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Rest Stop (2006)
Surprisingly good movie on a well exhausted theme
I didn't expect to enjoy this movie but was pleasantly surprised. I've seen several movies with the same theme (the names of which escape me) but this one is the best of the bunch.
The opening scenes build up a picture of the relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend and it leaves you with the impression that they are both going to be the main characters throughout the film. Their relationship is filled with passion but it is obvious that they kind of get on each others nerves.
When they stop off at the "rest stop" (10 minutes or so into the film) he mysteriously disappears leaving her stranded 60 miles away from the next town. Then the horror begins.
A psychotic murderer is toying with her fear and it becomes apparent that he has been torturing and murdering visitors to the rest stop for the past 30 years or so. The villain in the film is somehow supernatural as inexplicable things happen, for example; when he smashes his pickup truck into the couples car the pickup truck miraculously escapes without a scratch.
The thing that separates this movie from others in the same genre is the superb acting. I ws totally drawn int the movie from start to finish. As you might expect, it ends with a supernatural twist.