.....but who don't like sleepovers with college girls? I'm rating this a low 3 based on the fact that I don't like movies that are isolated, I prefer landscapes. Secondly the choices of the actresses are predictable/annoying and that would set perfectly for a bunch of hormonious late teen girls having a sleepover.For me, I have to take a couple of naps to finish this, it just doesn't move along for me to keep my attention all the way through.It does have some decent brief moments of splatter/gore though.

WARNING, SPOILER ALERT!! Penny Dreadful really is dreadful. Basically you see Penny spend the whole movie trapped in a car endlessly cowering and crying, while some escaped lunatic tries to terrorize her from outside. The movie spends more time showing her losing her mind then it does showing anything else. After about 30 straight minutes of he panicking and whimpering, it just gets old. I found myself wishing the nut job would just finish her off already! The character was just plain annoying, the plot sucked, and the ending was lame. It took me 3 tries to finish this movie. I don't mind slow build up, but this just builds up to nothing but a waste of time.

Being one of the more popular films from the After Dark Horrorfest lineup, I thought Penny Dreadful would be better. However, now I am assured that anyone who enjoys it is mentally unstable.PD has a simple premise. A young girl named Penny is in the wilderness with her Pshycatrist trying to overcome her fear of cars, which stemmed from a childhood car accident. The characters are also, stupidly going to the place where the accident occurred to "Complete the circle." Along the way, they hit a hitchhiker and then her Pshycatrist gets the brilliant idea to give him a ride. He says nothing once inside the car, and just generally acts creepy. After dropping him off, the nightmare begins as he turns out to be a vicious killer. He has heard Penny discussing her fear of cars and decides to toy with her throughout the night, by locking her in the car, and forcing her to watch his rather bland murders.It sounds interesting, I know. But it isn't. Most of the films time is taken up by people engaging in fascinating activities such as screaming, talking to dead people, screaming, over-dosing drugs when someone is trying to kill you, screaming, eating an apple, screaming and crying. Oh, yeah, and screaming.I never thought I'd say this, but Black Swan's sexual portrayal of a descent into madness is better than this crap.Who's afraid of immobile cars anyways? 1/10

I was waiting for the suspense. I was waiting for any kind of "unexpected events". I waited for 90 or so minutes. I needn't have bothered. Some people found the dire awfulness of this movie funny. I wasn't even able to enjoy it for that...The movie begins with a vaguely reasonable premise; that this girl is travelling with her psychiatrist to help her finally get past her phobia of cars... But once that has been established, anything you can imagine happening next would be better than what this movie puts you through.-Stop at a gas station. "Help! I'm in a car, I can't carry on. Oh OK, I'll get back in." -Hit a pot-hole (twice). "Help! I'm in a car, I can't carry on! OK OK, let's carry on." -Clip a hitchhiker with the car. "Help! I'm in a car, I'm going to die! Oh OK, let's take the slightly creepy yet apparently harmless victim of hit-and-don't-run and drop them deep in the mountain forest where there's nobody else around. I don't mind" -The car has a flat tyre blatantly caused by harmless raw-meat-eating (but generous to offer to share it. Sweet psycho ^^) silent hitchhiker. "No, don't leave my in this terrifying car by myself to find signal for your phone! Let me take one step away before falling on nothing and spraining my ankle to make this into a -real- horror film!"And so on.There was so little to enjoy, especially as Penny spent so much of the time whimpering or screaming at the slightest noise. Perhaps she can be forgiven a little, as she spent half the movie sitting trapped in the evil car with a decaying Mimi Rogers (refering to her character's lifelessness. Mimi's not that bad), but her tireless stupidity was grating.I'm afraid, as this was even the area where Penny's parents died in the car accident all those years ago, that I was waiting for any kind of linking of the two events. Some kind of mystical correlation that could perhaps explain what happened when she was a wee girly. It never came. I feel robbed. Kinda. Oh well.