Film: Haunted Highway
Stars: Rand Gamble, Hinano Yoshikawa, Laura Putney
Rating: 1/10
Imagine the worst horror movie you’ve ever seen. Now imagine it again with some of the worst acting ever seen, an extremely weak plot, a low budget, horrible effects, and a bucket load of cheese, and you get Haunted Highway. Directed by Junichi Suzuki, it is a true disappointment for all horror fans. It began with a promising enough storyline; A young man (Rand Gamble) who is having an affair with a Japanese model (Hinano Yoshikawa) is discovered by his wife (Laura Putney) , with a heated argument ensuing. He kills her in a frenzy, and when he realizes what he has done, dumps the body in the trunk of his car and heads down the road to the lake where they were married to dump it. As the night closes in on him, so do ‘horrifying’ apparitions and visions, which torment and haunt him the whole way, causing reality to be questioned. While this may sound good on paper, it translates like a train wreck onto film. To begin with, there was not one ounce of good acting in the entire film. Stiff, wooden, and overacted seemed to be the standard if you wanted a role in this film. It almost seemed like the actors were all playing a joke at times, feeling like a SCARY MOVIE mockery. And then there’s the plot; it quickly turns into a predictable, boring, and uneventful show. One scene blurs into another, and not one moment seems to stand out. Finally, the effects were very poor, and it was quite apparent that it was a low budget film. They were done cheesily and tried too hard to look like their big budget counterparts, giving the whole film a cheap, amateur feel. The only good thing I have to say about Haunted Highway is that if you are looking for a good laugh with friends, this is defiantly one you should pick up.
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