Rest Stop

I have come to suspect most people sit in they're living rooms watching movies and have no other experiences. Movies often go from good, to great simply because you can relate to the situation. People giving this 1 out of 10 stars have obviously never spent the night sleeping in they're car at a rest stop. I watched this movie with my son about 4 months after we had done just that, so we could relate to being in the middle of nowhere at some rest stop on the side of the highway sleeping in our car and it made the movie much more intense for us.

Remember when Nightmare on Elm Street came out? EVERYONE could relate to nightmares and that's what made those movies legendary at the time. So go outside and get some experience in real life, maybe you'll appreciate your movies more :P

This movie definitely does not deserve the 9 I gave it, but its definitely better then a 1 as a lot of others gave it.

"Rest Stop" is a horror movie which has to do about a maniac serial killer who torture and finally kills his victims on a rest stop where many of them stop.

The only thing that this movie makes us believe or convey is that everyone have their own and personal demon and have to overcome and beat it.

Although "Rest Stop" had some good moments but there were not many and did not make difference for the rest of this movie and did not make it any better.

The worst thing of it, is that it has a sequel.

I do not write reviews here often but I can not stand by and let other people suffer through this movie without a least trying to warn them. This movie is horrible and it is not because "I do not know what the director was trying to convey" or "I am too stupid to understand the plot"; this movie is horrible because of poor direction, screen writing and acting. This is the "trifecta" of bad move making and the reason the film was direct to video. It tries to be something like "High Tension", "Hostel" and "TCSM" with the lifting of some of those ideas but it just does not work. I did not have high expectations or even medium ones going into the film but was still very disappointed. It had potential to be very good with a nice setting and good idea for a film but it was wasted.

I've never made one of these before, but this movie was literally so bad I had to say something about it.

I'm all for independent film-making as the past year has seen of the worst (in my opinion) of Hollywood's showings, the mainstream just seems to have lost touch with what making good films is all about. That being said movies like this really give independent film a bad reputation.

The characters are boring and too stupid to empathize with. The direction is horrible, the plotting is horrible, the plot itself is horrible, stay away, far away. Only one brief scene featuring a female's nude breasts, and even that wasn't worth a second look.

The scariest thing about this movie is the idea of ever having to watch it again. I gave it a 2 and not a 1 simply because the actors were visible and the sound was audible - it earns one point for each of those traits.

As some reviewers have said, the supernatural (ghost) elements could explain what some have called the "plot holes" in the story line and/or character motivation. Another possibility is that the events as we see them are part of a nightmare world or dream imagery in which actual events are "relived" in a surreal, disjointed sequence in which memories can be magnified and distorted. Both types of experience are not a precise replay of reality, though they have a basis in a reality. Another possibility is that the film-makers' goal is a depiction of their conception of what Purgatory could be like, in which the "sinner" relives portions of his/her life as an end to eventual redemption; a part of that redemption could include a reaching out (into the real world) in an effort to protect others from a similar fate by reaching out (or "across" time and space)to make contact with living people -- some of whom (as in the movie) can "see" and react, while others cannot.

How well this works in the eyes of an audience is another matter, of course. As with all movies, a willing suspension of disbelief is necessary for the degree of enjoyment one derives, and that is effected by (though not always satisfactorily controlled by)the acting, direction, special effects, etc. In the case of REST STOP (I haven't seen the sequel), the success of such an intention is for me only about 50/50, though I appreciate the multiple levels of possible meaning. Certainly it is not "the worst" movie of all time -- unless one has seen only one movie.