Detour (2002)

An RV full of friends coming back from a desert rave, breaks down in cannibal country and soon they are fighting for their lives. This movie was pretty entertaining in some ways, especially if you like movies like The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There were a few major flaws to it though. First there were no real lead characters. The closet thing was two whiney girls and a white gangster wanna-be who speaks in ebonics the whole time. This brings me to the second point; no likeable characters. If you show us victims we hate, we're gonna root for the cannibals! 3 out of 5.

Characters

• Tara: Chick who attends a rave with her friends and ends up being attacked by cannibals. I know there's an After School Special message here someplace.
• Loopz: One of the most annoying characters I've ever crossed in a horror movie. White guy that speaks ebonics and deserved to die sooo bad.
• Harmony: Tara's best frined who gets abducted by the cannibals but lives.
• Neil: Driver of the RV, who I mistook as the lead. But he ends up as a severed head on a stick, and I think that might impare his role a little.
• Cashie: Gothic chick who gets drugged and flips out. Later gets stabbed repeatedly.
• Lee: Typical dumb guy who is there to get killed. Impaled in the back while haveing sex. Hey, there are worse ways to go.
• Michelle: Lee's whiney girlfriend who isn't too well liked by the rest of the group. Gets her foot impaled and later skinnned.
• Petey: Crazy gas station attendent who helps the direct fresh meat to the cannibals. Impaled.
• Angela: tough lesbian chick who gets impled with hooks early on.
• Tiff: The other lesbian who develops a sudden limp which prevents her for escaping being impaled on a bunch of wooded spikes.

The Totals

• Body Count: 18
• Weapons Used: Hooks, spears, guns, a screwdriver, a noose, acrossbow and a bone.
• Breast Shots: 1
• Moments where characters are mysteriously unable to run from certain death: 1
• Thunderstorms: 0
• Explosions: 0

Random Thoughts and Things Learned

• Ah, the dreeded sex cramp.
• A man with hooks for hands drives surprisingly well/
• Everyone is getting butchered, but somehow Vanilla Ice here lives?
• Cannibals growl a lot.