Devil's Highway

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.

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")

Not as bad as the previous reviews say, but nothing exceptional either. I would classify this more as a supernatural thriller than a straight horror genre. There is some decent desert scenery and I thought the actor playing the bus driver was OK in his role. Also the hot girl was easy on the eyes. One thing I appreciated was the director tried to generate suspense and tension without relying on gore. There was hardly any gore in this movie, and the effects were obviously low budget. The ending was expected and has been done a million times before. I rented this from Netflix and my evaluation is I've seen a lot worse movies but also much better than this. I wouldn't seek this movie out but it might be worth a watch if it came on TV and nothing else was on.

This movie is like a made for TV movie that was never finished.

Wow. Really bad story. Not scary, not coherent and you don't see anything happen. Really boring and very predictable. I wont watch it again.

BUT, the girl who plays michelle is seriously gorgeous. She doesn't get to do much other than pout her lips and flip her hair and that is pretty satisfying but this ends up being the best part of the movie. Seriously.

The film was shot well enough and the actors were pretty decent, but they had nothing to work with. The ending left a bunch of unanswered questions. Plus, the action doesn't even really start until about 1 hour and 16 minutes into the movie which is hysterical considering that it is about 1:30 with credits.

And not to be a stickler but you don't really see any action or gore. It was like they had no budget left for special effects and they just said "the hell with it. Let's edit it a little edgier and then release it."