Product Description

Its christmas eve & like every year the harringtons take a trip to their in-laws to celebrate the holidays. Taking an unfamiliar shortcut mr harrington makes the biggest mistake of his life leading his family down a terror fillied road with no end. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/06/2007 Starring: Ray Wise Lin Shaye Run time: 84 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20994 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2004-11-09
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 84 minutes

Customer Reviews

Cliche-ish? Yes. Enjoyable? Definitely.
It's pretty obvious that someone had a lot of fun making this film. There's a hint of dark comedy, the "Twilight Zone" feel that pervades almost all the reviews here at Amazon.com, and a cliché-riddled film that actually works if you set back and enjoy. Apparently given a pretty limited budget, first time co-directors Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa have pulled together a horror film that pays homage to a mixture of films in the vein of the Twilight Zone meets Rosemary's Baby. You might also blend in a little "CHRISTINE" (ala Stephen King) and then you'll have the general idea.

The film stars Ray Wise (SAVANNAH) as Frank Harrington. He's driving his family (wife, two kids - one a punk teenage boy and the other a young adult psychiatrist - and a boyfriend of their daughter's) to a Christmas gathering at his mother-in-law's house. Along the way, though, Frank decides to take a detour, a shortcut, down an old country road, and he does this while everyone else in the car is asleep. And when they awaken, the road seems to go on forever and ever and ever. Hmm. Strange, too, that all of their watches have stopped at 7:30pm.

Soon they discover a pretty young lady dressed all in white standing alongside this endless road, and she's cradling a well-swathed baby in her arms. And when they stop to see if she needs help, all hell breaks loose. Their daughter's boyfriend vanishes, and soon a hearse comes slowly trundling by and, as it passes, everyone sees the boyfriend pounding his bloody hands on the rear window. The family jumps back into their car and races after the hearse, only to hit a big speed bump a few miles down the road. Or was that a speed bump? Uh-oh. It was the boyfriend, and he's nearly mangled beyond recognition.

Soon the car's occupants/family begin to disappear, almost always after spotting the lady in white. Why doesn't the road ever end? Why are they all being forced into this hearse? Why is this lady in white attached to them somehow? Why does time seemed to have stopped?

Like I said earlier, lot's of cliché-style answer await you, but that doesn't detract from the enjoyment of watching this dark, dark, mildly comedic horror tale. Popcorn? Check. Lights off? Check. Loved one sitting nearby ready to scream? Check. You're ready!

Real Christmas horror flick
This movie is a Christmas eve horror flick. If you would like to be scared by a movie that holds your interests, then this is the one. Why this movie is so scarey to me is that I have been lost when driving late at night. So, what the movie does is captures your fear of being lost with no one around to ask directions from. Great movie for a very low budget!!! Highly recommended!!!!

A fine little low budget gem
I'm not going to bother with a synopsis for a couple of reasons. 1) It's been summarized plenty in other reviews. 2) Going into this movie with expectations or outside information may actually hurt your chances of enjoying it.

That said, I feel it's important to convey just what kind of movie this is. It has *some* gore, but not overmuch, so gorehounds should steer clear. It's not that kind of film.

The movie isn't a dense foreign film, but it IS more about character and mood than action, so people looking for something that moves along at a fever pitch should also save their time.

I'd recommend it to anyone looking for something along the lines of the classic Twilight Zone episodes but with a more modern sense of dark humor and a bit of family drama thrown in for good measure. I suppose it's best compared to Frailty or The Blair Witch Project.