shark-43 Wow - this film is fun. Inept in every way - our group just LAUGHED at everything. The acting is horrid - the filmmaking is terrible, there are some decent stunts but the script sounds like it was written by drunk 7th graders trying to write a slasher film. The film wastes no time. A little boy kills his slutty mom and her lover with a giant fake knife. And then of course he's put in the nuthouse, where I guess he had a personal trainer and access to a 24 hour gym and a personal hair stylist. And this escaped maniac justa starts killin'. And one bimbo gets away and he must have her - he must kill her. And of course she is cast in a sci-fi film (where the auditions are held in a school auditorium). And the maniac follows her to the desert where they are making the film and starts picking off people one by one. (too bad he didn't strangle the real director of the film). The scene where he kills a rattlesnake and then "eats" it is hysterical. The quickly made prop looks like a Snake Sub - he is so clearly eating bread that has been covered in green food coloring. Actually Rural Dirt Road Maniac is more accurate.

EyeAskance We launch our story with a camera-eye recollection, wherein a little boy quietly witnesses a sloppy kitchen-table hump starring his slatternly mother and some random strong-arm she likely picked up on her nightly stroll of the docks. He overreacts slightly to this, and proceeds to slay them both.Flash to present day...our now-adult(and physically very imposing) killer has spent the passing years in a maladministered sanitarium, and is deemed such a 24-karate psychopath that he is feared by the staff and kept in constant seclusion. Following his predictable escape, he stalks a pretty B-movie starlet on the set of an in-production sci-fi epic, leaving a bloody trail of victims in his wake. Will the imperiled girl be saved by her repentant two-timing husband? Probably.This really isn't a movie so much as it is a noxious deposit of aesthetic waste by-products disembogued by untalented and delusional film-industry parvenus. With that being said, FREEWAY MANIAC is also a priceless paragon of unpremeditated hilarity, one of the cheapest and most inexpedient integrants to the 80s slasher canon. It has a sizable body-count, with several of the murder scenarios curiously inferring a veneration of the killer and a latent applause for his pernicious crusade. Somehow, this antagonist pep-rallying comes off more silly than sick, suggesting a flippant tongue-in-cheek to the entire project.Individuals of a schlock-mongering countenance will probably squeal with flurried excitation upon viewing this...no-nonsense types, on the other hand, may assent to earning their Hari-Kari wings before the closing credits roll.5/10

Scarecrow-88 Psychotic Arthur Miller(James Courtney), who butchered his mother and her lover, escapes an insane asylum(yawn)and becomes the titular character after executing the institutions' many staff members. Beautiful model, Linda(Loren Winters) returns from a trip to find her boyfriend, Mannie(Frank Jasper) screwing around, infuriatingly taking to the road for a spin, getting lost in the country, her car breaking down. Coming in contact with the maniac at an auto shop, Linda narrowly escapes certain death, responsible for his recapture when she hits him with her car, sending him plunging forward. While being transported to a maximum security facility in San Diego, Arthur gets free yet again, this time setting his sights on Linda for revenge. Meanwhile, outside of LA, Linda is participating in a terrible, cheap sci-fi movie called ASSTRONAUTS, which the killer will obviously interrupt. Linda doesn't know that Arthur is on the loose because the director, writer, and her agent conceal this information from her. Arthur pretty much kills everything in sight, those he comes in contact with in the desert while trying to find Linda. Bottom of the barrel slasher flick has thrill-less off-screen kills by way of chainsaw, hammer, and punches among other means for Arthur to dispose of his many victims. Arthur even pounds rattler with a stone, devouring the snake meat! Probably the best scenes are vehicular deaths as one victim is run over by a truck, another by motorcycle. Dull and pointless, I can't see why anyone other than fans of rancid cinema would want to waste quality time on this turkey. Acting and dialogue are good for some laughs. The ending as Arthur finally has Linda in his clutches is as clumsily staged as they come.

Matt This movie is bad, but it is aware of how bad it is. At first, it is just hilarious such as when the killer, as a child, stabs his mom's lover in the back with an obviously plastic knife and he clutches his stomach as he falls over dead.Later, it gets a bit more interesting. The killer gets obsessed with this girl and follows her. He gets imprisoned, she lands a role in a movie after she becomes well known due to her victim status. The killer breaks out and follows her to the film set where the producer wants to make a horror/porn film and the director doesn't. This shows the director's awareness of what goes on in the slasher genre and allows some interesting commentary, but it also shows that Freeway Maniac is self aware and intentionally bad. That badness makes this possibly the funniest movie I have ever seen.