Curve

Plot synopsis:
Mallory (Julianne Hough) is a young bride-to-be on her way to Denver for her wedding rehearsal. She video chats with her sister, Ella (Penelope Mitchell), on her way there. Ella tells her that she hasn't bought her plane tickets yet because she wants to make sure Mallory is actually in love and happy with her decisions. Mallory responds by telling her she's happy in a fake voice. She hangs up with her sister and continues driving. A few minutes later, her car breaks down unexpectedly. She tries calling AAA, but she has no service. She also tries doing some tricks under the hood of the car, but to no avail.
While Mallory tries changing her clothes near the back of the car, she spots a man, Christian (Teddy Sears). She quickly puts on a tank top and tells him her situation. He eventually gets her car started for her. She then says she would offer him a ride, but was in a rush. She starts to drive away but, out of guilt, stops and offers him a ride.
Along the way, he starts acting odd. He talks about how fate brought them together and how it was supposed to happen like this. He then tells her how she couldn't "deepthroat his huge cock". She then stops and tells him to get out. He pulls out a knife and tells her to drive.
She notices his seat belt is off and tries to kill him by speeding towards a guardrail near a curve. They crash violently. Mallory wakes up to find the car upside down. She unhooks her seat belt, but she can't get out. She notices her leg is caught and pinned between the seat, all bloody. She tries pushing out, but fails. Christian slowly wakes up and tells her she needs to get herself out of this one and leaves her. She tries honking her horn and screaming for help but no one can hear her.
Mallory slips on a hoodie and drinks the last bit of her water bottle. The following morning Christian comes back and eats and drinks in front of her. He tells her how this was supposed to happen and how fate is a funny thing. That night a bunch of rats come in and slather around her. She kills one of them and eats a strip of its meat and drinks her own urine. Christian comes back and tells her how he's holding a family hostage and pretending to be a police officer. He then gives her a saw. At first Mallory thinks he gave it to her to cut through the seat, but he tells her he doesn't expect it to and how if she doesn't cut off her leg she's going to die.
That night a huge rainstorm hits and Christian comes to say his goodbyes but she attacks him and throws his car keys outside to where he can't find them. A police car pulls up from the curve, he runs and tells the officer his car won't start. The officer tells him he'll give him a ride but hears Mallory's scream. The officer thinks he's imagining things and drives away with Christian.
The car starts to flood and she starts trying to cut her leg off, but barely makes a few superficial cuts before her leg comes free out of the seat due to the assistance of the flood. She makes it out and goes to the cabin where Christian says he was at. She discovers he killed the police officer and the parents and he's keeping the daughter Katie hostage. She aims a gun she found and tells him if he moves, she shoots. He attacks Mallory as Katie runs out the front door. Mallory twists his nose and elbows his stomach before running. She hides under a table, he finds her and she gets up and runs. He smashes her into a mirror but she manages to keep him down on the ground long enough for her to run upstairs. Christian looks for her upstairs, but Mallory sneaks from behind a dresser, creeps behind him and pushes him off of a second-story balcony and he falls and crushes his leg into a bear trap. She limps downstairs and gives him his knife and tells him how fate really brought this together and she's going to give him the same chance that he gave her. Christian soon succumbs to his wound and dies. The final scene shows Mallory limping down the road with Katie as the front door of the house slams shut.

Tags: murder

Review:
It is exactly what it looks like, a survival type movie with some horror mixed in.
With that said though it's not terrible, it held my attention throughout, the acting was good enough, and the ending was fairly thrilling.I didn't hate the film, however it is one of those movies that I will eventually forget about.
If you want something simple to watch as a time killer you could probably do better than this, but you could do worse as well.5/10.
As survival films go, this one isn't bad but doesn't bring anything new to the table.
That said, the twist ending is a nice surprise although most of the film plods along quite predictably.
There's some great acting and impressive cinematography, so I assume there was a decent budget for this movie.
The script was entertaining though and evoked a real sympathy for the characters, so it's worth a watch if you enjoy this genre..
Pretty decent survival movie..
If I had to compare this to another movie it would be "Open Water" except in a car with a killer instead of a shark and a more satisfying ending.
In essence this is more of a slow survival movie with a faster paced "survivor girl vs killer" finish.All of the production, acting, directing, etc are well done.
