshit like this finds someone who produces it and then even someone who gives an Award for it. Please do yourself a favor and avoid this stinker-stinker. Got it: 12 lines - are you happy now IMDb?

What we have here is an excellent example of making something out of nothing: no-name actors, a somewhat hackneyed set-up, no sets and zero budget, and turning all that into a final product that was worth watching. Definitely an entertaining horror-thriller, even if it is low on the gore content we are used to seeing nowadays. Somewhat in the mold of the original "Outer Limits" TV show. Probably a bit too intense for "The Twilight Zone".

This is the magic of movie making: misdirecting the audience and creating art out of spit and duct tape. The plot is nothing we haven't seen before, but the dialog was snappy enough. There were a few plot twists along the way, but nothing we didn't all see coming down the road.

The editing and special effects, such as they were, were well-used, and the original music was quite effectively employed in creating tension.

As an average viewer, you could find many worse ways to spend 90 minutes.

As a film student, this film is deserving of some more in-depth study. Here's how to make lemonade out of lemons.