John Crane Coincidently I just came back from a road trip when rented this lovely piece of art. I knew right away it would be a horrible film. In fact, I knew I should have watched it or rent it a second time just to watch it. I did and I wasted 1 hour and 10 minutes of my life with this one. It's about a sexy female hitchhiker who is a homicidal maniac and kills anybody who picks her up *cough The Hitchhiker* but when a group of teens decide to take revenge and murder her, she keeps popping up behind every other bend. I will say this, it seems like somebody had already tried this clever idea and worked. Um, I think his name was Rodger Andrieux. This rendition is a lot gorier and sadistic, practically S&M.With that I will rant about its fatalities. The acting is atrocious. I can't stress that enough. I thought that I was watching a horrible ABC Family movie that had a psychotic twist. However, with these sorts of b-movies and indie movies you can't expect outstanding and award winning acting, which I can forgive this time. But the looks of said homicidal vixen kind of distracts from the poor acting, but its still, nevertheless, there and annoying.The set, being a highway and its shoulders, are obviously low-budget but I will give them the benefit of the doubt, they did conserve a lot of money that way. The cinematography was horrendous. I think it was more of a satire of driving movies and travel films that it was trying to be creative, and that in its own sense is creative. But nonetheless, still was pretty sucky.These were very crucial elements to the plot and wellbeing of the movie and I think that not having those key elements kind of spell death to the whole film, no pun intended. However the excessive gore (i.e. dragging intestines on the road) made up for a little less than half of the damage. The gore was cheesy but its not the design than it is more of the principle. The gore was there as well as the action that caused it. I liked it. But what is excessive, unnecessary gore with out the sadism and masochism? Well this female has it all doesn't she? I think that these ingredients saved the film for some audience but not for me. To a point it was ridiculous.I was completely sideswiped by this road thriller and in turn I thought it was a little less than okay. The acting was horrible, as well as the cinematography was terrible as well as the overall picture of the movie but the sex, gore and masochism saved it for some audiences. The ending was sort of a shocker, which I will give it that. Overall, I would recommend this movie to cult horror movie fans but not professional horror fans. It was sort of a waste of time and didn't meet its standards.

dorianagray I bought this movie at a used movie store (luckily it was cheap), thinking it would be another good road terror movie, like The Hitcher. Hell's Highway was pathetic. It looks like it was filmed with a home video camera, the special effects were painfully fake, and the plot was very boring. The picture quality is incredibly bad. The acting was lame, and it seemed like all the cast knew how to do was smoke pot, like they were doing for most of the movie. It reminded me of something a bunch of high school kids threw together. Don't waste your time. Watch a good "road horror" movie like The Hitcher or Joy Ride instead. Quicksilver Highway is much better.

gothfuqqinzilla another bad movie, from another bad movie company...but, this is not a bad thing, i love bad movies. this one though, i would love to see on mst3k...with joel, he's funnier than mike, but, anyway. good amusement, enough blood to keep one entertained for awhile. and, surprisingly, had an ending i did not expect.

ditship This movie started out OK. When the preacher takes a shovel to the head causing a HUGE explosion of blood I thought: "Hey, that looked incredibly bad, this might be fun to watch!" Oh, how I was wrong.. so very, very wrong. From horrible acting to special affects that were done by 5th graders with a 10 dollar budget (they got a pizza) this movie was a nightmare. Just wait till you get to the scene consisting of matchbox cars crashing into a plastic gas station. What the hell was that anyway? Bad news folks. Bad news.