However, as others have mentioned it doesn't really bring anything new to the table, but then again, does any movie these days?In the end I liked it.
If you like movies like "Open Water" and "127 Hours" then this is probably worthy of a watch..
Have you ever watched a movie, particularly a horror movie or thriller, in which you really didn't like the protagonist?
This was that type of movie.Mallory's (Juliane Hough) car breaks down on her way to Denver from San Francisco.
She returns the favor by giving him a ride and lo and behold he's not such a good guy.This rehashed, good-looking-bad-dude-whom-you-trusted plot is so tired and they did nothing to make it likable.
Then couple that with her hoarse voice and she became more annoying.This movie was replete with a flimsy predictable plot, impossibly absurd lead character and bad acting.
This was a movie I just wanted to end...
I even began to question if this is a horror movie or not.3rd: the acting was in my opinion bad.
Whenever a movie fails to deliver some horror parts it goes the torture porn direction and tries to get away.
Intense Decent thriller..Julianne delivers the best!!.
Greetings from Lithuania.Short summary of horror/thriller "Curve" (2015):*Isolated scene = cheap settings +check.*Few chills here and there and some dead bodies to get "horror" rating +check.*Psychopath with a paper thin "killing philosophy" (some crumbs left from "Se7en") +check.*Few actors to make this situation look even more isolated = small costs for cast +check.* Uniformally OK acting for this material for a quick paycheck +check.*Descent director that will make this average screenplay into a watchable movie +check.*Running time 1 h 19 min which you will forget as soon as the same amount of time will elapse +check.
This movie changed my opinion of her acting skills.
I always give any movie five minutes to convince me to watch it.
It is so predictable, you can talk your way through the movie right from the start.
Mallory offers Christian a lift (after initially thinking it best not to).
Mallory takes the drastic action of crashing the car and ends up with her leg trapped and unable to get out.
Christian however, even though he was thrown from the car and did not have a seat belt on comes out of it much better than she does and literally walks away.She is then basically stuck in the car behaving like a pathetic whinging child as he comes and goes for around five days.
She also somehow manages to pee in a bottle and drink it even though she has had water.It just goes on and on.My one positive is the acting skills of Teddy Sears, he's excellent in the role of a psycho baddie.
However, the main character (Hough) made a lot of smart moves.
All in all, it was a good, simple movie.
A recent example of a successful film like this was '127 Hours', and it's no coincidence that 'Curve' is very similar and also a very good movie.
The human will and desire to survive at all cost always makes for fascinating viewing, and this case is no exception.There's more to it than just that aspect of the film though.
Do not expect anything surprising out of this movie.
It is so full of clichés that the whole movie could be predicted correctly from the first ten minutes.
3/4 of the movie is the same scene with the girl's leg stuck in a crashed car and the "bad guy" torturing her.
There is little character development or reasoning behind the killings of the "bad guy." The only thing you know about the protagonist is that she is going to see her fiancé in Denver, CO coming from San Francisco, LA when, surprisingly enough, her car breaks down.
Average Movie, unlikeable Protagonist, Watch it while doing something else..
Have you ever watched a movie so bad you were cheering for the bad guy?
The protagonist in this movie is a girl on her way to Denver to get married.
Like any bad horror movie, she decides to take the path less traveled and ends up stranded with a broken car.
Enter seemingly nice guy who helps her fix it and that's where the movie begins.
I was intrigued in the beginning, the movie adds refreshing spin to the stranger-danger tale but it runs into the same problem all horror movies based on recycled plots usually do: how to make the end interesting and memorable.
Few scenes are thrown in, seemingly randomly, to make the scenario realistic but it comes off as an after-thought and doesn't work well with the theme of the movie.
All in all, I kept thinking throughout the movie "that isn't what happens in real life" and "what a dumb move" skip it, if you ask me.
In the scene where the deputy stopped to help Christian, you could hear over the police radio, "suspect Mallory height, weight"...etc.
As a great suspense/thriller/horror fan, I give this movie only 2 star just for the first half cause it had everything to be a great suspense horror survival movie...but it didnt developed that way...it even had some flaws with some definitely poor decisions just to keep the movie going...so they can make the movie be an hour and a half...I mean...cops sitting on the top of the rock and she did not put the hand on horn...she goes exactly at the cabin where he is at....an officer is missing a whoooole day and no one bothers to search for him!?!?
