![]() ![]() The six victim characters are split up into pairs, and then into singles, to be picked off one by one. Since the fan belt on one of the cars broke overnight, some of the kids try to drive on to the game while others remain behind. There’s more trickery, building and diffusing of tension several times, as we wait for the story to kick into high gear. There seems to be a human hand sticking up from the pile, but the weasely guy who does the carcase-dumping shows them that it’s just a mannequin. It turns out to be a dumping ground for roadkill. In the morning, the two girls can’t resist finding the source of the stench (yeah, right). And there’s a creepy truck that pulls up in front of them, but backs away when Nick throws a bottle and breaks one of the headlights. When the kids decide to pull over and camp for the night, they sometimes smell an awful stench from the woods. But his character sticks out in the viewer’s mind, while most of the others are forgettable. He has a hard edge, and no one else likes him very much. Nick (Murray) is the brother of Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), and he and his buddy are the odd men out, along for the ride because he just got out of the slammer, and his sister is being nice to him. There’s some interaction between them, in order to give us minimal character development. Six young 20s kids (two couples and two excess males), caravaning in two vehicles, are on their way to a college football game. A characterization scene in which someone is working on a life-size, human female wax figure, in particular sculpting the breasts (this is the only explicit nudity in the film). Okay, so we’re borrowing a page from “Psycho”…parental abuse.Ĭut to present day. And when he scratches his mother, she slaps him hard across the face. He pulls so hard on his restraints that he draws blood from his own wrists. Their faces are never seen but one keeps quiet and eats his cereal, while the parents have to strap the other one down. In the grabber opener, set in 1974, two young boys are in high-chairs. Fairly easy to infer that this would be a violent, gross-out fest. A theme and plot which, based on the advance publicity, was pure exploitation. A cast ranging from Chad Michael Murray ( Hilary Duff’s romantic interest in “A Cinderella Story”) to Paris Hilton. ![]()
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