Buckout Road

I honored the acting (of many of the performers) and overall production values of this film with a 5. They had a nifty idea for a film, following a number of films of a "haunted road", and they added more to it to enrich the concept away from typical tropes. The problem I found with all these additions is that they didn't add up to anything whole. The film ultimately has a simple narrative that is a "surprise" at the end. Ho hum, not much of a surprise. The various elements become confusing as if they melded several short film ideas into this overall concept. And this led to characters having one dimensional qualities that didn't do justice to what they were experiencing. It is creepy enough that I wanted to see the whole film, but I started the crossword puzzle halfway through it.

This film was a fine example of way too many ideas shoved into a meandering, sloppy, almost laughable mess.

You couldn't find a coherent storyline in this script with a magnifying glass and a flashlight. And your heart really goes out to these poor, mostly mediocre, actors trying to claw there way through this mish-mosh in order to make some sense of it. When one of the main charcters "suddenly" figures out what and why anything is happening, the revelation just drops out of the sky. You could see the unoriginal "twist" ending a mile away. This one os just for the "auteur's" friends and family.

Sure, while I had actually never heard about the 2017 horror movie "The Curse of Buckout Road" prior to stumbling upon it here in 2025, of course I opted to watch the movie on account of it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. And I am a big fan of all things horror after all.

But talk about a swing and a miss from writers Shahin Chandrasoma, Matthew Currie Holmes and Johnny Pascucci, because the storyline in the movie was one of the dullest and most boring ones I've sat through in a long, long time. The pacing of the narrative was sluggishly slow, and there just wasn't much of anything interesting happening to spruce up the otherwise dull movie. So it was not a great horror experience.

The acting performances in the movie were fair, despite the fact that the script was rubbish. There were some familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of Danny Glover, Henry Czerny and Colm Feore.

Visually, then the movie was okay. It wasn't exactly a movie that were throwing special effects left and right. But whatever effects were in the movie were fair enough.

If you enjoy horror movies, then "The Curse of Buckout Road" is not a movie that I would recommend. Nor is it a movie that will ever grace my screen a second time.

My rating of director Matthew Currie Holmes's 2017 movie "The Curse of Buckout Road" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.

I've never seen Evan Ross in anything before this and never want to again. He's the worst. His irritating Kevin Hart voice and total lack of talent made it impossible to watch him. Add that to the rest of this ridiculously amateurish movie, and you end up with 90 excruciating minutes (which seemed like three hours) of pointless story, mediocre characters and not a single second of suspense, thrills or scares. Remember when bad movies at least had the sense to have their female stars strip off their clothes to give us some reason for watching? Movies like this need to start doing that again, because the script and acting aren't doing it.

This movies was trending a solid 7 until the very unsatisfying ending. Decent acting, great storyline, but the ending was terrible. It's like the screen writers just didn't know how to end it... makes me feel like I just wasted an hour & a half of my life.