AniInterview
Sorry, this movie sucks
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Josephina
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
daisyfebbo
This was one of my favorite childhood "scary" movies, now I just use it to be safe when traveling because regardless the horror movie theme, events similar to this do occur all around the world. I absolutely love this movie, its thrilling!
Uriah43
"Jesse Hilts" (Joseph George Mendicino) and "Nicole Carrow" (Jaimie Alexander) are two young lovers who decide one day to take off for Hollywood where fortune and fame undoubtedly await. On the drive from Texas they stop off at a rest stop which is off of the beaten path and appears to be almost abandoned. Nicole then goes into the restroom but when she returns she finds that Jesse has disappeared. At first she thinks he is playing a game on her but when a man in a yellow pickup truck drives by and throws his cell phone at her she realizes that he has been abducted. She is now left at the rest stop all by herself with no way to get help and with a potential maniac on the loose. Now rather than reveal any more of this film and risk ruining it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that it had a pretty good premise to work from. Unfortunately, it failed to live up to its potential. The main reason for this is because it seemed to lose focus on several different occasions. In any case, those who enjoy splatter films without rhyme or reason might find this entertaining but quite frankly I found it to be somewhat disappointing and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.
atinder
Rest Stop ( 2006) I don't why but for a few weeks, I got this mixed up with Drive Thru (2007.I sas few year ago,bat least Drive Thru was a lot fun to watch and really enjoyed). (Funny that both of these movie 4.4 IMDb site) both went to Straight to DVD.A young couple seem to go on a road trip, they almost get hit by another car, only for the boyfriend to angry shout abuse at the driver before it's drivers off. They come to the rest stop, where the girl goes to the nasty bathroom and come back out to see her boyfriends as gone, at first she thinks it's a Joke. I found the whole movie was a joke, cause felt so bored after all that happened and then movies just kept on going around and around and around in circles and those scenes were not that good at all. They were not scary, tense of anything , it was just flat from start to end, I could not wait for if to end. Just before the 45 minutes, I was trying really hard not to fall a sleep.I thought the movie could be better in the latter,.I was wrong there too as is stayed in that bleak flat zone and the acting was all over the place from the lead.I could not take her serious atall. (In her few scenes, she clam and the next crying and going over the top, some scenes felt like she was just read from the script at the moment.The whole movie was very predictable, nothing that not really done in otherbhorror/thrillers movies, shich have been done much better then this. There one scenes that I really liked, which I thought was really stranger and very odd in a good.That scenes was really point-less as it had nothing to with the main plot. 2/10 Avoid it!I won't be seeing the sequel anytime soon!
Matt Kracht
The plot: A young woman runs away from home, only to be terrorized by a psychopath at a rest stop.Rest Stop could have been good, but the writer/director decided to throw in every single clichéd plot element that he could think of: psychopathic serial killer, creepy religious cult, deformed mutant, haunted house, ghosts, and kidnapped spouse. If it had just focused on a few of these things, instead of an incoherent pastiche of every horror movie cliché imaginable, this could have been an enjoyable, low budget movie.Rest Stop also suffers from boring filler, pointlessly long scenes, and an understated, subtle story that's too confusing for many viewers to follow. It's a movie that may require multiple viewings to understand, but few people will actually like the movie enough to actually sit through it again, just to decipher the hidden clues. As a 20-30 minute short film, this would have been enjoyable and short enough to go back and watch again. As a full-length feature, however, it's too slow-paced and boring to sit through again.I would recommend Rest Stop mainly to fans of independent horror and psychological horror. It's not a particularly good example of psychological horror, but it does manage to hit most of the clichés by the time the credits roll. Stick around for a brief scene that may give you a few more hints as to what's going on. If you've been paying attention, it will probably explain the most confusing aspects of the movie.
