💀👻🎃 61 Days of Horror 🎃👻💀
One of those films where you like the pieces more than the pie.
"Road horror" is a fun sub-genre, and this seems like it had a pretty sizeable impact on the similar-but-better The Hitcher (1986).
Stacy Keach is probably the best part of the film, his charm and presence somewhat making up for the just-OK script and meandering, semi-dull plot.
I say "somewhat" because ultimately this is just too empty throughout, without enough actual…
When LL Cool J's performance is the strongest part of your film, there's a problem.
And he is actually good here, despite more or less emulating Robert De Niro's Al Capone in The Untouchables (1987), right down to the spurts of near-cartoonishly over-the-top violence between his fronted faux-businessman persona.
But the script is too stupid and empty to let him get anywhere with the character. And those moments of violence are so insanely much (tongues chopped off, pool stick raping,…
