Freeway II - Highway to Hell
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Freeway II - Highway to Hell |
| Original title | Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (shortened) |
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| Director | Matthew Bright |
| script | Matthew Bright |
| production | Natasha Lyonne , Brad Wyman |
| music | Louise Post , Kennard Ramsey |
| camera | Joel Ransomware |
| cut | Suzanne Hines |
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Freeway II - Highway to Hell ( Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby ) is an American thriller comedy by Matthew Bright from the year 1999 .
action
The youthful bulimia -kranke drug dealer Crystal Van Meuther was sentenced to a prison term of 25 years. She spends time in a juvenile detention center, from which she and the schizophrenic serial killer Angela Garcia break out.
Garcia kills a family and then practices necrophilia . The girls break out and head south in a stolen car. After an accident, they kill other people, take weapons from them and end up in Tijuana .
Garcia and Crystal rob people in Tijuana. They start a lesbian affair with each other . Sister Gomez, whom Garcia had known since childhood, comes to town. She thinks she can help both of them. Garcia disappears without a trace and Van Meuther tries to raise money and discovers a room in Sister Gomez's house with trapped children and traces of blood. She finds out that Sister Gomez is a cannibal who is the leader of a child porn ring. Van Meuther frees Garcia and realizes that Sister Gomez is not only to blame for Garcia's psychosis, but also a man in disguise. The girls force him into an oven where they burn him alive.
Later, on the basis of the promise given, Van Meuther kills her friend who is hoping for reincarnation. She negotiates safe conduct with the policemen who are storming the house. Van Meuther and her lawyer leave town.
Reviews
Mick LaSalle wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle on 8 October 1999 that the continuation of the film Freeway is the first film since the release of the original, which was similar to the original. It shows a similar " sensitivity " as the original. LaSalle praised the script, the direction and the rendering.
background
The film was shot in Mexico and Vancouver from February to March 1999. Its production amounted to an estimated 2 million US dollars .
Director and writer, Matthew Bright , was inspired by Grimm's fairy tales Hansel and Gretel . Accordingly, grotesque elements appear again and again in the film, which mix fantasy and reality. Just as in fairy tales the witch lures children into her crunchy house disguised as an old woman, Sister Gomez, as a modern witch, is a cannibal disguised as a woman, who abuses children for pornographic purposes and wants to fatten up Crystal in order to ultimately eat them. As a result, she is pushed into the oven by Crystal and Angela at the end and there also takes on the facial features of the witch from the fairy tale.
Web links
- Freeway II - Highway to Hell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Freeway II - Highway to Hell at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 18 - BBFC 18 from Freeway II - Highway to Hell at Schnittberichte.com