Transporting a dangerous witness through the desert, a federal agent and his team realize the abandoned road they're traveling on is haunted by the ghosts of an accident years ago and must try to get out alive.Overall, this one was better than it really should've been though there's some big problems within this. One of the better elements here is the film's far more action-packed roots that set the story up rather nicely, taking even the fact that this is initially based on a flimsy-but-workable approach of having the transport group serving interference against the hit-men. The opening shoot-out at the diner leads into the whole on-the-run premise that gets them through the rest of the movie makes this one quite interesting and every enjoyable by setting up a plausible situation for the other big action scenes along the way. The encounters with the ghosts along the highway work nicely by getting the gang involved quite well in a couple of enjoyable encounters and also giving this some rather graphic kills here which is nice considering the potential body count at hand. As well, the ghosts look quite nice and creepy here with the gravelly road-marks and dead eyes which really adds to this one with an overall great look added to the other factors in the film. There's still a few issues here with this one which really lowers this, as the biggest one here is the decided lack of time spent on the ghosts themselves. They're involve in just a few scenes here which is mainly due to the inclusion of the storyline about the corrupt cops being so heavily involved in the final half of this one. It really serves no purpose for their involvement since they're the only ones who know the group is out there and what's on the road to begin with, so their placement in the film is way too much for what would happen in real life and really takes a lot of the time up in the film doing this. As well, the films' indecision over whether they're ghosts or zombies is really problematic as they've referred to each yet break rules for both several times. It seems to settle on ghosts, but the ambiguity is a little unsettling and does come off hurting this along with the other flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

My second time catching this and loving it even more. Not in the ways one is suppose to I'm sure. The film is a B-Movie to the core, with cheesy acting, special effects and the whole lot.Lou Diamond Phillips, or as the cool kids call him, LDP, has to find and escort a witness back to court. The only problem is the witness is hiding out in the middle of the desert. The film opens with LDP finding him and the Russian gangsters he is testifying against tracking him down to kill him. A shootout occurs, one that is so horribly done that it feels like a low grade action film from the 80's.On their way to bring the witness back, LDP begins having these bizarre visions of a graveyard and prison workers dying. Is there a connection? Well, out of nowhere he claims his father is buried out here. Coincidence? I think not, some clever writers came up with some genius ideas in this script.At some point in the film, it becomes some sort of horror flick. With these zombies coming back from the dead to kill those who are on route 666. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention they take an abandoned road to get to their destination quicker. Isn't that always the case? These zombies get their 'power' from the road. That is a quote from the film. They are attracted from blood spilled.The acting is well done from LDP and Steven Williams, the witness. The rest are pretty bad. The effects, are cheesy. The film has some kind of weird choppy slow motion style when the zombies appear. The make-up on them is low rent. They look like gravel...like the road. Find any of this funny yet? I sure did.The film is one of those, so bad it's good. I find it hilariously good. If you can't find the humour in bad cheesy horror films, then this will not be for you. The climax involves LDP connecting to his dead father and giving him his blood to save everyone. Weird? Sure is. The dead zombie father becomes good and saves his son. This film even falls under the good old 'drinking game' category. Give it a whirl if you find bad horror films hilarious.

Federal agents Jack La Roca (Lou Diamond Phillips) and Stephanie (Lori Petty) track fugitive Fred Smith (Steven Williams, from JASON GOES TO HELL) along the desolate desert highways of the American southwest. Fred (who likes to be called Rabbit) is an Ivy league-educated former mob accountant who was put into the witness protection program and set to testify in court against his employers, but fled before the trial could begin. After he's apprehended, some mob goons show up for a brief shoot out and the trio are bailed out by four U.S. Marshall's (David Keith as the obligatory macho jerk of the group, a wasted Alex McArthur, Mercedes Colon as his girlfriend and some other guy who looks familiar from TV commercials). The seven then hit the road and need to get back to California in a hurry, so they take a shortcut off Route 66, despite the fact that it's blocked off and has a "cursed" reputation.Route 666 turns out to be quite cursed indeed, as they make a stop at a peculiar graveyard containing four graves that read like a Who's Who of the most infamous murderers and criminals of the 1960s. Soon, after, a quarter of supernatural, eyeless, blood-drinking zombies pop out of the road to kill. One is a former serial killer who cut out eyes and tongues, another happens to be Jack's bank robber father and each even has their own special weapon (a sledge hammer, chain, pick axe and jackhammer) to use against victims. If things couldn't get any worse, one of the mobsters follows them and some local corrupt police officers want to cover their tracks. Jack has visions that explain why the dead chain gang member's souls were unable to rest in peace and ends up separated from the group, where in a completely pointless subplot, he drinks peyote tea with a pipe-smoking Indian (Gary Farmer).Veteran character actor L.Q. Jones turns up in a supporting role as the evil/elderly town Sheriff, who is first seen sitting behind a desk reading The Tell-Tale Heart and also turns out to be the one responsible for shooting and then running over the four chain gang members with a steam roller in 1965! He blows a hole in one woman with a shotgun, pistol whips Keith and threatens to blow Petty's tit off before poetic justice comes, uh, rolling over him. Dick Miller is also here, but wasted in a nothing cameo. He's in the very first scene as a bartender and has only two lines. The acting (particularly Phillips and Williams) is pretty good, the story is acceptable (even though the subplot between Jack and his dead father doesn't come off at all and helps turn the end a bit silly), the desert and run-down drive-in theater locations are used fairly well and there's a good sense of humor and some witty dialogue.It's not a bad movie, but I had to deduct a couple of points for several reasons. The most irritating aspect of the story is that you can only be killed by the ghouls when you are standing directly ON the road. Everyone finds this out about midway through and the characters still continue to go on it, as if they're asking to die. One guy even dies because he goes to get his friggin' cigarettes! Much worse than that is the overuse of irritating "shakycam" camera-work (just as it sounds, the camera just jiggles around all over the place for no apparent reason), which helps to ruin most of the action/horror scenes.

There are movies that make you want to take a fork and dig your eyes out, well, this movie will make you wish you were both blind and deaf so you don't have to know it exist.The only good thing about this movie is that you know that most characters will die, this is but a small consolation because the hero and his girlfriend survive. The director's mother is probably so proud of her son, and the mothers of the film crew, I'm sure they wished they had aborted their children while they still had a chance. I guess anybody who has seen this film wishes that the mothers would have terminated their children, why do all have to suffer for their mistakes, isn't the world a bad place already, do we really need more suffering.