Joy Ride 3: Road Kill
Tags: violence

Plot synopsis:
Rob and Candy are holed up in a motel room, using methamphetine and having sex. When they run out of drugs, Rob convinces Candy to use the CB to lure a trucker to their room, so they can rob him. Rusty Nail responds to Candy's summons. When Rob answers the door, Rusty realizes he's been tricked and takes the pair captive. Rob and Candy are chained to each other and the axle of Rusty Nail's truck. He takes them to a deserted stretch of Highway 17 and tells them he will let them go if they can hang onto the hood of the truck for a mile. If one of them falls, the other will be pulled off the truck by the chain, and both will die under the truck. He tapes a bag of meth to the windshield of his truck, telling them they can have the drugs after they make it. After riding awhile, Rob calls out that they have ridden for at least a mile, and Rusty Nail agrees. Thinking they have made it, Candy reaches for the bag of drugs; her chain is pulled into the axle, and she and Rob are both pulled underneath the still-moving truck and killed. Later, the authorities are called to the scene; Officer Williams, a newly appointed deputy, wants to investigate further, but is encouraged by Officer Jenkins to make it an open-and-shut case.
Racecar drivers Jordon and Austin, along with their team -- Jewel (manager and Jordon's girlfriend), Mickey (mechanic and pit crew chief), Alisa (PR), and Bobby (groupie) -- are caravanning from Kansas to Canada so that they can compete in the Road Rally 1000; they have an SUV with a flatbed trailer for the racecar, and walkie-talkies to communicate from car to car. When they stop at Headingley Grill for lunch, Austin finds Highway 17 on a map; he discovers that it would shorten their journey by a day and give them more time to get the lay of the land. When they ask a creepy truck driver, Barry, for directions, he warns them against taking 17; he tells them it's called "Slaughter Alley" (which the cops at the scene of Rob and Candy's deaths also claimed), and tells them the story of Rusty Nail, who has become something of an urban legend. Jenkins stops in for a cup of coffee and denies Barry's claims, encouraging them to take 17. Barry tells them that stretch of highway is unpatrolled, which appeals to Austin, who wants to be able to test the limits of their car on open road, so they agree to go that way.
Austin drives the racecar and Jordon, Jewel, and Alisa ride along. They tease Austin about a wreck he had previously gotten in. This is clearly a sore subject for Austin, who vents his frustration by messing with a truck driver (who just happens to be Rusty Nail) and then speeding off. Jordon makes Austin pull over and takes the driver's seat; just as they catch up to Mickey and Bobby in the SUV, Rusty Nail catches up to the group and starts laying on his horn. When Jordon tries to let him pass, he boxes them in, switching lanes so neither car can get around him. Jordon gets around, but as Mickey tries to pass, Rusty rams the flatbed trailer, causing it to detach from the SUV and run off the road. He then tailgates Jordon, who dodges to get out of the way of an oncoming station wagon; when Rusty tries to do the same, he jackknifes. Jewel and Alisa try to convince Jordon to stop, but he refuses, worried a mark on his record will cost them the race. Rusty checks a camera he has mounted to the front of the truck, identifying Jordon's license number, and then uses the CB to hail them; he has found their website and now knows exactly who they all are, threatening to make them pay for what they did. Jordon disregards his threats, and the team continues on.
Night falls, and the group stops at a gas station. Everyone is at odds over how to proceed. After Jewel fights with Jordon, she and Austin leave in the SUV to go to the police, as the others continue on in the racecar. Rusty Nail catches up to Jewel and Austin and tries to run them off the road; they desperately try to call Jordon for help on the walkie-talkie, which doesn't work on Jordon's end (as Barry warned them might happen). Rusty runs them off the road and puts their unconscious bodies in the back of his truck. Just then, the gang in the racecar gets their signals back and worry when they can't reach Jewel and Austin.
Rusty takes Jewel and Austin to a deserted field, and then kills Austin by putting his hands and then face through the engine fan of his truck. He then calls Jordon on the walkie-talkie, telling him he'll trade Jewel and Austin for the racecar. Rusty instructs Jordon to come to an old warehouse in an hour; Jordon and the others devise a plan to ensure that Rusty Nail will not double cross them, as Rusty torments Jewel. Meanwhile, Officer Williams finds the wrecked and abandoned SUV.