I mean gooosh...the movie was like it was made by a teenager who was bored spending his mommy and daddy's money.You can watch the first half and than just turn it off....
Because let's keep it real, if you know you are watching a thriller, you know that picking up a hitchhiker: never a good idea.
Maybe someone should have told our main actress that (actually she knew, because she read the script).But what happens after a very quick revelation (bad guys are not always subtle and the movie knows audience might get bored if they know a character is bad but tries to hold it together), is what matters.
The movie gets into another drive.
In many movies like this, the character(s) take obvious dumb choices.
Why would they write something where the character has almost no chance of survival?
Movies should have Realistic, and Common sense scenarios.
Was this a Straight to DVD movie or was this actually released in cinemas?!
The bad Horror movies of my Childhood were better than this.
Julianne hough is sexy looking, if you like that Nordic look and Mormon girls(I'm half black, lol), but She can't Act, and It's not worth my time or money.
Regarding this movie, it seemed like the writers/producers colluded and thought "hey, how can we make some money with weak quality, lazy effort project and a C-List actress and A Male Actor who Looks like He could be Her BROTHER, rather than her Lover?
If Writing is bad, no good actor can do it justice.
What kind of Lazy, selfish fiancé would EXPECT his woman to drive alone, to meet him?
The writers CHOSE this unrealistic scenario which ruins the Whole movie.
This is the sort of movie that has everything you want with a little bit extra..
This movie is the epitome of a white knuckle film.
This was helped greatly by the actors in the movie.
To add on, the scenario in which the movie took place seems very probable as well.
This helped build on the fear of the movie.
The final thing that made this movie great was the amount of plot holes in the story line, or the lack there of.
The main "bad guy" did a lot of things that felt very unnatural, but if you look further into the character development you could see that he was a very impulsive man.
"Curve" stars Julianne Hough (TV's "Dancing With The Stars") as a bride-to-be who veers way off track with an unhinged hitchhiker on an ill-advised back road detour to the wedding.Pretty standard fare madman-menaces-beautiful girl (and Hough stays STAGGERINGLY so even after being beat up in an over the cliff car crash) fare with some pretty fair acting from the damsel in DEEP distress.
I will make mention however that even in this modest movie I expected more from the ending than the cath...no, wait.
This film has a slow start, but just enjoy the beautiful cinematography because you will soon be catapulted into a true horror story.
Sears is a glorious creeper, although he may actually overdo it a little bit towards the end of the film.
Mallory Rutledge (Julianne Hough) is driving her fiancé's truck to Denver to meet him and get married.
However the gentle drifter Christian Laughton (Teddy Sears) offers to fix the car and Mallory accepts.
Mallory sees that the psychopath Christian is not wearing the seat bell and decides to throw the truck off the road in a curve.
But the leg of Mallory is trapped in the overturned car and Christian leaves her without any help, in the beginning of Mallory's worst nightmare.
"Curve" is a tense low-budget thriller with good performances of Teddy Sears and Julianne Hough.
I love survival movies, so I had high hopes on this one....
To be honest, I was kind of getting a little bored with her trapped in the car for a lot of the film.
The ending was pretty good, although I think it would have been awesome to see her confront her fiancé about the stuff she found in the truck.
It's something to watch to pass time, but it's kind of a forgettable film..
I liked this film and found it to be pretty entertaining and suspenseful.
I thought the acting was good from the Lead Woman and the Man who played the Bad Guy.The Supporting cast were Okay but the Lead women and the Man who played the bad guy were The Best.
This Is a Survival Horror Thriller and I thought the story was told well.
The Film starts off with a woman who's car breaks down and a hitchhiker stops to help her fix her car and to repay him the women gives him a Lift.
The Man seems like a genuinely Nice guy but the women soon finds out this man isn't as nice as he appears to be when he starts saying Nasty Things to her.What starts out as a Survival Thriller escalates and by the end it becomes a Brutal Thriller.
This film had some really Tense scenes in it that I enjoyed watching.
I also Liked the Location the Film was Shot in I thought it was a good looking place.
I liked the Music in the film too.
I personally liked the Lead Woman and I wanted her to survive,I found her to be a strong and likable Character and I Liked her determination to survive.I also liked how she played the bad guy at his own game.
