Detour – Hell’s Highway
Lesbo 1 and Lesbo 2 are driving across the desert on their way to some sort of "killer" rave when from out of nowhere a huge gloppy bloody mass splatters their windshield and causes them to mildly "crash" into a tumbleweed. In a feeble attempt to assess the problem, Lesbo 1 exits the car only to notice some sort of a Hellboy lookalike with a dual-hooked contraption strapped to his hand come stumbling along. Lesbo 1 thinks she can intimidate him into leaving them alone by wielding her Club Steering Wheel Lock but instead she is swiftly gashed open repeatedly by Hellboy wannabe's pointy hooks. In her last dying breath she tells her lover to "run" rather than "drive" so Lesbo 2 opts to run rather than drive and you don't have to have much imagination to figure out what happens next.
So beings "Detour" (aka "Cannibal Detour: Hell's Highway" by director Steve Taylor who apparently also directed a gem by the name of "Sludge" which I am sad to say I am somewhat salivating to see. Please don't tell my husband. He might divorce me.)
We then find a group of seven 20-somethings (all more or less no-name actors except for maybe B-queen Tiffany Shepis) driving cross country in a motor home when they decide to take a detour in the desert to score some killer peyote rumored to be in an isolated mine near an old military fort. They stop at a gas station to fuel up and although the owner of the station strongly urges them not to go, Neil, Tara, Harmony, Loopz, Michelle, Lee and Cashie have their own ideas about what a good time is and drive on anyway. In a matter of minutes (about 6 miles or so) they crash into a tree stump while trying to avoid hitting a little girl standing in the middle of their desert oasis. It's all downhill from here as one by one the kids are picked off and picked apart by a group of crazed, doped up sadistic cannibals.
"This place kinda grows on you..... like leprosy."
Fans of Wrong Turn and The Hills Have Eyes will enjoy the brutality of this one, even though you don't actually see faces ripped off or ingested. There is a rather non-titillating sex scene offering minor boobage but its fitting for the flick, and there are some pretty disgusting usages of feces, as well as a sufficient level of gore. Saw fans may not be entertained, but we all know I am not a huge Saw fan, so it makes sense I would like this one. And with the exception of Vanilla Ice rapper wannabe Loopz, the characters seem believable enough, even though they are somewhat challenged in the competent acting department.
I say YES to Detour with 2 hooks up. After all, if I can't have zombies, at least I have flesh eaters, and that is always a plus in my book.
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