Rest Stop (2006)

I wanted to but couldn't!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Soo I watched it and I have to say I love it.There are some gross scenes such as *SPOILER ALERT*: Biting off fingers I didn't understand everything and that makes me even more curious about it. I re watched it like 10000 times and still don't understand a thing but it's okay, I'll figure it out, eventually. SPOILERS: Nicole dies!!! Jesse dies!!! Creepy driver and family live!!! Tracy and the policeman are ghosts!!! I think!!! Oh yeah, I read somewhere that they are making part 3!!! YAAY!!! Nicole is now a ghost apparently and will appear in part 2. I was really sorry for Nicole when she got killed. I mean she was so confident and she burns the car when the driver kills her. WTF?

"Jesse Hilts" (Joseph George Mendicino) and "Nicole Carrow" (Jaimie Alexander) are two young lovers who decide one day to take off for Hollywood where fortune and fame undoubtedly await. On the drive from Texas they stop off at a rest stop which is off of the beaten path and appears to be almost abandoned. Nicole then goes into the restroom but when she returns she finds that Jesse has disappeared. At first she thinks he is playing a game on her but when a man in a yellow pickup truck drives by and throws his cell phone at her she realizes that he has been abducted. She is now left at the rest stop all by herself with no way to get help and with a potential maniac on the loose. Now rather than reveal any more of this film and risk ruining it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that it had a pretty good premise to work from. Unfortunately, it failed to live up to its potential. The main reason for this is because it seemed to lose focus on several different occasions. In any case, those who enjoy splatter films without rhyme or reason might find this entertaining but quite frankly I found it to be somewhat disappointing and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.

Stopping at a seemingly-deserted rest stop while on their way to California, a woman finds the area stalked by a vicious killer intended to torment and torture her and anyone else that comes along to help, forcing her into an extreme battle to escape the building alive.This turned out to be a marginally-enjoyable slasher effort, which rather curiously seems to straddle several different lines and manages to make some work and some don't. The survival-horror and tormenting here are pretty good, as the ever-escalating series of confrontations with the killer, the singular-location setting being used to great effect and the gradual increase of gore all makes for some good times. Then, it seems to descend into parody with several scenes where instead of exploiting the brutal they represent in concept, the execution is utterly laughable and silly, completely clashing in tone and feel. There's also hints of the supernatural at work here, especially the subplot about the girl in the room, but it's not nearly all that bad and somewhat subtle anyway, and overall this one does seem to be enjoyable more often than not.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and drug use.

Rest Stop ( 2006) I don't why but for a few weeks, I got this mixed up with Drive Thru (2007.I sas few year ago,bat least Drive Thru was a lot fun to watch and really enjoyed). (Funny that both of these movie 4.4 IMDb site) both went to Straight to DVD.A young couple seem to go on a road trip, they almost get hit by another car, only for the boyfriend to angry shout abuse at the driver before it's drivers off. They come to the rest stop, where the girl goes to the nasty bathroom and come back out to see her boyfriends as gone, at first she thinks it's a Joke. I found the whole movie was a joke, cause felt so bored after all that happened and then movies just kept on going around and around and around in circles and those scenes were not that good at all. They were not scary, tense of anything , it was just flat from start to end, I could not wait for if to end. Just before the 45 minutes, I was trying really hard not to fall a sleep.I thought the movie could be better in the latter,.I was wrong there too as is stayed in that bleak flat zone and the acting was all over the place from the lead.I could not take her serious atall. (In her few scenes, she clam and the next crying and going over the top, some scenes felt like she was just read from the script at the moment.The whole movie was very predictable, nothing that not really done in otherbhorror/thrillers movies, shich have been done much better then this. There one scenes that I really liked, which I thought was really stranger and very odd in a good.That scenes was really point-less as it had nothing to with the main plot. 2/10 Avoid it!I won't be seeing the sequel anytime soon!