Detour (Video 2003)

A group on their way to a rave become involved in a string of events that leaves them stranded in a desert. What follows is a nights of terror as they are set upon by a gang of drug crazed cannibals

Director:

Steve Taylor

Writers:

Steve Grabowsky, Steve Taylor

Stars:

Ashley Reed, Aaron Buer, Brent Taylor

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ashley Reed	...	Tara (as Ashley Elizabeth)
Aaron Buer	...	Loopz / Lawrence
Brent Taylor	...	Neil
Danna Brady	...	Harmony
Kelsey Wedeen	...	Cashie
Jessica Osfar	...	Michele
Ryan De'Rouen	...	Lee (as Ryan De Rouen)
T.C. Davidson	...	King Freak (as Curtis Davidson)
Micky Levy	...	Queen Freak
Anthony Connell	...	Petey
Tiffany Shepis	...	Tiffany
Renee Intlekofer	...	Angela (as Renee Madison Cole)
Steve Grabowsky	...	Pseudo Neil
George Wright	...	Lt. Freak
Casey Todd	...	Fisherman Freak

Storyline

While returning to Los Angeles in a trailer through the desert, the driver Neil convinces his friends Tara, Harmony, Loopz, Michelle, Lee and Cashie to take a detour to an isolated mine where it could have a plantation of peyote. The owner of a gas station advises the group to not go to the place, but the stubborn Neil does not pay attention to his words. While driving in a secondary road, Neil sees a girl and wrecks the car in a rock. He decides to walk back to the gas station to call a tow truck, while Michelle and Lee climb a hill trying to get signal to their cell phones. Sooner the teenagers find that they are under siege of a group of sadistic deformed cannibals and they have to fight to survive.

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Plot Keywords:

cannibal | gas station | detour | mine | death | 

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Taglines:

One Wrong Turn and your Fresh Meat!

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong horror violence/gore, language and sexuality

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 December 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Hell's Highway

Filming Locations:

Rosamond, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Obsidian Productions, Poushay Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This was actually completed in February 2002, but was not released until nearly two years later, in December 2003.

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Goofs

While looking out the front window of the camper, we see four killers slowly advancing, illuminated by the headlights. When they go outside there are now only three, the girl fires three shots and kills all three of them, with no mention of the fourth one, with two other killers appearing from different sides of the screen.

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Quotes

Loopz: Yo my man, check it. I needs to unleash my dragon. You got a B-EZ up in this mart?
Petey: You mean the crapper?
Loopz: Yeah, fo shure!
Petey: Crapper's out back. Help yourself.

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Crazy Credits

Thanks to Maggie the Bitch

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Connections

References The Real World (1992)

User Reviews

This one took a "detour" down the road of missed opportunities.

Normally I am forgiving of most low-budget "young folks in danger" types of low-grade horror films because they sometimes rise above expectations, the shot-on-video HIGHWAY TO HELL being a good example. But this one is a mess of missed opportunities. Same premise as HILLS HAVE EYES, but a group of teenager/early 20s rather than a family. That in itself is a missed opportunity (but not a big one) because we all know where horror films go when there's a gang of gregarious kids around. There's a stupid and unnecessary prologue where we see 2 girls get killed that pretty much gives away the whole story in 3 minutes. If these kids were any goofier, they'd be in a cartoon instead. There's no build of suspense, the frights are few, the cannibals look like friends and family of the film-makers with very little make-up or reason to be the way they are. And there's too many of them anyway. The cannibal hide-out is a cave and then it's an old building, then a cave again. There's no good sense of where anything is here. The leader of the cannibals, while plenty big enough, has the most ludicrous facial appearance and isn't at all scary, his mate is just a screaming mimi. With a decent effort on makeup and a bit of style and maturity this could have been pretty good, but save your time and watch HILLS HAVE EYES instead. Heck, even HILLS HAVE EYES 2 is grade A compared to this.