Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead

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Movie
German title Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead
Original title Joy Ride: Dead Ahead
Country of production USA , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Louis Morneau
script James Robert Johnston ,
Bennett Yellin
production Connie Dolphin
music Christopher Covert
camera Robert New
cut Mats Olsson
occupation

Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead (alternative title: Joy Ride: End of the Road ) is a US-Canadian thriller from 2008 and a sequel to the film Joyride . In 2014another film in the series wasreleased with Joy Ride 3: Road Kill .

action

The two sisters Melissa and Kayla and Melissa's fiancé Bobby are on their way to Las Vegas in their old car , taking Kayla's Internet friend Nik with them along the way. When their vehicle breaks off the highway in the middle of the Nevada desert , they walk to the nearest building. Nik doesn't hesitate and forcibly enters the apparently abandoned wooden house, which earns him criticism from Bobby and Melissa.

However, because they urgently need a phone or a means of transport, they begin to search the property and discover a tarpaulin-covered Chevrolet with CB radio in a nearby shed . With the intention of only getting to the nearest rental car, they “borrow” the vehicle, whereby Melissa leaves a slip of paper for the owner with her mobile phone number. However, the owner of the estate and the Chevrolet is a serial killer who works as a truck driver .

While having lunch in a restaurant on the highway, the killer kidnaps Melissa's fiancé. Then he calls Melissa by phone, identifies himself as the owner of the car and tells her that she should now do whatever he wants, otherwise he will kill Bobby. He calls himself “Rusty Nail”, gives her a frequency for the CB radio and then orders her to destroy all cell phones that she is carrying. After Melissa did this to violent protests from Nik, "Rusty Nail" reminds her of an incident before Bobby's kidnapping, when Kayla had shown the middle finger of a truck driver speeding by. Now the killer gives the order to bring Kayla's severed finger to him. Since this is out of the question for the three of them, they break into a funeral home instead and steal the finger of a corpse. At the agreed meeting point, he orders Melissa to strip in front of a truck, while Nik and Kayla prepare to overpower "Rusty Nail" in the driver's cab. After Melissa has undressed down to her underwear and brings her finger to the driver's door of the truck, it opens and a complete stranger sits at the wheel who filmed the strip and says he was ordered here by a truck colleague to have some fun with one Woman experience.

When Melissa tries to confront the killer over the radio, he admits to having seen her at the funeral home. To demonstrate the difference between a “dead” finger and a newly severed finger to Melissa, he refers her to the Chevrolet's glove compartment where Bobby's ring finger is located. Melissa breaks down and says that from now on she will do whatever he says. Next, he guides the three of them to a trucker party off the highway, where Nik disguises himself as a prostitute and is supposed to get drugs . "Rusty Nail" uses the mess at the party to kidnap Nik. When trying to follow “Rusty Nail”, he suddenly appears with his truck behind the two women and pushes the car off the road. After Melissa was able to save herself from the wreckage, Kayla dies when the truck crashes into the car that crashed again.

After "Rusty Nail" drove back to his property, he ties Nik to a table at which Bobby is also sitting. Both are now forced to play a sadistic game of dice, with the number rolled representing torture inflicted on the other. After Nik is pierced with an iron rod and dies in the process, Bobby survives the game with a shattered kneecap and a burn to his chest. Meanwhile, Melissa steals a police motorcycle from a workshop and also goes to the property of "Rusty Nail". Bobby is loading Bobby in the trailer of his truck when he is knocked down by Melissa. When she starts the truck to escape, however, she is attacked by the killer. After Bobby managed to free herself from the trailer, Melissa steers the truck into a ravine, jumping out of the cab beforehand.

A woman then stops with her car on a deserted street when a truck stops next to her and the driver asks her to get in with a "Rusty Nails" voice, which she does.

Reviews

“Nothing new from the serial killer front, even if the plot strives for more differentiated characters. Despite a few surprising script ideas, a subgenre is nearing its end. "

- Lexicon of international film

“While part 1 skilfully followed the suspense tracks of Steven Spielberg's road movie thriller Duel , the killer is now relied on to take a harder pace in the still exciting psychological harassment of the killer. And after film series like Saw and Hostel this is of course called 'torture porn' these days: mutilations, beheadings and bestial murders in close-up require a certain callousness on the part of the inclined viewer. Conclusion: moderate comeback of the nasty terror trucker. "

- Cinema

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed April 15, 2012.
  2. ↑ Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead on cinema.de