***SPOILERS***Very uneven thriller involving L.A teenager Penny Deerborn, Rachel Miner, who together with her therapist and good friend Orianna Volkes, Mimi Rogers, takes a trip into the great outdoors, in Northern California, to overcome her phobia in being scared to death of automobiles. This all stems back some time ago when Penny survived a car crash in which both her parents were killed, when the car exploded, right before her eyes.
Penny seemed to be taking the car ride pretty well until Orianna was distracted for a brief moment, talking to Penny about her use of anti-depression drugs, and hit a person out on the road at night. Being the Good Samaritan that she is Orianna offers the person, who didn't seem to be badly hurt, a ride only to later realize that he, or she, is a bit strange to say the least! That's when he offers Penny what looks like a barbecue rib for a bite to eat. As it later turns out it-the barbecue rib- was the remains of a person that he, the stranger, murdered and dismembered earlier that evening! As we soon find out, with a number of persons in the film getting slashed to death, the stranger is an escapee from a local mental institution for the criminally insane.***SPOILERS*** It's just a darn shame that both Penny and especially Orianna, who being trained in psychology, who should have known better didn't realize what they were dealing with. It would have save them a lot of headaches and in the case of Orianna her life!
Pretty decent horror thriller if you over look the many plot-holes in it "Penny Dreadful" also as in its cast in a cameo appearance as the creepy gas station attendant Michael Barryman of "The Hills have Eyes" fame. Oddly enough Barryman is one of the most sympathetic characters in the entire film. Barryman can't help how he looks, like something out of you worst nightmares, and when he scares the living sh*t out of Penny when he gentlemanly tells her where the washroom is located, at his gas station, you sympathize far more for him, in having his feelings hurt, then with her!
The 16 year-old Rachal Miner is by far the best reason to watch "Penny Dreadful" in how she as Penny Deerborn conveys fear and terror throughout the entire film as she's being stalked by the deranged masked or hooded killer. If anything the fact that Penny is a target of the escaped psycho makes her overcome her fear of cars which now he, in trying to murder Penny, replaced. As for Mimi Rogers as Orianna Volkes she was far more convincing in the movie as a corpse that a living person which she played-in the majority of scenes she was in the movie-to perfection.
Penny seemed to be taking the car ride pretty well until Orianna was distracted for a brief moment, talking to Penny about her use of anti-depression drugs, and hit a person out on the road at night. Being the Good Samaritan that she is Orianna offers the person, who didn't seem to be badly hurt, a ride only to later realize that he, or she, is a bit strange to say the least! That's when he offers Penny what looks like a barbecue rib for a bite to eat. As it later turns out it-the barbecue rib- was the remains of a person that he, the stranger, murdered and dismembered earlier that evening! As we soon find out, with a number of persons in the film getting slashed to death, the stranger is an escapee from a local mental institution for the criminally insane.***SPOILERS*** It's just a darn shame that both Penny and especially Orianna, who being trained in psychology, who should have known better didn't realize what they were dealing with. It would have save them a lot of headaches and in the case of Orianna her life!
Pretty decent horror thriller if you over look the many plot-holes in it "Penny Dreadful" also as in its cast in a cameo appearance as the creepy gas station attendant Michael Barryman of "The Hills have Eyes" fame. Oddly enough Barryman is one of the most sympathetic characters in the entire film. Barryman can't help how he looks, like something out of you worst nightmares, and when he scares the living sh*t out of Penny when he gentlemanly tells her where the washroom is located, at his gas station, you sympathize far more for him, in having his feelings hurt, then with her!
The 16 year-old Rachal Miner is by far the best reason to watch "Penny Dreadful" in how she as Penny Deerborn conveys fear and terror throughout the entire film as she's being stalked by the deranged masked or hooded killer. If anything the fact that Penny is a target of the escaped psycho makes her overcome her fear of cars which now he, in trying to murder Penny, replaced. As for Mimi Rogers as Orianna Volkes she was far more convincing in the movie as a corpse that a living person which she played-in the majority of scenes she was in the movie-to perfection.