Two teens, a brother and sister are driving home from college, ragging on each other, playing stupid brother-sister name calling and cut-down games. All of a sudden some maniac in a bad ass, satan's ice cream truck, or a satambulance hoopdee rear-ends them, effectively scaring the shit out of them and playing a quick game of highway cat and mouse.

Whew, what was that guy's problem? Road rage is such a big problem in this day and age, "must be inbreeding." Cut to brother and sister peeing in the bushes (not together you sicko's) and we get to see sis's skimpy black undies as she stands up, wheeeew pee-pee shivers.....

Back in the car driving down the road the couple see the devil's ice cream truck parked at a run down church, and the driver is dumping what appears to be bodies wrapped in sheets down a big pipe in the yard. Bad man sees them seeing him dumping whatever it may be down the pipe and gives chase (again!) doing the old highway cat and mouse. They lose him, and then brother brilliantly decides it is their moral obligation to go see if what bad guy was dumping down the pipe were in fact bodies, and are any of them still alive. This my friends gives sister the opportunity to say one of the best horror movie lines ever:

"You know the part in horror movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates him for it? This is it."

Altogether not a horrible horror flick, especially when you take into consideration that this was released at the time when the Scream trilogy had ended its run and sparked a frenzy of crappy hollywood Dawson's Creek style horror movies (hell, they even did a scary Dawson's episode if memory serves). Anyway I liked this movie much more than the "Holler when you find out what I did to Carrie on the Halloween after Friday the 13th." Crap that was so prevalent at the time.

Now don't send me messages and mails asking how I could have loved this shit movie, I didn't (besides hate mail is to be directed at jareprime) I'm just saying that at the time this movie was an island in an ocean of diarrhea. Am I proud to admit that I own it, as well as it's sequel, no. Did I thoroughly enjoy watching it again for the sake of reviewing it here? No. Get the gist? Good let's move on.

You know how to tell when the writers have completely expended their creativity glands? They put a psychic in the movie, that tells the story about where the creature came from, and why it's doing the things it does. Note to Hollywood, sometimes it's scarier when no one has an explanation as to WHAT the killer is, and it's even scarier when the killer has no motive.

Well there, I'm done venting, not a horrible movie, but it's not that great. I bought it in 2001 when it came out and just watched it for the second time tonight. Worth a rent, maybe.

5 out of 10 botched, leather sutured, liverectomies

When I first heard about this movie I was really excited. It looked like it would have actually been a scary horror movie, and possibly would have resurrected the genre from the nonsense that had come out in recent years. Fortunately, I didn't get a chance to see it until it came out on video.

As I was watching the movie, I didn't know what to expect. The atmosphere of the beginning of the movie is perfect and, truth be told, the first half hour of this movie is probably among the scariest in all horror movies. Again, the atmosphere is absolutely perfect.

The Creeper, when we see him at the church, looks almost ogre-ish. then he chases the kids, they investigate the church , blah, blah, blah. All of this made that first half hour flow with an amazing intensity.

If only Victor Salve had built off of that first 30 minutes. After the kids leave the church, it goes straight downhill from there. When Darry gets the call from the psychic when he's at the diner, there's no saving the movie at that point.

I also think the movie would have been scarier if the alternate ending was used.