gavin6942 After accidentally killing his wife (whom he's cheating on), a photographer puts her body in the trunk and brings her to Black Lake. But along the way he gets visions of his dead wife and encounters other obstacles (mentally unstable men, police officers, etc.) and will have to battle to retain his sanity.Before I say anything else, I want to give a huge round of applause to the band Maximum Indifference. When I saw their name in the opening credits, I was confused -- what is a "maximum indifference"? Aren't you either indifferent or not? But they provided the music for this film, and it is fantastic. I strongly suggest you check out their web site and if you're a filmmaker consider hiring them to make some music for you. They are specifically prepared to help with movie background tunes, and I can't say I've ever heard better. If there was a strong point to the film, it was them.Now, I also have to defend this movie. I have seen other reviews that say the acting is horrible and that all negative comments are understatements. Yes, the acting is not the greatest. But it's not the worst I've seen. And some other qualities about this film cannot be ignored. I found some of it to be quite creepy: a dark road, middle of the night, strange occurrences... with camera shots trapping us in to see only what comes into the light at the last second. I never knew what would jump out next.The suspense and tension were well done. When the cops visit him (more than once) I wasn't sure if he was going to be busted, or if he wasn't how he was going to get out of it. I enjoyed the blood splatter. There was a lot going for this film, especially if you consider the fact everyone involved is a fresh face. Also, despite starring Americans, this film had more of an Asian feel -- if you judge it as an Asian film, it was actually much better (as I've said in other reviews -- I believe "Dream Cruise", for example -- Asian films have an element of the supernatural that would seem cheesy or stupid in American films but works for them).What made this film fail, besides the less than stellar acting, was the fact there really was no story. Time was filled with extra shots of his driving, we see some repeated things (lighting cigarettes, similar road scenes). Most if not all of the flashbacks told nothing crucial or helpful to the story. In short, this film could have been a 30-minute television feature. Compare this to the "thanks for the ride, lady" sequence from "Creepshow 2". That was only about 15 minutes and got the point across. This could have been done in the same way... it never should have been a full-length film.When the film wasn't giving me bad acting or boring me to death, it was a good film. I cannot make something like this myself (well, probably not). 2006 saw more horror DVD releases than any time in world history (or at least it seems that way), so unless you're watching as many as I do, you'll never find this one floating to the top of your must-see list. I guess the Japanese girl is sort of cute, but not cute enough to really sell this film. Sorry, "Haunted Highway", you're a dead end.

Horrorible_Horror_Films Wow, there are bad movies, then there is this. Most bad horror movies made this millinium are entertaingly bad, this is one of the few that are even worse than that. The main character is one of the worst actors I've ever seen, and are we supposed to believe that his wife died just by falling on the floor?? Literally thats what happens - she falls on the floor, then for some reason there is tons and tons of fake blood coming out near her head! Its absolutely stupid to the nth degree. The best acting was done by the cops that pulled him over while he was driving around with his dead wife in the trunk - seriously they were they were much better than any of the other actors - why the hell weren't they given the main part? So terrible, I think the directory of photography must have used candle light to light this film it was so terrible. If you want an entertaining bad b-movie horror, go rent something with tifanny shepis in it, this movie sucked ass.

Conwad-1 I don't understand all the hatred toward this film. Yes, it stars people you've never heard of and will probably never see again, but it's better than a lot of other movies ... and I rent a lot of them! At the very least, you can appreciate that: the Lead Actor was GORGEOUS; the Japanese lady Yumi? was gorgeous; scenery was pretty; car was cool -- makes me want to upgrade from my Camry to a Lexus. I was actually surprised when Yumi appeared crawling up the driver's window while he was driving -- I thought that was cool. Oh and her apartment, with the green and purple walls, and the zen like -feng shu furnishings ... I just thought this was a very nice movie to look at, at least. I liked it better than that piece of crap THE SIXTH SENSE, don't get me started on that!

carolinefranck Even though the movie got off to a terrible start, I think a big chunk of this movie is very watchable. In fact I think if it were done better, it would be a personal favorite of mine. However, the movie had some serious problems. Particularly the flashbacks are just hard to watch, badly acted and even poorly scripted. I really liked the idea behind the movie, it's too bad certain aspects took a lot of wind out of it's own sails. Low production values didn't help but the effects weren't horrible and the movie was overall pretty scary. It's important to keep in mind that this is a very low budget, independent horror movie. Rent it one night if you can't find anything else, it's better than a lot of "movies" currently hitting the DTV market.6/10