| TriStar Pictures | Release Date: February 21, 1986 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
6
Mixed:
1
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews
A slasher movie about gay panic, a nasty piece of homophobic angst for the age of AIDs. [25 Feb 1986]
It's a cheap, easy rehash of Spielberg's "Duel" and "The Hitchhiker" (which Red may not have seen)--along with grabs from "Halloween" (the unstoppable fiend), "Jackson County Jail" (the innocent motorist driven outside the law) and "Straw Dogs" (manhood through blood rites). Nothing is original.
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On its own terms, this movie is diseased and corrupt. I would have admired it more if it had found the courage to acknowledge the real relationship it was portraying between Howell and Rutger, but no: It prefers to disguise itself as a violent thriller, and on that level it is reprehensible.
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A nauseating thriller that reaches down from the screen and defies you to stay in the theater to see what desecration of the human body it will present next. [24 Feb 1986, p.C3]
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