Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back

Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back (2008) : Reviewed by BRYAN SCHUESSLER

Director Shawn Papazian takes over the reigns and directed this better than original sequel. I was not a big fan of John Shiban’s Rest Stop, with its B-Movie quality production values and acting, but things could have been far worse. It was better than a fair amount of films that had come out. I just wished it was gorier. This brings me to talk about the sequel, which was far gorier.

I went into the viewing of Rest Stop 2 with a little bit of apprehension, as I stated earlier. I was not very pleased with the acting, lack of gore, suspense, and plot development or lack of.  I was hoping that the sequel would be a better film. I think it was. I enjoyed the greater amount of gore in the sequel and they were not too heavy on filling the film up with tons of flashbacks, though the filmmakers did show a few. The film sort of takes off where the last one left off, this time starting off with the crazy inbred (I am making an assumption here!) family driving in their Winnebago and just being weird. I still get creeped-out over that damn ugly midget-troll! Now that is some true horror right there! Creepy!

The characters reminded me of those in a David Lynch movie. Truly bizarre. The twins that just sit there. The mom with her sexuality in over-drive and the bible-banging father who drives the Winnebago that has a few screws loose. A perfect “family”! The plot is sorta vague and confusing, but from what I gather this guy in a pick-up truck goes around killing anyone that goes down this one highway that happens to not be on the map. He had gotten killed by this freak of a family at one point and now just comes around killing those that are not righteous. I think. I am not sure, though.