Rest Stop: Don't Look Back
One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the stretch of old highway with a mysterious Rest Stop, where they find themselves in the same predicament as Nicole and Jesse: confronting a madman.
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- Cast：
- Richard Tillman , Jessie Ward , Graham Norris , Joey Mendicino , Julie Mond , Brionne Davis , Diane Salinger
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Powerful
Beautiful, moving film.
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
I love B horror films, they're among m favorite sub-genre, but that being said...Tom, on leave from the Army, goes to find out who killed his sister and her boyfriend (as told in the superior yet merely watchable first Rest Stop film) The original was incredibly clichéd and unoriginal, but it went about its task we'll enough. Part duex can't even do that right. The story is wildly disjointed and not entertaining in the least bit. I couldn't bring myself giving a toss about any of these morons and thus was not invested in any part of the film, which seemed to drag on forever.Eye Candy: Jessie Ward gets briefly topless My Grade: D-
To say that this movie was not as good as the first and then say not bad, indicates that the first had some redeeming value to it all. Let me assure you. This one is better then the first, but thats like saying poo w/ peanuts is better then plain poo.It is completely predictable and the characters are about as likable as a string of small pox. Making the same stoopid mistakes that horror characters have done for the past 50 years. You would think that given the fact that this movie happens in present day the characters would at least acknowledge.."Hey we are dealing with spooky bad people. What happens to people who take they're eyes off the ghost or when we send someone to get something, by themselves? oh right....we get effed real good." Its bad enough that these characters are complete underdogs in this flick. At least try and make it interesting by having them make educated choices. At least make the lopsided fight somewhat interesting. Nope not this poop with peanuts of a movie. There is so much more to get into with this 88 minute waste of time. I just feel as though if I spend any more time on it then the "Driver" has claimed too much of my life as well.My rating for this flick....I give it an "A-holes" Means avoid this movie. If you have to choose between this and Wrong Turn 2...go with Wrong Turn 2. At least then you get Corn and Peanuts.
It has been a year since Jess and Nicole went missing at a rundown rest stop on California's Old Highway. Jess' brother Tom(Richard Tillman), a soldier back from Iraq and his girlfriend Marilyn(Jessie Ward)and an idiot pal Jared(Graham Norris)go searching for the missing lovers. They just so happen find the same rest stop. Same mysterious pickup driver and Winnebago carrying a family of living corpses.I can't say this doesn't meet expectations. We get some answers from the first trip and it looks like there is a strange reason to make a third road trip. Violence is gruesome, maybe even more than the first horrific events. Its hard to really care for the characters in peril. The cast includes: Brionne Davis, Julie Mond, Joey Mendicino and Diane Louise Salinger.
I enjoyed the first Rest Stop movie- considering it was a straight to video, low budget horror, I felt it was a tense off-the-beaten track film, with some nice, and unexpected, supernatural elements. Though I'm not claiming it's a horror classic, it was a fun film, and certainly felt like one of the fresher films in this sub-genre of horror, especially when compared to the tired Texas Chainsaw prequel and Hills Have Eyes sequel- both of which were out around the same time.I think the sequel is equally fun- if not more so. Anyone witnessing the porta-potty scene will know there's a real streak of humour in this film. The supernatural aspects are also capitalised upon- allowing for a good twist or two. The sequel fleshes out some of the history of the freakish family, we find out what happened to the characters from the last film- all in all, it does what a good sequel is supposed to! So if you want a fun hour and a half, you could do far worse than watching this.It's silly fun, with some laughs, some gory parts and some tense moments, but then that's the point, I expect. It's a nice feeling when a straight-to-DVD film demonstrates a lot of what is missing in big budget cinematic horror films today- bring on Rest Stop 3!!!
