- Directed by: Alexander Ullom
- Written by: Alexander Ullom
- Stars: Phineas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noa Toth
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 29 Minutes
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k7jckaHeuA
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
Four friends on what’s supposed to be a short car trip end up trapped on what seems to be an endless highway. And we get to see how they handle the situation. With such a small cast and so little that could happen, and did happen, we were expecting boredom. But it was pretty fascinating and kept our interest. It’s more of a philosophical and psychological kind of movie and low key on the horror. We both liked it a lot!
Spoilery Synopsis
We open on an abandoned car on the side of the road. We then cut to the same car earlier, when James, Day, Fisher, and Tyler get in and talk about birds and rats and gorillas fighting.
They drive on into the night, now talking about picking pumpkins. Tyler never can find the turn off, and the GPS just keeps saying go straight. Tyler turns around, but the road just sorta stops. He insists this is where they came in, and the GPS mostly agrees with him.
Suddenly, a mob attacks the car, all screaming and storming everywhere. They scratch Fisher through the open window until Day backs over a few of them. They all get into the car and zoom away. Credits roll.
Unable to find a turn-off, they stop the car to tend to Fisher’s wounds– but only for a moment because there are people trying to get into the car here too.
They drive on for six more hours, but the gas gauge doesn’t change at all. There’s no phone signal, so they stop to check the engine. The sun’s coming up, so at least it’s not night anymore. They hear the crowd coming for them from the roadside again and take off once more. They’re six hours from the previous attack, so how are these people still there?
James hypothesizes that maybe they’re all dead and the car crashed. But that’s crazy, right? They continue driving all day until night falls, and they still haven’t found a turn-off. It’s been 24 hours, and none of them are either sleepy or hungry. Is it Purgatory? Hell?
Day admits she recently thought about killing herself. Nobody else has anything to hide. They time the people outside, and it’s about 90 seconds from stopping the car until they arrive. So the plan is to stop in the morning and Tyler will explore the woods for 90 seconds. He runs in, and the people are just laying there out of sight. There is a long patch of them trying different things and taking driving breaks. The crowd shows up no matter what. They manage to catch one of the people but all he does is scream. It continues for a long time. Fish starts to crack up.
Then they encounter another car. Pulled over empty with the keys gone. The odometer is over a million.
Tyler and James get out of the car, and the car backs away to see what will happen. Tyler’s been at this for days now, and he’s ready to quit. He wants to see what the “outside” people will do to him, basically suicide. Or at least being done with the car. The other three leave him in the woods, but we don’t see him die.
Way later, they’re still driving, and they pass another car on the side of the road. This one isn’t very interesting. They all wonder if they’ll eventually have said everything that can be said.
On one stop, there’s no mob. No one comes out of the woods. This is good, right? Fisher and Day aren’t as excited as James would like.
Eventually James accuses the other two of doing nothing and playing victim. They say he just can’t accept the new reality. They all fight, and James leaves them behind.
After well over a million miles of road, James is alone. It starts to rain, and James thinks it’s a punishment for leaving the others behind. No, it’s just rain. Eventually, he comes to many more parked cars and a sign that says “Road Ends.”
He turns around and goes back to the last person he saw laying on the road and puts him in the passenger seat. Time to keep on driving! With new company.
Brian’s Commentary
It’s basically four people in a car talking with frequent breaks for screaming mobs of mindless people. It’s more like an episode of Twilight Zone than a horror movie, but it kept my interest through the whole run time, even with very little action.
I like that it’s never explained and doesn’t really end. I thought it was pretty awful as it started, but it grew on me as it progressed. I liked it!
Kevin’s Commentary
With such a small cast in a limited setting, I was expecting it to get tedious and boring, but it held my interest throughout. Eventually I started thinking of “Groundhog Day,” but it was continuous, and they were much more limited.
We never really get a resolution or explanation, but I felt like that was okay. I really enjoyed this one, more than I was expecting to.
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