Detour (Video 2003)

Detour: Directed by Steve Taylor. With Ashley Elizabeth Reed, Aaron Buer, Brent Taylor, Danna Brady. A group on their way to a rave become involved in a string of events that leaves them stranded in a desert. What follows is a nights of terror as they are set upon by a gang of drug crazed cannibals

“I expected little from watching Detour, but part of me was intrigued so I went on to watch it regardless. Detour does have some things that were not so bad. The photography is decent, with some fairly good use of colours and angles. The ending is scary, the one scene of Detour that genuinely is so. And some of the killings themselves in methodical terms are quite inventive. Unfortunately for Detour that is it for the redeeming qualities. I have seen much cheaper scenery, but the lighting generally is dull and the setting has been used so many times that I just didnu0026#39;t care. On a visual front though, where Detour was cheapened the most was in the special effects, which look so fake against the surroundings and they have a very unfinished quality to it. The sound effects manage to be bizarre and misplaced, while the script is lacking in tension and purpose coming across as stilted instead, the pace is leaden, the direction is flat and the story- if we forget for a minute that it is highly derivative of The Hills Have Eyes and pales massively in comparison- has nothing suspenseful or surprising in it with many of the scenes rather stupid rather than terrifying. The characters, aside from the obvious stereotypes, are both cardboard and annoying, Loopz being the absolute worst, and the eager but bland overall standard of the acting does little to help matters. It is true that the girls are incredibly beautiful and sexy, but what is there in their looks doesnu0026#39;t come across at all in their acting ability. The cannibals are not much of a threat if at all, alternatively as well as looking atrocious they are very characterless villains. In conclusion, not an utter catastrophe but best avoided. 3/10 Bethany Cox”