Horror Queen

Please don’t, pick me up that is.

PLOT

A bus traveling down the highway abruptly dies and the passengers are left to stand by the side of the road. Stacia (Fariuza Balk) decides to walk into town and get away from the wait. A trucker by the name of Wheeler (Michael Moriarty, a Cohen staple) stops and offers the group a ride, with two taking him up on his offer. Birdy (Laurene Landon, another Cohen staple) seems way too interested in him, given that she’s gorgeous. She throws herself at him so hardcore that she must have just got out of prison. Wheeler makes a lot of jokes about killing people and she just laughs him off. Guess what happens? Another man by the name of Walker appears and instantly kills the people at the bus and chases one of the women through the woods before killing her. We then learn that both men are serial killers and that they don’t like the other. Walker hitchhikes and kills his rides and Wheeler picks up people just to kill them. Somehow Stacia ends up in the middle of it all.

TRIVIA

Directed by Larry Cohen who I won’t even attempt to list the credits of (except for It’s Alive) and based on a story by David Schow who wrote The Crow and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.

Quite a few horror/cult vets in this one including Balk, Moriarty, Landon and Crystal Lowe who appeared as one of the victims.

THOUGHTS

First of all, I despise Faruiza Balk with an intense passion. I can’t explain it, I just do. The mere thought of her makes me grind my teeth and I have yet to see a single movie where I liked her in any way. This movie isn’t the exception. I dug parts of the movie, just not the parts she was in. In fact when she came on screen, I wanted to fast forward. You’re supposed to feel bad for her, but I just wanted her to die. I will say that the ending is pretty good and I liked the nice twist to end things. It was kind of a middle of the road episode from the Masters of Horror series.

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