My review was written in June 1992 after watching the film on New Line video cassette.
New Line has a sleeper in this thriller, made in America by German producers. Direct-to-video release could also score in the pay-cable market
Interesting premise by director Yuri Zeltser and co-scripter Michael Stewart traces the fate of two young brothers living at a highway gas station/motel/diner who witness their parents' brutal muder by a robber couple.
Ten years later, older brother Craig Sheffer is taking care of youngster Bradley Gregg, who was blinded in the violent incident. They're sympathetic characters, but the script keeps one guessing as to whether one (or both) of them has become a Norman Bates-esque psychotic.
Matters come to a head when Dennis Hopper's car breaks down and he stays at the boys' gas station with his sexy young wife Lara Flynn Boyle. As in "Paris Trout", Hopper makes a perfect boorish heavy, and under Zeltser's direction, the viewer's sympathy is frequently inverted regarding who to root for.
The film climaxes violently and satisfyingly during a thunderstorm in which emotions flare according to the barometer.
Boyle, post-"Twin Peaks", continues to be one of the sexier young actresses on screen and the entire ensemble cast is good. Tech credits are modest.
New Line has a sleeper in this thriller, made in America by German producers. Direct-to-video release could also score in the pay-cable market
Interesting premise by director Yuri Zeltser and co-scripter Michael Stewart traces the fate of two young brothers living at a highway gas station/motel/diner who witness their parents' brutal muder by a robber couple.
Ten years later, older brother Craig Sheffer is taking care of youngster Bradley Gregg, who was blinded in the violent incident. They're sympathetic characters, but the script keeps one guessing as to whether one (or both) of them has become a Norman Bates-esque psychotic.
Matters come to a head when Dennis Hopper's car breaks down and he stays at the boys' gas station with his sexy young wife Lara Flynn Boyle. As in "Paris Trout", Hopper makes a perfect boorish heavy, and under Zeltser's direction, the viewer's sympathy is frequently inverted regarding who to root for.
The film climaxes violently and satisfyingly during a thunderstorm in which emotions flare according to the barometer.
Boyle, post-"Twin Peaks", continues to be one of the sexier young actresses on screen and the entire ensemble cast is good. Tech credits are modest.