The Women put up a good fight and she stood up to the bad guy and I like that she did that because it showed she wasn't just your typical damsel in distress.The women was actually Smart and she knew what she was doing,and she had to do some pretty Crazy things to survive like eat animals among other stuff.
I thought the River scene was very Exciting and intense and definitely a memorable scene.I also really Enjoyed the Ending to this Film when the women finds out the Man is a killer and she Fights Him. The killer was definitely a Crazy Psycho and the actor who played him Did a very good job.
The Film had a bit of a slow start but the Last Half was Brutal and intense!
The Film also has a few twists Toward the End that I did not see coming.
The Ending Score Was pretty good and it fit the Film like a Glove because it kept the same Dark Atmosphere The Film Had. Overall This Film was Decent and I recommend it..
It is probably a good film at best.
I even wondered if I would end up finishing the movie.
I also admit my reasons for going into it were pretty shallow and that is my crush on Julianne Hough.
Also I scored this film an 8 because I thoroughly enjoyed it and was entertained AND its one of those almost "one-person" survival films (think Brake or Buried or Freezer) but this film has two main players (one being a nut-job) and a few supporting characters hardly seen.
Most of this film rides on Hough surviving and she pulls it off.
The film's pace is perfect because its incredibly short (run time of about 1 hour and 17 minutes) but it works for the movie.
Its believable and actually pretty intense.I guess I already sort of covered Julianne Hough's performance but this is really good for her.
He is literally near perfect in this role and maybe overplays it just a tad but it works for this movie.
I suppose you can't give a film too high a rating for being significantly better than you thought but I actually very much enjoyed it.
It entertained me and definitely kept me on the edge of my seat and had a couple of good twists and turns.
It won't be one that I will forget right away and that's definitely saying something for this genre, cast and film.
A bit slow starting out and then an intended car crash turns things upside down.
Mallory (Jullianne Hough) is a young bride-to-be on her way to Denver and contemplating the pros and cons of her upcoming marriage, when she has car troubles taking the scenic route.
She gets help from a charming hitchhiker named Christian (Teddy Sears), who out of the blue becomes a naughty guy causing Mallory to wreck her car on purpose with hopes of escaping the man.
The nice looking young woman becomes trapped upside down in the overturned vehicle and Christian turns into a full blown terrorizing psychopath.
Below Average movie.
Not really memorable.Mostly nothing happens throughout the movie, she is stuck in the car and he mentally tortures her by doing nothing to help, It gets annoying after a while.After 5 days of being stuck in an awkward position, having nothing to eat and little to drink she is still strong enough to go and get revenge on him and that's the first thing she does..
But any worries this may be Baywatch soon dissipate.Mallory (Julianne Hough) is driving around the Grand Canyon, when her car breaks down.
Christian (Teddy Sears) helps out, and she gives him a lift to the motel where he is staying.
His slow, methodical taunting of Mallory is sadistic and measured, underlining the fact he likes to be in complete control of the situation - especially when Mallory deliberately crashes the car and becomes trapped inside, while Christian is free and happy to leave her to suffer.As time goes on, the punishing imprisonment means many demeaning moments for Mallory, but just as luck seems to reach an all-time low, she might just be alright.
And that's after 48 hours trapped upside down in a car.Stretching credibility as it does, this nevertheless has some tense and harrowing moments, and the acting is excellent throughout – especially as the bulk of the film is essentially a two-hander..
As luck would have it a hiker appears who gets her car started again, after he takes his shirt off for no good reason.
Finally the rain gets really bad and the river moves the car.
Mallory limps to the very same cabin, discovers what's going on there and will have to confront the bad guy eventually.Curve is one of those very minimalistic thrillers--two actors and most of the movie taking place in just one setting.
And even though acting isn't Julianne Hough's talent, the movie works.
The unfortunate lesson the movie wants to teach though is don't be good to strangers.
Mallory (Julianne Hough) is traveling on alternate route 92 near I-80 in Utah.
Her Ford breaks down and she gets help from a nice clean cut hiker, Christian Laughton (Teddy Sears) of 1419 Harriet St. Topeka, Kansas.
At this point we can pretty much predict what will happen, including the ending, minus a few details.For much of the film, it consists of Mallory trapped in a vehicle.
If you like those one man formula films, this one has that going for it.Guide: F-bomb.