Jordon, Mickey, Alisa and Bobby arrive at the warehouse and split up; Alisa stays with the car, Bobby and Mickey go around the perimeter, and Jordon heads inside. After a tense search of the warehouse, during which Rusty kidnaps Bobby, Rusty flees in the truck. Jordon, Mickey, and Alisa follow in the racecar. When they come across a police cruiser, they pull over to find Jenkins; after convincing him of their story with a photo Rusty sent of Jules, he agrees to help them catch up to Rusty Nail. However, Rusty comes out of nowhere and obliterates Jenkins and his cruiser; Jordon, Mickey, and Alisa give chase. Meanwhile, Officer Williams encounters a truck weaving recklessly, and flags it down; however, it's a driver for a meat packing plant on a rush to deliver his cargo. When Williams searches the cargo, he finds parts of Austin's body; the driver claims he picked up a "rogue load" from a fellow trucker who needed help, but Williams subdues him and tries to hail Jenkins on the CB. He then tells dispatch he's bringing the meat truck driver in. Later he finds the burning wreckage of Jenkins' cruiser.
Rusty contacts Jordon, and kills Bobby as the group listens helplessly over the walkie-talkie. Rusty then tells Jordon to meet him at a junkyard and give himself up; only then will he set Jewel and Austin free. Mickey wants to go get help instead, and forces Jordon off the road; he tries to convince Alisa to come with him, but she refuses and leaves with Jordon to go save their friends. Mickey goes for help on foot; he finds the truck parked on a side road, and is overpowered by Rusty Nail. Rusty crushes Mickey's head in a wench, then lights the semi-trailer of his truck on fire, driving off in just the tractor unit.
Jordon sends Alisa to go get help and enters the junkyard alone. Jewel's screams draw him into the final showdown with Rusty Nail. The two fight, as Rusty indicates Jewel is trapped in a dangling car about to be crushed. Just as it seems Rusty has the upper hand, Alisa runs him over with the racecar, and she and Jordon go to rescue Jewel from the crusher. However, Jordon finds the video camera in the trunk of the crushed car; it is playing previously shot footage of Jewel. It's revealed that Rusty Nail tied her to the roof of the truck and ran her into the girders of a steel bridge, killing her.
Enraged, Jordon and Alisa get in the car to go find Rusty Nail, but he rams into them, trying to crush them. Alisa's leg is stuck, keeping her from getting out. Jordon runs to a nearby wrecking claw and uses it to put Rusty's truck in the crusher, with Rusty inside. Later, however, when Williams and his men investigate, Rusty Nail is nowhere to be found. The film ends with Rusty Nail hitching a ride with another truck driver.

Review: Overall, exactly what you would expect from the third movie in a series that didn't need a sequel to begin with.
They decide to take a shortcut through a lonely road and when they surpass the truck of Rusty Nail (Ken Kirzinger), the psychopathic trucker hunts the down and captures each one of them to torture and kill."Joy Ride 3" is an awful collection of clichés with the usual stupidities of the characters and situations and omnipresence of the indestructible villain.
The car has a flat tire when the driver is not near his friends; the cellular never work when the group is in danger; the group splits and tries to rescue the friend that is in danger instead of calling the police; the killer does not die and is always one step ahead of the group; the girl leaves a safe position to help the good guy and only jeopardizes the situation; the police officers take always the most stupid attitude to die.
I found the original Joy Ride mediocre, but it was successful enough in order to have a straight-to-DVD sequel (Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead), which abandoned the road movie/thriller premise in order to belong to the horror genre.
And now, Joy Ride 3 attempts to resurrect the franchise putting the emphasis on the villain; the result is mediocre, but moderately entertaining.
The characters are slightly more intelligent and less irritating than in other horror films, something which creates a reasonable level of suspense; but the screenplay lies too much on improbable coincidences and on the villain's almost supernatural capacity to always be one step ahead of the victims.
