His friend Kirk offers up his parents cottage for the weekend. So Justin, girlfriend Brooke, Kirk’s girlfriend Amanda and Amanda’s sister Danielle head out for a weekend of fun. As he’s getting in the car, Justin gets angry when he discovers Kirk has not picked up the beer yet. But Kirk says there’s a place on the way where beer is fifty percent cheaper.
As they drive, we discover they are the whiniest group of people. They complain about everything. They get lost trying to find the store with discount beer until driving down a long dirt road to what appears to be an abandoned town. Kirk assures them this is the place based on a spray painted sign near the disturbing fresh mystery carcass. The girls wander off while the guys go to get beer. Brooke sees a little girl near an old building, but no one else sees her.
Back in the car, the guys say the store owner warned them, “Go home now. You keep driving down the road and you’re all going to die.” They quickly forget about the creepy town, creepy warning and creepy little girl as they pull over to pee. They’re on a one lane dirt road and Amanda feels the need to dance in it while saying they’re the only one for miles. When a camper comes zooming by, she dives into the mud to keep from being hit. This camper is either very stealthy or Amanda has no peripheral vision.
The group is furious at the camper and in a case of road rage, they give chase so they can get the license number. But almost getting hit isn’t a crime so this is an exercise in futility. Also Amanda was standing in the one lane road so she bears some responsibility.
They’ve almost caught up to the camper when it stops dead in the road, which freaks them out. What is he doing? Why has he stopped? When he drives off, they are relieved until they see him coming back at them. Now he’s chasing them and they are afraid of what’s going to happen next. Surprisingly no one remembers the storekeepers warning that they’re all going to die.
This is a group of friends making terrible decisions. They lose the camper by making a sharp turn but it never occurs to them the camper could double back and find them. They think a camper cant go up hill, yet it repeatedly does. When one of them is hit, another suggest leaving her in the road until they can get help, never considering she could get run over again. When they put the injured party in the SUV, they have her head up against the door at a 90 degree angle to her body so if there’s a neck injury it’s so much worse now. They drive further into the woods to try to get higher up for cell reception, rather than turn around and go back to town. And this is another movie where people reveal serious issues while in the middle of a stressful situation when their lives are in danger. You’ve kept your secret this long, but don’t blurt it out in a crisis.
The craziest thing about this movie is IMDb says budget was 1.2 million?!? What did they spend it on??!
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| Justin being a douche |
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| Do you really want to go to the store down the dirt road that has a spray painted sign? |
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