Rest Stop (film)
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| Directed by | John Shiban |
| Produced by | R. J. Louis |
| Written by | John Shiban |
| Starring | Jaimie Alexander, Joey Mendincino, Nick Orefice, Deanna Russo, Joseph Lawrence |
| Music by | Bear McCreary |
| Cinematography | Mark Vargo |
| Editing by | Richard Byard |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
| Release date(s) | 2006 |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Rest Stop is a 2006 horror film released direct-to-video on October 17, 2006. It is distributed by Warner Home Video. It has been rated R by the MPAA. The film features Joey Lawrence of Gimme a Break and Blossom fame.
The film is about a girl who is terrorized by a deranged serial killer while on a cross country road trip to California.
[edit] Cast
- Deanna Russo....Tracy Kess
- Jaimie Alexander....Nicole Carrow
- Joey Lawrence....Officer Michael Deacon
- Joey Mendincino....Jess Hilts
- Mikey Post....Scotty
- Curtis Taylor....The Ranger
[edit] Plot Summary
The movie begins with Nicole (Jaimie Alexander) being picked up by her boyfriend Jess (Joey Mendicino). After driving off in Jess' convertible the two receive a phone call from the individuals residing at their planned living location, informing them that circumstances have come up and that they should find alternate accommodations.
After a brief (and graphic) love scene on the side of the road, the couple continue along "The Old Highway," to their destined location of California.
Nicole complains she needs to relieve herself, and urges Jess to find a rest stop. Luckily, the services she desires are nearby.
Nicole enters the women's restroom, to find terribly messy and dirty conditions and does what she needs to do. She then exits the building to find her boyfriend, gone.
After calling his name out many times, she is convinced he is gone. Her thoughts are reinforced when the deranged truck driver with licence plate KZL-303 throws her the red cell phone that was in the convertible.
She then proceeds back to the restroom, with nothing better to do. Nicole hears a girl with blood and cuts all over whimpering in the maintenance room. She cautions Nicole about the estranged killer that tortured her.
Nicole goes to look for help and notices a RV, bangs on the door and asks for help. She has a short eerie ride with the passengers until she is eventually thrown out for looking at the deformed individual hidden behind curtains at the back of the vehicle.
The man in the yellow truck continues to elude Nicole, until a cop arrives via motorcycle. At this point she feels saved, happy to have help arrived. Her happiness is temporary however, as the cop soon falls victim to the driver of the yellow truck, being run over repeatedly and injured severely in the process.
Nicole is able to drag the officer to the rest room, where the two seek refuge from the psychopath. The cop eventually realizes that the situation they are in is hopeless and commands Nicole to shoot him. She fails at first but eventually succeeds in the grisly task. The yellow truck driver eventually burns Nicole out of the building, but she manages to escape just before the building catches fully ablaze.
Once she is on the ground again, after getting off the roof Nicole encounters the man in the yellow truck once again. He exits the truck, and she sneaks up behind him, striking him with a crowbar. She turns him over and is shocked to discover it is actually Jess, with his mouth sewn shut, sporting other visible wounds.
Nicole sneaks to the convertible where she fills a whiskey bottle that she had retrieved from a nearby Park Ranger's station full of gasoline, in order to concoct a makeshift molotov cocktail in order to use against her attacker should he return.
Morning approaches, and she walks down the highway, with the the driver of the truck approaching her at a rapid speed. After some fumbling, she is able to strike a match, and light her molotov cocktail. She hurls the bottle at the truck and almost instantly it is consumed by flames, followed by a large explosion. After a few moments the camera view changes to behind Nicole, and a man, presumed to be the driver, strikes her and everything then fades to black.
As an epilogue, the film ends with a totally different girl going to the same rest stop, after it is renovated after the fire. She discovers Nicole in the maintenance room, and runs out to the Park Ranger (who has returned to his post) to inform him of her discovery. He goes into the room, after unlocking it, and no one seems to be present. After he leaves, Nicole is shown behind some janitorial equipment calling out for help and vomiting blood.