And in that way, jumping through logical holes and employing trite situations (including the obligatory personal conflicts and romantic tension), the film advances by fits and starts, even though that doesn't avoid the movie from being tolerable.
So, even though I didn't find Joy Ride 3 a very good movie, I can give it a slight recommendation, and I would place it above the second film of the saga and at the same level of the first one.
And to the fans of J.J. Abrams', don't waste the opportunity of seeing this famous director's name in the credits of a mediocre straight-to-DVD sequel (he was a co- screenwriter of the original Joy Ride, and he keeps receiving the "Inspired on characters created by" credit; I'm sure that his publicist must have nightmares in that regard)..
The cops get involved as well, but Rusty is always a step ahead.Joy Ride 3 offers some thrills, some gore, a bit of nudity, some good country music.
Like many horror movies this one too, would have been better had they filmed everything during day light.
Overall, Joy Ride 3 is a decent sequel, it doesn't stand out, it's not terrible nor particularly good.
They annoy a truck driver who then gets his revenge in rather sadistic ways...Just from that summary you'll know this movie is hardly original.
The latter half of the movie is pretty much just Saw (or one of its zillion sequels).So nothing new, and just more sadistic violence for the sake of it.
At times it is extremely gory with some SAW like scenes which I'm not sure add a great deal to the movie.
First i need to apologize to my brain,my eyes and my ears after watching this movie.The only thing that is good about this movie is that now i know that i have watched the worst movie ever.This is crime to the first joy ride.
I cant even decide what is the worst part of the movie...Is it director,is it acting,is it story...I watched good movies and i watched the bad ones.I watched stupid movies,i watched movies that made me hate myself for weeks after watching.
But this goes beyond.Joy ride 3 was so bad that it made me want to claw my eyes out.I don't want to waste any more time on this movie by telling you how bad it is,because it would take me forever...Sorry for my bad English and PLEASE don't watch this movie..
The original Joyride is one of my favorite horror films/thrillers: lots of tension and though it was a little derivative of The Hitcher and Duel, it had enough originality to keep you guessing as to what happens next.
I watched the first sequel (even though it was a direct-to-video) and it was pretty bad, but this one is terrible.
Rusty Nail is no longer mysterious; he's on full view here and is thus just another slasher killing for no reason (other than being cut off in traffic by one of the characters).
Joy Ride is something different from other horror movie styles period.
I really liked this one, because we finally see some gore-scenes and just brutal deaths from the "psychopath Rusty nail killer, torturer".
Which was different in this one, previous ones just show how "scary Rusty nail can be" now we see really dark side of him, which is good and different and refreshing.
All though I think some deaths are just unnecessary and just poorly planned.Story isn't nothing special, some racing crew got to face Rusty and yeah...
Overall I liked the movie, but there is some flaws, I don't want to spoil anything here, just see it, it's not disappointing..
The movie would have been better if they didn't make the driver and his trucks supernatural.
This was perhaps my least favorite of the Joy Ride movies, as the psychotic truck driver Rusty Nail returns for his third go-round.
This time, a bunch of car racers head down the "Bermuda Triangle" highway that Rusty Nail haunts, draw his ire, and he starts pursuing them.
The "tricks" aren't as fresh as they were in the first movies, and a couple torture scenes and scenes with victims on top of the trucks were a bit unpleasant to watch.
Just watch this if you're curious about the Joy Ride movies.** out of ****.
RELEASED TO VIDEO IN 2014 and directed by Declan O'Brien, "Joy Ride 3: Roadkill" depicts horrific events on the backroads of the American prairie when a youthful racing crew on their way to Road Rally 1000 mess with the wrong trucker, Rusty Nail.Rusty Nail obviously moved from his former location in the desert wilderness far outside Las Vegas, Nevada, to the lonesome prairies of Texas (note his license plate and the Kansas plates of the racers).
Kirsten Prout and Leela Savasta are effective in the feminine department with Kirsten being particularly adorable, but both need to gain at least 12-15 lbs.This is the first movie that reveals Rusty from the get-go (Ken Kirzinger), which is interesting, but they should've kept his identity a mystery IMHO, like in "Duel" and the first two movies, not that it matters much.
