One little sub-genre, or you could even say micro-genre, that I enjoy is “vacations gone wrong.” Sometimes this means films of the “torture porn” variety like Hostel, or killer plants like The Ruins, and everyone’s favorite backwoods murderous cannibal families like in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, House of 1000 Corpses, or Wrong Turn. With a films like Drive Back, you never really know what will be around the next bend.
“Cody Ashford’s directorial debut took audiences at 2024’s Screamfest LA on a windy road to madness. Drive Back follows Reid (Zack Gold) and Olivia (Whit Kunschik), an expecting couple who are on their way home from their engagement party. The drive back from Reid’s parents’ cabin is unfamiliar, cluing you into the nature of his relationship with his folks, yet he refuses to take Olivia’s advice on reading the map. The tension between Reid and Olivia nearly causes an accident, leaving them at a fork in the road. When they finally ask for directions from an overly eccentric elderly couple at the “I Forgot” Store, you’re left wondering if we’re being led down a road towards a hicksploitation style road-trip-gone-wrong film, but Drive Back has more twists and turns than expected.”
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xx – Vannah
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