Incident on and off a Mountain RoadYear: 2005 Director: Don Coscarelli Written by: Don Coscarelli, Stephen Romano Threat: Psychopath Weapon of Choice: Dead Baby Based upon: short story -- Joe Lansdale Color/B&W/3D: Color Language: English Country of Origin: US IMDb page: |
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Rish Outfield's reviews
Incident on and off a Mountain Road. That's a long title, man.
I've never been a Don Coscarelli fan (though Bubba
Ho-Tep is quite good), but I found this to be very well done. Very good, I'd say,
but it didn't reach the great heights of Cigarette
Burns, but then, that episode was better than most movies I pay seven dollars
to see.
Based on a Joe Lansdale story, Incident tells of a young woman who, alone in
the woods, is stalked by the sickest of serial killers. But due to earlier experiences with
the outdoors and violence, she isn't quite as helpless as she might otherwise be.
Bree Turner is quite attractive, and seems to be a capable actress too. It was strange
to see Ethan Embry, so bald and so fat, in a less-than-heroic role. What I liked most
about the film was Angus Scrimm as an insane old man, gibbering and laughing when
he isn't delivering exposition.
There were a lot of interesting shots, such as the iconic "leap in front of the moon" they
show on all the promos. There was a nice reveal at the end, both visually and story-wise.
Posted: September 19, 2006
Total Skulls: 11
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| Sequel setup | ||
| Rips off earlier film | ||
| Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
| Future celebrity appears | ||
| Former celebrity appears | ||
| Bad title | ||
| Bad premise | ||
| Bad acting | ||
| Bad dialogue | ||
| Bad execution | ||
| MTV Editing | ||
| OTS | ||
| Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
| Wanton sex |  |
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| Death associated with sex | |
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| Unfulfilled promise of nudity | |
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| Characters forget about threat | ||
| Secluded location | |
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| Power is cut | ||
| Phone lines are cut | |
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| Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
| Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
| Camera is the killer | ||
| Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
| Victim locks self in with killer | ||
| Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | |
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| Toilet stall scene | ||
| Shower/bath scene | ||
| Car stalls or won't start | |
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| Cat jumps out | ||
| Fake scare | ||
| Laughable scare | ||
| Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
| Dream sequence | ||
| Hallucination/Vision | ||
| No one believes only witness | ||
| Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
| Warning goes unheeded | ||
| Music detracts from scene | ||
| Death in first five minutes | ||
| x years before/later | ||
| Flashback sequence | |
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| Dark and stormy night | |
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| Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
| Killer wears a mask | ||
| Killer is in closet | ||
| Killer is in car with victim | ||
| Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
| Unscary villain/monster | ||
| Beheading | ||
| Blood fountain | ||
| Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc. | ||
| Poor death effect | ||
| Excessive gore | ||
| No one dies at all | ||
| Virgin survives | ||
| Geek/Nerd survives | ||
| Little kid lamely survives | ||
| Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
| Unresolved subplots | ||
| "It was all a dream" ending | ||
| Unbelievably happy ending | ||
| Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
| What the hell? |