Based on no less than 3 sequels in the "Wrong Turn" franchise, 1 sequel in the "Joyride" franchise and 1 bizarre creature-feature experiment called "Sharktopus", I think it's safe to assume that director Declan O'Brien will probably never win any Academy Awards, but you can definitely rest assured that his films deliver lots of deranged monsters/psychopaths, nauseating gore effects and excruciatingly painful on-screen death sequences!
And, as I'm sure many horror genre fanatics will agree with me, sometimes those are exactly all the things you require in order to have a good time!
The plot of "Joyride 3: Road Kill" – hardly an imaginative subtitle, by the way – is a non-stop spitfire of the most derivative and overused horror clichés.
The simple truth is that "Joyride 3" is about a psycho-trucker who goes after a bunch of amateur street racers because they nearly drove him off the road.
That "Sharktopus" thing is an insult to the intellect to every living creature, but the "Wrong Turn" sequels are fun and so is "Joyride 3"..
Come to think of it the only OK thing in the whole movie was the gore killing and even with that I didn't find myself thrilled, scared or excited.
I enjoyed the first two "Joy Ride" movies, so I was definitely up to watching the third one when it came my way.
It may be because Rusty Nail in this entry seems more of a mindless psychopath instead of the scarily intelligent brute of the first two movies.
It may be because the movie gives us several looks at Rusty Nail's face instead of hiding it like the first two movies.
i give a 6 to this one, cos they are not much horror road movies, but i give the first one a big 8, cos it was a pretty decent acting and cast.
like final destination saga , or screams, some are better , some are at the bottom of the list, but of the 3 films, this one is second for me in quality.
the intro is the best of all three by the way, wotrh watching if u like and love horror road movies.
maybe it's time for rusty nail to be replaced by another character.
With a taut, intelligent script and imaginative on location shooting, he creates an atmosphere of true dread in which the characters fight for their very lives as they do battle with the notorious trucker known as Rusty Nails.
This film does have its fair share of gore and horror but that does not take precedence over plot and character development.
Of course we know this is the road traveled by Rusty Nail, the villainous trucker obsessed with both his CB radio and destroying anyone that dares insult him.
Our core group of young people cut off Rusty Nail, played by yet another actor after the previous two entries.
And Rusty is a much more present villain here, as we actually see him committing the violent acts that were usually kept off screen in the first movie.
And the kills here are unique and genuinely creative, even impressive, especially for a straight-to-DVD flick directed by a guy that makes his living doing cheap sequels to theatrical releases.I'll also say that the movie is fairly unpredictable and you generally won't know exactly who will die and when.
The supporting cast is fair, the effects are pretty solid, and the movie is generally pretty good, if not great.
The second movie, which made the dubious decision to try and force Joy Ride into the then popular "torture porn" sub-genre, was pretty terrible.
I was hoping that this film would at least try to emulate the suspense of first Joy Ride movie but alas it is by the numbers gore fest about a psychotic trucker killing anyone whom he perceives has wronged him in some way or other.
Whilst there were sparks of promise ultimately the movie lacks an interesting plot and story and relies on gore and blood spattering to carry it through.
In a nutshell this movie is about a bunch of friends and members of a car racing team going to Canada for a race.
Another problem is that in the first Joy Ride film, the trucker was a menacing presence and a person who felt wronged and was seeking revenge however misguided.
In this film the trucker is just psychopathic and just wants to kill.
The acting is basically OK for a bunch of unknown actors and the effects are decent enough for a low budget movie, but overall this is a mostly forgettable movie that doesn't have much to offer in terms of suspense or a story line..
Him making an appearance is something that changes a dynamic a bit with this film, from the beginning point it's something different and leaves a "Hmm wonder what can come from this showcase of him vs him being a shadow figure you don't see." point.One thing I'm noticing is the other reviews of "They threw just some gravel at him." From that he hunts them down.
If you look at it from an unraveling point of his psyche it's an interesting take that does explain parts of this.The problems I have with the movie, the plot develops...Slow...There isn't tons of it but what is there is a slow drag through the story, I'm sitting at over an hour in and I'm wondering if much more is going to happen, 5 bodies down, 2 of them at once so took part of it away, another is just a car smash.
