Get Ready To Be Sad...


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I was at the same screening in Austin as the AICN reviewer, and I can attest that the negativity of that review was dead on. This "movie" is horrible. I hate to even call it a movie. About 25 percent of the dialog consists of one of the stripper/murderer characters saying "F#$k, Ash" to the other stripper/murderer character, who is named Ashley. The writer is clearly obsessed with the f-bomb and with arbitrary violence against women. Nothing in this "film" makes sense without some drug consumption on the part of the audience getting involved. If I had been really high on shrooms, I probably would've at least enjoyed the horrific green screen backdrops. To say that this is plotless is an understatement.

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I wrote that review. Since I just looked up this movie on imdb again recently, I have discovered that someone has totally planted reviews for this film, up voted the plants, and down voted the one honest review. Of those four reviews that I suspect were planted, all three sound like they were written by the same person.

Most insulting of all, the reviewers claim to have been at the same Fantastic Fest screening I was at. I know this is false, because I was one of only about ten people who did not walk out before "Road to Hell" was finished and I knew nearly all of the people that stayed. This of course excludes the filmmakers who were watching from the balcony.

Which brings me to my next point. Those specious positive reviews I believe to be planted all sound very very similar to the way the writer of this film talked that night. In fact, a couple of the lines of the "reviews" sound like direct quotes from her as she tried to describe her vision for the movie beforehand. All four were posted within two weeks of each other in the summer of 2009, by users who never posted any other reviews (in the case of two users), or only posted negative reviews of other things the same day as their positive "Road to Hell" reviews and haven't posted anything since.

It really pains me to think that any other "Streets of Fire" fans are looking forward to this the same way I was. I don't know how or when it happened, but Albert Pyun has lost his way. He forgot how to entertain.

"Road to Hell" is fundamentally flawed and should never have been attempted with such an insultingly horrible script. Fans of Pyun's early work and especially fans of "Streets of Fire" should just give up on this now. There is no salvaging it.

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Pyn's posting clips from the current version of the movie. Not sure how much it differs from what you saw but I like the music and editing a lot in the recent clips. It has a bit of the Streets of Fire energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_YTFi1MD6U&list=UUk3gniQINcyQnlblYkFsP9w&index=1&feature=plcp

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Welcome to the dishonest world of Albert Pyun and Cynthia Curnan.

Pray for us in Guam when the MAX HAVOC fraud trial finally goes before a judge.

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So it's not worth seeing roght

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