Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14978 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE
• Released on: 2008-10-07
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 91 minutes

Album Description
When four friends embark on a road trip to Vegas looking for fun and a few cheap thrills, they have no idea that they're about to fall into a blood-drenched charnel house of tension, torture, and the darkest depths of pure primal fear! After their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they must find a way back to civilization. But their plan soon arouses the malice of Rusty Nail-a murderous, vengeful trucker with an insatiable appetite for gruesome mutilation and sadistic pain - and he'll stop at nothing to ensure they pay their toll...one body part at a time!

Customer Reviews

Not as good as the first but still decent
Joy Ride 2 lacks the tension and fright found in the first movie but it still manages to entertain unlike so many horror movies that go direct to DVD.

Rusty Nails, the trucker who happens to be a serial killer, continues with the carnage when he discovers that two couples broke into his home and stole his vintage sports car, after their car broke down. Rusty doesn't take too kindly to folks stealing his property. He quickly teaches them a lesson in manners that they'll soon take to their graves.

In this movie, you get to see some profile shots of Rusty's face. Surprisingly, he isn't the fat trucker I thought he was. He has more of a Triple-H, a la wrestler, build and facial appearance. At least that's what I saw, but you may think otherwise.

I thought the killings and torture scenes were effective but not original. After all, there's only so many ways you can maim or murder somebody and in horror, it's pretty much been done.

It's a good sequel that tries to remain faithful to the Rusty mystique and pulls it off for the most part. In the end, I enjoyed it and I think you will, too.

The reason I liked this movie
I'm giving this movie 4 stars. The torture scenes were well done. I liked the idea of the victims deciding each others fate. While not all kills were original, it kept in line with Rusty's menacing acts. Which was a good thing to see remain from the original.

The plot is decent enough to make you wonder, and in usual fashion you have the people you want to see survive, and then end up toast. How does it all work out? Watch and find out. I was pleasantly pleased with this one because Rusty is actually in pretty good shape for a trucker, but not so over the top that it is unrealistic.

Also Rusty toys with his victims. It wasn't that he was making them promises he was just toying with them before "the final nail" was placed. I won't spoil anything like some of the other reviewers do because I let other people judge for themselves when it comes to sequels. Especially direct to DVD ones.

It's worth a look. Especially for the end and keeping with tradition. In the original you never get a look at Rusty. The movie leads you on to believe that you do, but at the end it completely fools you.

HANGING BY A RUSTY NAIL
The thrills and adrenaline-pumping excitement in the original Joy Ride begins when two brothers play a cruel prank on a seemingly love-lorn trucker named Rusty Nail. The rest of the movie is a roller coaster ride with a slam bang finale and a twisty ending.

The new movie Joy Ride 2 centers on two couples heading for Las Vegas. One of the guys suggest they use a back road because it's shorter(damn the old "let's use the back road" cliche) Naturally their car breaks down and they start walking and remember- they are on a deserted back road. They eventually come across a seemingly deserted house and shed. They break into the house find nothing useful then inspect the shed where they find a wall loaded with nasty looking implements and do find a lovingly restored sports car which they reason they will "borrow" until they find a rental in the next town and return the sports car. One of the girls leaves contact information for the owners if they return(stupid, stupid girl) Of course this is a horror movie and the owner turns out to be--yes you guessed right--it's Rusty Nail.

The balance of the movie is sadism, mutilation and some rather gruesome death scenes. One poor soul has his entire jawbone ripped from his face(not shown) but you do get to see the jawbone -teeth and all. The metal rod through the top of the head through the chin is gross(but i saw a similar scene in a 1980's horror flick-The Prowler) The movie has a lot of tense moments but unlike the first movie the tense scenes are sadistic and bloody while the first movie the thrills and tense moments were more from chase scenes with the maniacal Rusty and his truck. The movie is worth a watch but it will make you squirm.

One piece of advice...Never give Rusty Nail the finger unless you are not fond of five digits on each hand.