The plus side is the kills that are interest are just that interesting, doing things just like the joy ride style of ouch when you watch it happen, the sound effects on one particular kill are just bone crunching goodness.Part of the ending also kinda made me kinda eh, I know realism isn't something every movie is to come close to, but after being hit by the car that hard, you get up like nothing?
I was almost hoping Rusty Nail would kill them all off.
The guy in this movie was NOT Rusty Nail.
The only things I can think of that I liked about this movie, were the atmosphere, and the death scenes.
Yes, some of the deaths could make a person cringe, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.If you're hoping for mindless violence/gore, this movie is for you.
With that being said, I was surprised to see that a new Joy Ride movie was out.
The first scene consists of Rusty Nail ( who is now full view in camera and is played by a terrible actor ) chaining two meth addicts to his semi, he tapes a bag of meth to the wind shield just out of their reach.
They have to travel a mile on the front of the semi and Rusty Nail says he will stop the truck...
Pretty Dreadful Sequel To The Joy Ride Series.
What was supposed to be a non-eventful road trip has now turned into a deadly cat-and-mouse game for survival.This will be a pretty short review because in all honesty there isn't much to write about Joy Ride 3.
Joy Ride 2 wasn't a patch on the first movie but it was still a watchable film.
This one however, well, let's just be polite and say it's gone to the opposite end of Joy Ride.There is plenty of gore but not much of a storyline, so at least the splatter fans might get something out of the movie.
There's the usual casting of stereotypical characters as well....street racer jock types along with their stick insect scream queen girlfriends, and of course the now indestructible serial killer, Rusty Nail.This only JUST made it into a 3-star rating for me purely because some of the scenes are not too bad.
The characters are borderline awful and the entire film exists for no other reason than to flex their gore muscles and kill off hapless victims.
It was sort of nice to have "Rusty Nail" the original killer return but he isn't even remotely the same as he was.
Whereas in the original he was dark, mysterious, quiet and killed from the shadows in number 3 he is over the top, in your face and anything but mysterious.Honestly, I don't know whether the problem with this cast is they are poor actors or if the script simply gives them nothing in the way of character development.
Hollingsworth doesn't hold a candle to Paul Walker from the original and he does have one or two decent scenes where he performs adequately but the script which only wants Rusty Nail to dismember and kill prevents him from doing anything significant with the role.
Ken Kirzinger gives the best performance in the movie (that's not saying much but he does) as our killer "Rusty Nail." He's no stranger to horror and he is a legendary stunt co-coordinator.
Why anyone would hand the reigns over to a director and writer with such little experience and he has single handedly taken the reigns of the Wrong Turn series which has become ridiculous (although an absolutely insanely fun guilty little pleasure.) He has no handle on what the original film stood for with horror fans and this could have been any new horror flick and not held the Joyride name (although haphazardly Rusty Nail mentions "Candy Cane"...a nod to Walker's CB handle from the original.
The reason I score this a solid six is because the film ends up being campy and entertaining and the big battle at the end is actually well shot with good special effects and definitely follows the tried and true recipe of a slasher movie.
not only this movie but this entire genre of sadism and killing ...
*Spoilers* but who cares, this review is better than watching the movie!!.
That's where I turned off the movie, I did not watch passed that part!!
IT PISSSED ME OFF WHEN RUSTY NAIL(truck drivers name forgot to mention that earlier) KILLED THE BLOND GIRL LIKE THAT!!!.
This is also why the most sequels are made for horror films.
So they started making straight to DVD horror film sequels.
Its original was the 2001 film Joy Ride with Paul Walker and Steve Zahnn.
The story Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000 Canada.
As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, an encounter with Rusty turns sour and soon he is tracking, teasing and torturing them until the end of the road.
Oh and the film is pretty bloody, and the slasher scenes are depicted well, there's one with a hand which looks really good and one with someone getting tied to a truck.
It is very good comeback, again, for Rusty Nail.
Have to just say, Rusty is very raw and bloody in this movie.
Anyway, I have been watched two previous Joy Ride movies.