Jamie Alexander stars as Nicole Carrow in the first film from Raw Feed, and it’s quite an enjoyable first effort from the team that brought us genre shows such as The X-Files and Supernatural.
Rest Stop begins as Nicole and her boyfriend Jess embark on a road trip to Hollywood in search of The American Dream. Nicole has come along reluctantly and when Jess’s plans fall through the two argue. Jess pulls over and Nicole storms off to the rest stop. When she returns however, Jess has disappeared and Nicole soon finds herself stranded at the rest stop having to fend off a psycho trucker.
The film starts out well and contains quite a risqué sex scene for a teen terror flick and it actually manages to remain enjoyable throughout, thanks to some good set pieces and some gore.
The cast are enjoyable, with an almost unrecognizable Joey Lawrence in particular, coming across incredibly well.
OVERALL SUMMARY
Rest Stop was a good film to launch the Raw Feed label as it’s a fun fright flick in the vein of The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn and The Hitcher; movies which are all popular right now. It’s not as good as Believers but it’s better than Sublime.