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Summary: Eerie, weird little desert ghost/revenge tale
Review: Well, here's another "Lion's Gate Special", meaning a fairly decent low-budget horror flick that was released with no fanfare and the DVD has next to no extras. I only watched it as it was on TV one Saturday afternoon - liked it so much I had to buy it.
When WILL Lion's Gate get it together?
That being said, "Route 666" stars Lou Diamond Philips, Lori Petty, Steven Williams ("Mr. X" on "The X-Files") and Dale Midkiff ("Pet Sematary"). It's a weird little chiller about a group of Federal Marshals (led by Philips) hauling a reluctant member of the Witness Protection Program (Williams) to testify in LA against his mobster bosses (who are, of course, after his ass as well). Everyone ends up on Route 66 but, due to a series of circumstances, have to take the long-closed Route 666 (there really WAS a Route 666 once) as it's a short-cut to LA and to avoid the hitmen. BUT, there's something "strange" about the lonely desert road which leads to a series of bizarre deaths, vengeance for some eerie zombie-like characters lurking on (or is it under?) the road, a traitorous sheriff and Steven Williams who has some of the BEST, most hilarious lines for a horror movie.
"Route 666" isn't the greatest horror movie in the world but, for a low-budget flick, I thought it was worth the purchase price. And it DID have some chilling moments for me and isn't that the bottom line with horror movies?
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Summary: yeah ... right!
Review: Why are there two prats giving this 5 out of 5. They are so obviously joke reviews. This is an awful movie and the zombie scenes are shut with a low shutter speed, so they end up looking like jerky pop-videos.-Mike
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Summary: Could have been good but lost it fast
Review: Yikes... what can I say.
I am a fan for any thing resembling Zombies.
That is why the premise of this movie sounded good... But YIKES... after a good beginning this thing went downhill fast !!
Choppy film work really detracted from the film.
Perhaps it was intended to add some sort of tension or uneasiness, but instead it was simply annoying. Editing !!!!
Where was the editing for this movie.
Even though they are supposedly stranded far from any help or civilazation, there are two scenes where you can see cars passing by in the nearby background.
For you bloopers seekers, the worst example of this is when the mystery phone booth rings. Watch the scene where they are all standing together staring at the phonebooth; you will see a white car in the very near distance drive by the screen behind them from left to right. A good hand tossed rock would hit the car! Not something that will be added to the collection, that is for sure.
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