One intense family road trip.

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2007)

I have never seen the original movie by Wes Craven, I want to though, but I am guessing that one is going to be a more realistic movie while this one ramped up the violence and the mutation on our radioactive desert family. What we get is a rather intense movie that once our innocent family has an accident in the middle of nowhere the film does not let up. It also made me want to get a German Shepard doggy. So the story is basically a family are driving I am guessing cross country or something in a rather old motor home...the type that gets pulled along by a truck. They make a stop at a gas station and things go wrong when the creepy attendant tells them of a shortcut when he fears one of the family members sees something they should not. Well this sets them along a dirt road which you never take no matter how good of a short cut it is and they get eight flat tires, what is the chances of that happening? Well now our family is stuck in the middle of the desert to bicker and such, but not for long as they are being stalked by some folks out in the desert hills. There are some rather brutal scenes to follow as I really felt for the family, and I wanted nothing more than to see those responsible pay. Which is much better in a horror movie than that group of thoroughly obnoxious people that you want to die in horrible ways. So be prepared for a lot of gruesome killings and one heck of a dog in this very hard core horror movie. Something about the stranded traveler horror movie I usually like.