Alive or Dead

Maria (the particularly lovely Ann Henson decked out in very flattering tight fitting clothes) is trying to have some fun on the phone while driving down a dark road when she sees a seemingly abandoned bus on the side of the road with 'help me' written on it. She decides to investigate and soon finds a chained up and hooded girl begging for her life. The abductor comes back, so Maria quickly hides. Soon the girl duo find themselves at a secluded castle trying to figure out what's happening while being chased by a deranged hillbilly (and others but I won't give away the, admittedly silly, 'twist').

The movie is entertaining enough if you're an indiscriminate fan of slasher films, but not really all that horrifying in the least and only gets really picks up steam in the last half hour or so. The movie is also extremely generic and this plot has been seen a million times over (and mostly better) All in all a silly forgettable little horror flick worthy of a rental if you have nothing better to do.

My Grade: C-

The story we have all seen a million times before if your into horror movies anyway. Girl gets stuck on a lonely road at night and runs into a creepy dude and captured hooded woman. The woman tried to help said captured woman and winds up at some one story castle in the middle of the desert.

I have to say that I really didn't understand what was going on. There is a huge, crazy, infantile-like man who kills people and there is a lizard looking boy who is a cannibal. Than there is a doctor. I don't know what the lizard is boy is doing there. But regardless of the major plot-holes I did enjoy the movie somewhat. Ill have to watch it again. Maybe I'll understand it a little better. Overall, the gore was OK and the production was good. The story, however, needed a little work.

Weird start to this movie , phone sex while in a moving car. Our star I guess finds a bus stalled out on the side of the road.......

Then she mysteriously pops 2 tires!!! How odd!!!!!!

Guess it's time to explore that bus!!!!

Okay apparently the bus is being driven by some serial killer who just drives off in the bus with the star and a captive still in the bus.

The star's car sitting there with 2 popped tires didn't really cause him much alarm or cause to care. Well that's stupid ain't it???!!!

-1 Star for the not caring 'killer' when something is obviously 'amiss'......

-1 Star for the prolonged musical bus ride to the 'fort' or whatever the destination is...

+1 star because the star can actually run... the star has good runner's form and doesn't run like someone who has never run in their life.....that's almost original!!!

Okay then the movie really bogs down into some hillbillies and hawties thing......

Filmed in some old California fort... I don't recognize the exact locale....

lol wow...-1 star for the slammed door chopping off hillbilly finger....what the hell? how stupid!!!!

what the heck...near the end the 2nd female is driving and the tires on the truck are obviously not flat.....that were flat just a few seconds before

-1 Star for non flat tires!!!!

Wow I was about to shut it off right as it was ending for the sheer stupidity.... Very close to being one of the worst movies ever that I've actually made it to the end.

2/10

It's rare these days I don't come and check IMDb before I go ahead and watch a film, unfortunately there wasn't a review of any description here. I figure that for two reasons, either no one has seen it yet, or those who have couldn't be bothered wasting the time to write one to tell everyone how bad this film is.

These modern day slasher films are in abundance at the moment and seemingly each one worse than the last. This one was particularly bad. There was no story line, I was waiting until the 59th min mark before I began writing this and it still hadn;t made any sense. At that point I realised I wasn't going to get that 59 minutes of my life back so why waste more.

The acting is bad, the plot is bad or non existent, hardly any gore until the end and the continuity was appalling (follow the tyre flat/not flat sequences and you'll see what I mean) This is painful to watch, I recommend renting or streaming something like An American werewolf in London which I watch the other night for the first time in about 10 years, that is still a fantastic film, this belongs in the garbage can with Oscar the grouch.

I didn't have a lot of hope for this movie when I saw it was from Filmrise, and I feel I am correct. This movie has characters easy to dislike, doing stupid things, and a plot that makes no sense. Maria is driving down a rather deserted road, when she sees a bus on the side of the road. She stops, but when she starts to drive away, gets two flat tires. It was a trap, and on the bus was a young girl chained by the wrist. And it doesn't get much better from then on either. In fact, much later in the movie along comes a monk-like Howard, who gives a long narration that helps fill in some of the background. But by then, did one really care? And if that wasn't clear enough, still later is more background. By then one hoped the movie would be over. The movie is unpleasant, with some nasty bloody scenes.