Joy Ride 3: Roadkill
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| Joy Ride 3 | |
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| Directed by | Declan O'Brien |
| Written by | Declan O'Brien |
| Produced by | Kim Todd |
| Starring | Jesse Hutch Kirsten Prout Ben Hollingsworth Dean Armstrong Ken Kirzinger |
| Cinematography | Michael Marshall |
| Edited by | Michael Trent |
| Music by | Claude Foisy |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Joy Ride 3 (also known as Roadkill 3) is a 2014 American thriller horror film. The film was written and directed by Declan O'Brien and was released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The film is a direct-to-video sequel to the 2008 film Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead and the third installment of the Joy Ride series. The film was released on DVD on June 17, 2014.
Plot
Rob and Candy are holed up in a motel room, smoking meth and having sex. When they run out of drugs, Rob convinces Candy to use the CB to lure a trucker to their room, so they can rob him. Rusty Nail responds to Candy's summons. When Rob answers the door, Rusty realizes he's been tricked and takes the pair captive. Rob and Candy are chained to each other and the axle of Rusty Nail's truck. He takes them to a deserted stretch of Highway 17 and tells them he will let them go if they can hang on to the hood of the truck for a mile. If one of them falls, the other will be pulled off the truck by the chain, and both will die under the truck. He tapes a bag of meth to the windshield of his truck, telling them they can have the drugs after they make it. After riding awhile, Rob calls out that they have ridden for at least a mile, and Rusty Nail agrees. Thinking they have made it, Candy reaches for the bag of drugs; her chain is pulled into the axle, and she and Rob are both pulled underneath the still-moving truck and killed. Later, the authorities are called to the scene; Officer Williams, a newly appointed deputy, wants to investigate further, but is encouraged by Officer Jenkins to make it an open-and-shut case.
Racecar drivers Jordon and Austin, along with their team -- composed of Jewel (manager, Jordon's girlfriend), Mickey (mechanic, pit crew chief), Alisa (PR, Mickey's girlfriend), and Bobby (groupie) -- are caravanning from Kansas to Canada to compete in the Road Rally 1000; they're transporting the racecar via SUV with flatbed trailer attached, and they have walkie-talkies to communicate from car to car. When they stop for lunch, Austin finds Highway 17 on a map; he discovers that it would make their journey quicker. When they ask a creepy truck driver, Barry, for directions, he warns them against taking 17; he tells them it's called "Slaughter Alley", and tells them the story of Rusty Nail, who has become something of an urban legend. Jenkins stops in for a cup of coffee and denies Barry's claims, encouraging them to take 17. Barry tells them that stretch of highway is unpatrolled, which appeals to Austin, who wants to be able to test the limits of their car on open road, so they decide to go that way.
Austin drives the racecar and Jordon, Jewel, and Alisa ride along. When they tease Austin about a wreck he had previously gotten in, he vents his frustration by messing with a truck driver (who just happens to be Rusty Nail) and then speeding off. Rusty Nail catches up to the group and the three cars engage in a battle of wills. Ultimately, Rusty Nail jackknifes and the others drive off. The girls try to convince Jordon to stop, but he refuses, worried a mark on his record will cost them the race. Thanks to a camera he has mounted to the front of the truck, Rusty Nail identifies Jordon's license number, and then uses the CB to hail them; he has found their website and now knows exactly who they all are, threatening to make them pay for what they did. Jordon disregards his threats, and the team continues on. However, everyone is at odds over how to proceed. After Jewel fights with Jordon, she and Austin leave in the SUV to go to the police, as the others continue on in the racecar. Rusty Nail catches up to Jewel and Austin, runs them off the road and puts their unconscious bodies in the back of his truck. The others are worried when they can't reach Jewel and Austin.
Rusty kills Austin by putting his hands and then face through the engine fan of his truck. He then summons the group to an old warehouse, where he kidnaps Bobby and flees in the truck. Jordon, Mickey, and Alisa follow in the racecar; they briefly encounter Jenkins, who agrees to help find their friends, but Rusty obliterates his cruiser and kills him. Officer Williams finds the wrecked SUV and Jenkins' burnt-out cruiser. Rusty kills Bobby as the group listens helplessly via walkie-talkie. Rusty then tells Jordon to meet him at a junkyard and give himself up; only then will he set Jewel and Austin free. Mickey wants to go get help instead, while Jordon and Alisa want to go save their friends. Mickey leaves for help on foot and is captured and killed by Rusty Nail.
Jordon sends Alisa to go get help and enters the junkyard alone. He is drawn to the crusher by Jewel's screams. Rusty indicates she is trapped inside a car about to be crushed. Just as it seems Rusty has the upper hand, Alisa runs him over with the racecar, and she and Jordon go to rescue Jewel from the crusher. However, Jordon only finds the video camera in the trunk of the crushed car; it is playing previously shot footage of Jewel. It's revealed that Rusty Nail tied her to the roof of the truck and ran her into the girders of a steel bridge, killing her. Enraged, Jordon and Alisa get in the car to go find Rusty Nail, but he rams into them, trying to crush them. Alisa's leg is stuck, keeping her from getting out. Jordon runs to a nearby wrecking claw and uses it to put Rusty's truck in the crusher, with Rusty inside. Later, however, when Williams and his men investigate, Rusty Nail is nowhere to be found. The film ends with Rusty Nail hitching a ride with another truck driver.
Cast
- Jesse Hutch as Jordon Wells
- Kirsten Prout as Jewel McCaul
- Ben Hollingsworth as Mickey Cole
- Leela Savasta as Alisa Rosado
- Gianpaolo Venuta as Austin Moore
- Jake Manley as Bobby Crow
- Sara Mitich as Candy
- J. Adam Brown as Rob
- Dean Armstrong as Officer Charlie Williams
- Ken Kirzinger as Rusty Nail