Hit and Run

Interesting plot, pure minimalist horror. It starts off well when Mary Murdock (played by Laura Breckinridge) drives home drunk from a party and has a near-accident on the road. She thinks she just missed a tire in the road, but she has another thing coming. Later, she discovers a half-alive dude dangling from her bumper in the garage.

He tries to kill her, then she accidentally kills him and then her whole life and all her plans turn upside down. Some have compared this to a similar-themed movie "Stuck" or "I Know What You Did Last Summer", but beyond the obvious plot of the beginning, I didn't see the similarities. For example, in "Stuck" the girl knows she's hit a guy and doesn't do anything about it. In this movie, she doesn't realize till later and ends up being stalked by him.

The action sequences were not bad, some very exciting. It had some eccentricities and odd things that made it stand out from the usual fare. Like the whole thing with her being tied to the bumper... I hadn't seen that before in these kind of movies. One thing is there could have been a bit more suspense in the middle part. It seemed like the film went into her 'delirium' mind so much we lost touch there for a while with reality, but maybe that was the point. The actors are fine (Kevin Corrigan as the wacky bi-polar psycho is freaking weird), creepy mood and there are some unexpected moments.

"Hit and Run" is a pretty forgettable horror flick about an adorable little woman who drives a big truck and runs off the road one night. She inspects the damage on her big truck the next day and finds a man she somehow ran over without realising, but who is still alive, and attacks her, so she clobbers him with a golf club. But he keeps coming back, and blah blah blah.

I loved the little woman in this movie, but other than that, there's nothing to recommend it. The guy who keeps coming back thing is just boring and annoying at this point. He's not scary, just annoying. Why won't he die? Oh yeah - because the movie requires him to keep coming back. He's like a party guest that won't leave.

This movie took me by surprise. The movie has a very high level of suspense and I was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time from start to finish. Each scene was thrilling. The basic story is a very unusual tale of a young woman who thinks she killed a kindergarten school teacher but things go crazy unexpected ways. This is one of the best little films I've seen in a while.

I think the rating of 5.1 is a fair reflection of this film. Drinking and driving as we all know isn't good. But this is a whole different kinda bad. As previously described - a stalker shocker, which most of the way through I enjoyed but after a while things just didn't make much sense. Where did he come from?? I like these sorta films normally, and to be fair the acting wasn't bad but something just went wrong, maybe I'm being too harsh as there were some good driving sequences (with a twist) and well shot. I didn't expect the ending, but I didn't really care too much by this time, it was a bit like the writers gave up and asked some of his/her kids to help out.

If you like suspenseful horror stalker type films then you may enjoy this, as my partner doesn't and she didn't like this.

A couple of B movie gory bits as well. Not sure how to summarise, make up you own mind.

I wasn't aware of Hit and Run, it's one of those movies that popped up on Netflix and my curiosity got the best of me. I really need to mute my curiosity.

It tells the story of a girl who leaves a party, drives under the influence and runs a guy over. She does what she thinks needs to be done, but then the horror truly begins.

I say horror, but I really mean mediocrity and lots and lots of it. You see the concept is hardly original but it's solid enough, the issue is how shoddily made the whole thing is.

The camera work is some of the worst I've seen in years, I don't just mean the shoddy cinematography I mean the actual camera quality. Whenever a scene isn't fully illuminated it looks grainy and cheap, you simply shouldn't be seeing that in a movie from 2009 let alone one that isn't hyper low budget/independent.

So once you get behind the ugliness of it all you'll realize that it's flaws do not end there. Our characters are unlikable, questions are left unanswered, the story feels oddly rushed for a 90 minute film and it just comes across like the very definition of amateur hour.

I've seen considerably worse, hell I've seen considerably worse this week! But still this is a messy little film made worse by the fact I get the impression everyone involved behind the scenes really didn't know what they were doing.

The Good:

Fitting finale

Passable lead

The Bad:

Bafflingly poor camera quality

Some shoddy cinematography

Weak deaths.