Road Head

Taking a road trip together, a couple and their friend try to forget a bad breakup by going to a scenic lake in the desert, but when the trip goes awry and they realize why as the area is patrolled by a savage cult looking for a new queen to spawn more members they try to figure out how to get away alive.

This wasn't that bad of an effort and had a lot to like about it. One of the strongest elements here is the generally enjoyable mixture of the horror and comedy elements present which are apparent throughout the whole film. The fact that the group banter on the trip up there and up to the initial attack offers a rather enjoyable setup that brings up a fun, lighthearted atmosphere of the friends hanging out and joking while still trying to placate the boundaries of the various relationships in play. Seeing the way they interact on the drive there and trying to put their relationship issues out into the open air regarding the reason for the trip and their personal backstories gives this a rather solid build-up featuring all the comedy and motivations for getting the group into the desert. As well, there's also a nice sense of fun featured in the encounters with the cult. There's quite a lot of fun encounters throughout the film of them chasing the friends throughout the dried-up lake, through the various relics from previous victims left ta the area and finally getting to the cult meetings where they reveal the purpose behind the cult being there. The final scenes of them fighting back against the cult and getting quite fun and messy with how it all plays out, featuring some surprising moments and outcomes for several of the characters here, as the revelations that come about here are quite surprising and unexpected which helps quite a bit to go alongside the fine gory outcomes. These are what manage to hold this one up over its main drawbacks. There are a few minor issues featured within this one. The main problem is that, for every joke that lands with this one there's a couple more that fail to do so and are outright horrible. The line between humorous and childish gets crossed repeatedly here with the monotonous sex references, constant bickering about her boyfriend, and the later inclusion of weed jokes since one of the characters becomes stoned in the film which can take a toll on the viewer at times. Moreover, there's also the factor of how surprisingly simple it is to take out the cult, which is carried out so easily that it does render a lot of the catharsis that emerges from the act itself. These factors do manage to rag the film down enough overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, sexual innuendo and scenarios, and drug use.

There is no good comedy in this film. There is no good story. There is no good plot twist.

The film is certainly strange. The plot starts out a little, well, strange, but I think the film really holds it's own and comes together.

Had Ingmar Bergman made this very film, people would be raving about it. But personally, I think it was more engaging than a Bergman film. It had a sense of humor about itself.

The acting was good. Really good! I'm still dumbfounded that Jaime Lee Curtis won an Academy Award for her role in Everything All At Once. If she earned that award, there are at LEAST two deserved award for actors in this film. Namely Damian Joseph Quinn, who plays Alex, and Elizabeth Grullon who plays Stephanie. Other actors were good, but these two were real standouts.

The story takes a few minutes to get into, but once you catch on to the dynamics, it gels. It's got a lot of surprises. Things you don't expect because they're the usual routine or storyline of other movies.

Clearly, judging from the User Reviews, this film isn't for everyone. But if you enjoy something off the beaten path, I'd recommend giving this one a spin.

I love the Pam Grier type 'heroine' in this movie! In a time of wokeness and woke horror comedy, i found her performance to be very refreshing! Here we have lots of gay humor and horror!! Sword wielding desert people and murder!!!

The movie was fun. The end was well deserved! 6/10.

Made on a low 6 digt dollar budget, a very small cast, a story that only a few will find amusing, some chop chop gore here and there, and even a little comedy and hallusinative hemp splicing along the road, well its a film of feature lenght, all the basics are covered, even the strong desert light by an all white dried up salt lake has been tried solved, the acting isnt bad at all, but the idea, plot and story is completely out of originality. Its also a film about genderism, and there are loads of jokes about how to honk the horn, and the story about how dick got his head cut of is one of the highlights in a rather dried out holiday resort, sitting on the dock of the bay looking for water which there aint, so take my grumpy old mannish word for what it is, its dry on content, a bit gory at best, even that cant make me recommend.