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	MPAA Rating:	R IMDB
	Category:	Horror
	Overall:	7/10
	Scary/Suspense:	7/10
	Gore/Yuck:	8/10
	Story:	5/10
	SFX:	7/10
	Acting:	6/10

Quick Synopsis:

Two wilderness vacationers, Seth and Polly, stop to help a woman on the side of the road and quickly find themselves hostages of the a convict boyfriend on the run.   The whole group quickly finds themselves in even bigger danger when they hit some meaty animal in the middle of the road which mysteriously punctures both a tire and the radiator.   They seek supplies at a remote gas station, which quickly becomes their prison, as they find out what kind of biological abomination they are dealing with.

The Bad:

• Seth.  He is supposed to be a PhD student in biology yet he is remarkably weak and idiotic.
• The escape and end of the movie is kind of half-assed.  They should have just gone with their first plan.
• The origination of the splinter organsim was explained by an “experimental oil field” sign as they drove past.

The Good:

• The splinter organism reminded me of 28 days later.  Fast and easily infectious.
• There was lots of gore and limbs moving the wrong directions.
• The movie created a good sense of being trapped.

Final Thoughts:

Wow, using a box cutter an a cinder block for amputation purposes doesn’t get much creepier.   The oily splinter organism was a cool idea that captured the same panic as 28 days later.

Tags: oily, organism, spikey, splinter