TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

stormruston Appalling, Awful, lame, Things like that come to mind after sitting through this steaming turd, it took 2 days Just to watch this. David DeCoteau is a name I am going to avoid, I just watched his "leaches" days before and it is just as bad. Pretty faces with no acting ability at all.Everything about this movie except the story concept is bad, Lousy action acting and sets. The special effects must have been a kindergartens class project, great for 5 year olds embarrassing for a "real movie production".Its rare i can find so few redeeming or watchable bits in a movie as I love "B" movies, but I really have to say avoid this one and "Leaches" too

waynerd stadler If you enjoy watching a handful of rejected male underwear models who can't act walk around pretending they have the slightest clue about cars then this is a movie for you.Being a huge muscle car fan, coming from a hot rod background and also being a huge movie fan I have to say this is the worst "car" (and I use that term loosely) movie I've ever seen. I can't possible write a spoiler here as there was no plot to spoil, the screenplay is awful. Find me one muscle car mechanic that would rub ANYTHING (let alone blood) on the bare chest of another mechanic while prancing around in their ginch and I'll recommend them this waste of 75 minutes.This movie was classified as a "high octane thriller" on my movie channels visual guide. My grandmother could have done better stunt driving in the one scene that actually had some action. The rest of the movie consisted of horrible acting by bare chested college boys, excruciatingly lame dialog and 3 minutes scenes of these morons walking in slow motion to some substandard death metal.The story reeks, the acting is painful to watch and the directing was downright embarrassing. Watch how many times the "evil" chick has to watch where she's walking in the "oh so suspenseful" girlie stalking scene, ridiculous! Thank good I didn't pay anything for this waste of time.

ThrownMuse A college kid returns to his FastCar hometown to find that his chums have turned to the supernatural to make their wheels go faster. This movie could be seen as a parody of testosterone-fueled jokes like "The Fast and the Furious," but it is played so damn straight-forward that it is impossible to take that way. DeCoteau's genre gender play is amusing and appreciated--for the first 20 minutes, all the male characters are topless, just chillin' at the garage with their buddies, and the two female characters are fully clothed. However, his fascination with buffed 'n waxed torsos is more than a little boring. I don't understand why he just doesn't go all out and make his films gay with lots of nudity instead of making these straight-forward movies where straight male characters in their scanties rub blood all over each other. Make a real homo-horror, dammit! Nobody wants to watch this crap.

Hunter1114 When I saw the movie 'Shock Waves' (1977), I thought I had, without a doubt, seen the worst movie ever made. I must now apologize to director Ken Wiederhorn for having thought so. Director David DeCoteau's 'Speed Demon' (2003) is worse. DeCoteau can do good work but this isn't an example of it.(Potential Spoilers Ahead)Let's start with the setting. Wherever this town is that these kids live, there is almost nobody else living there but them. The film was very shy on, almost devoid of, extras to give the feel of an actual living, breathing community with some depth to it. Perhaps this is because the director moved from his familiar campus settings, with a heavy student population to draw from for extras, out into a wider world where extras cost more money. I can understand wanting to keep costs down, but the lack of a believable population gives the movie an odd feel to it.This town also, apparently, has some odd ordinances that require men under the age of, say, 25 to all wear sunglasses but mostly prohibit the wearing of shirts, except to funerals and other public functions. It's a shame that the story was not as well built as the bodies.Good horror depends on proper setup in order to make the viewer suspend disbelief and buy into the world that the director is creating. A brief mention of a 'Speed Demon' near the beginning of the film does not suffice. Flashbacks, or some other device, could have been employed at the beginning to set the stage and give more depth to the premise. When the lead actor talks about the speed demon before a fateful race, it rings hollow, more like high school gossip than urban legend.The fateful race was entirely predictable and came too early in the film to allow the viewer to develop any empathy for the unlucky character or his brother. It had none of the tension of, say, any of the race sequences from 'Rebel without a Cause' or even 'The Fast and the Furious' and 'The Wraith', which were the most likely inspirations for this film.The characters were shallow and did not elicit the empathy, sympathy or strong dislike that good characters have to do if the movie is going to work well. This was due in no small part to the fact that, generally, the acting was poor and distracted from what story there was. As an example, the lead villain delivered his lines in a consistently stiff, emotionless manner that was guaranteed to cure insomnia. To anyone who has seen other DeCoteau movies, the villain's wooden delivery would remind one of Bradley Stryker (The Brotherhood, et al), except that Stryker's tone of voice occasionally varied. However hokey the supernatural premise, almost any occult ritual scene can be made to work on some level if the lead actor has enough charisma to pull it off; think Michael Des Barres in 'Ghoulies' (1985). Des Barres performance was definitely over the top but it definitely didn't put the viewer to sleep, either. The lead villain in Speed Demon's occult ritual sequences leant no charisma whatsoever to the scenes and they came across as tedious frat initiations. This was not helped by DeCoteau's now-familiar, and tired, device of massage, to say nothing of underwear, either by doing it to one's self or with the help of a friend.Forgive me for picking on the lead villain...there's plenty of banality to go around for the whole cast.And the twist ending? Please. Not believable. The dark driver should've just driven off into the west, leaving them wondering about 'his' real identity similar to Eastwood's Preacher in 'Pale Rider'.Let this be a warning to young, aspiring directors: Well developed pecs and abs are no substitute for a well developed story. To you young actors out there: There's absolutely nothing wrong with developing one's body, but pay attention in drama class; don't just sign up for it and then head for the gym. Develop and work at your craft or you may someday find yourself living back home with your parents while trying to scrounge money for head shots and wondering why your agent doesn't return your calls.