The Road Reviews

If it's patchy and derivative it also has a compelling, soapy undertow that kept me watching.

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... Enough rattling thrills for the date-night crowd, and enough story and character for older film buffs to chew on. The ride home afterwards might require your high beams.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

[Laranas] delivers a maximum of suspense and horror, working wonders with a small budget.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

This philosophical film helps elevate the film above the usual scared-teenager shocker although, sometimes, the film ignores the bread-and-butter demands of the genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The film's three-pronged narrative does a fair job of laying a spooky groundwork for the revelatory emotional sadism that lies behind most acts of evil; it just takes a bit of clunky exposition to get there.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A powerfully atmospheric blend of ghostly encounters, horrific situations and missing-persons mysteries from the Philippine director Yam Laranas.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

This low-budget shocker eventually pays off, displaying just enough narrative ingenuity to compensate for a cinematically crude and logistically sketchy deployment of the requisite blood-and-guts mayhem.

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Although the story doesn't always quite hold, "The Road" is still a satisfyingly creepy film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

The Road spends most of its time going in circles, working and reworking a small set of potent images.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Call it a haircut of Psycho with ectoplasmic additives, The Road still has a whispering menace and visual grandeur all its own.

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Laranas definitely has the mind and vision for good horror, but still has a bit to go before he can be called a 'master of the genre.'

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

While effectively moody...proves overlong for optimal shock value, with entirely too many dull stretches along the way.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Genre fans beware -- 'The Road' proves a bumpy ride, slow-going, monotonous and, the most unforgivable sin of all, not in the least scary.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Heavy on atmosphere, but light on substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

For a spell, the film gets by on its unpretentious flair for atmosphere, even its disconcerting nonsensicality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4