The Toll (I) (2020)
4/10
Bad movie, rad haunted hayride
23 March 2021
Are you planning a haunted hayride? Looking for costume ideas, jump scares, even a whole theme for a Halloween haunted experience? This is the movie for you!

Are you looking for a horror movie? A supernatural thriller? You can do better.

The premise has some promise. A driver and a woman take a long trip out to the middle of nowhere when things start to go wrong. She's paranoid that he's a psychopath when things take a turn for the worse. Sadly, the lore surrounding the story is just ridiculous. There are attempts at clever writing, character development and a story arc but nothing really succeeds. At best, it's a good try and deserves credit for not overextending itself with terrible CGI, a long run time or overly serious dialogue (except in one scene which is particularly awful).

It reminded me a lot of an equally bad or possibly worse film called "Dead End." So I can't be too negative about it when it was made during a pandemic, probably on an iPhone and with no established actors and it's still as good as if not better than a similar movie which faced none of the same limitations.

You can do a lot better, but hey, the filmmakers could have done a lot worse.
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