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Sequel should have been the end. (spoiler warning)


Come on, the hillbilly's soul should have been released. Eye burning ritual was completed.

The closing scene was unacceptable, very disappointing. End this crappy series already!

I hear that the alternate ending was better. Couldn't see it since the Blu-ray release does not include -any- special features. Way to go quality control.

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I'm glad it's continuing (hopefully) xD

Rest Stop is my guilty pleasure. So bad yet I love it.

[B]Special Agent PETER EFFING STRAHM ftw!

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You never actually SAW the eyes being burned, it was assumed the boys had them and the boys were in the camper when it went up in flames. This doesn't, however, explain why the man in the truck just disappeared when it blew up. I don't know, that's what I hate about ghost movies that follow multiple hallucinations and try to alternate reality. It's just a lazy way of telling a story.

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Yeah I'd have to agree. I thought it couldn't get worse than the first one, which was a mess, but I was wrong. It got worse, and actually made the first one seem watchable, which it isnt.

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The first one is watchable. You just have zero taste in movies.

"A reality is just what we tell each other it is..."

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I agree with you completely, definitely watchable.

For these idiots complaining, if you didn't like the first one then why watch the second one?

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I watched both for the first time today, having bought them on one disc for $5 at Big Lots. I thought the first one was really bad. Bad pacing, bad plotting, unrealistic behavior by the lead girl, Joey Lawrence doing most of his part on his back. . . And the "ghost" part of it was kind of opaque.

I only watched the second to see if it might be a little better, since the blurb on the box sounded semi-intriguing. And I thought it was better, much better than the first. The ghost element was much more consistent. The acting was halfway decent. You no longer wonder why the "driver" keeps leaving and coming back. I was able to enjoy it much more for kind of knowing what I was dealing with. It was far from perfect, but it kept me watching. And the ending actually kind of surprised me. Oh, and Richard Tillman is smokin' hot. Yow.

Now, all of that said, the business about the bus felt like it came out of Jeepers Creepers, and doesn't really square with the driver's character. The creepy Winnebago family is out of left field too, and I can't figure out if they created the driver or he created them, or it's symbiosis or whatever. Not terribly coherent. But it was still a much better film than the first.

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when the crazy rv Family killed the human kzl303 they made him into the ghost killer he is. when he came back for revenge and butchered them kzl303 made sure weird family is as doomed as him


Rob Zombie is one of the greatest directors today

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presumably the truck drivers eyes were not there however maybe scotty's eyes were there so he was using it as an opportunity to free himself seeing as his family was the only ones outside the truck driver aware their dead.

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Personally I get more offended by someone thinking a person telling a story in a different way than you like it, "lazy".

If the writer wanted the story to be weird and play out as it did, it's how he wanted to tell it. You or I may not think much of it, but where the hell do you get off calling them lazy for it?

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