Paranormal Highway (2017) User Reviews

Paranormal Highway: Ack! SO bad

[Platypuschow · 2/10 · 24 November 2018]

I went into this assuming it was one of those dumb found footage ghostie films with the budget of a Big Mac and the filming quality of a brick. I was sorely mistaken, it's SO much worse.

It tells the story of a debate team riding in a bus to a competition and how they fall foul of a supernatural entity of some sort.

It's found footage alright with all the usual tropes but also falls into several of the moronic pitfalls I've been seeing lately which make no sense. For example a found footage movie is supposed to be raw footage and shouldn't be edited, it certainly shouldn't have a soundtrack and things like premonitions/random cutaways shouldn't be visible at all.

So immediatly this had me annoyed, but that was nothing compared to what else watchers have to look forward to. The acting is amateur hour to cringe inducing extents, the plot is baffling and I can only assume the entire movies budget came from product placement.

I generally dislike these movies but they are works of art compared to this abomination. The cover artwork is the most professional thing about this travesty.

One big nope of a movie with a side order nope and spinkles of nope over it. NOPE!

The Good:

Cover art

The Bad:

Cringe inducing

Dreadful acting

Defies logic in places

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

People in found footage movies are devoid of common sense

Some movie makers like to recruit actors from retail outlets instead of acting schools

I actually found myself missing the old school terrible night vision generic found footage movies that all have exactly the same ghost hunter plot

I applaud anyone who finishes this film.

[shaunackroyd · 1/10 · 30 October 2018]

What can you say about this film. There is so much wrong with it you might as well not bother. Absolutely god awful acting, writing, effects (what little there are) and the list just keeps going. If you value your time, never watch this.

Highway to boredom

[seven-johnson · 1/10 · 18 October 2018]

So, there's ~30 cast and crew, 13 votes and an amazingly generous 6.4 rating at this point. Not the worst film I've ever seen, but it does make it into the top 10 worst.

"Actors" have zero charisma, there's a bunch of them supposed to be playing teens and they do have that awkwardness about them. It's as if an amateur dramatics group have decided the only way they can get people to recognise them is to do a horror - one of the few genres where budget doesn't always matter. Wooden, stale and tiring - not even annoying enough to hope for bloody endings for them.

There's some directing involved, it's quite clumsy, bad editing too.

Very tiresome, forgot I was watching it time to time.

WOW

[royeighmey · 1/10 · 16 June 2020]

Who in there right mind green lights movies like this to be made?! I cannot phathom a studio actually willing to spend money to make something this awful. I watched this movie freely (thank goodness) on Tubi TV, being glad I didn't have to spend a single penny to do it. If you actually paid to see this garbage, get a lawyer and file a lawsuit.

Why

[jordanrobpick · 1/10 · 22 March 2019]

I refuse to believe that this movie is actually real

Don't watch please, it's for your own safety

[kittycatcrafter · 23 February 2020]

This was incredibly bad, so bad I asked myself what did I just watch, it was playing on repeat and the remote was gone, I didn't realize it was on repeat for a long time. It was so bad the acting was horrible, the story was okay but not well executed and dude that man touched the slime or whatever and it put cuts on the back of his hand I really really really wish this didn't exist, I watched it twice, that was 3 hours gone, I hope someone sees this review otherwise i'm wasting my time but please do not watch it PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!

Road to Nap time

[brixtonwa · 1/10 · 27 October 2018]

From start to finish this movie is by far one of the worst times I have ever seen. These people have no acting ability to jumping back-and-forth about stories and camera angles chest is enough to put you to sleep. I know the budget is really low at boy they could've found some people that would've done a better job and this movie not worth the effort or time to watch.

Believe the Bad Reviews

[tmccull52 · 1/10 · 26 September 2020]

All of those 1 and 2 star reviews about this movie? BELIEVE THEM. HEED THEM. This movie really is that bad.

The direction, the plot, the editing, the acting... all are abysmally bad. As is the case with most low-budget horror movies, the are gaping plot holes. The story revolves around a debate team on the way to a national level competition. They're supposed to travel in a Class A RV, but the company that contracted the transportation is run by a shyster, and he shows up in a marginally renovated school bus.

Along the way to the national meet, the group stops to eat. While they're in the restaurant, some invisible entity boards the bus and rifles through everyone's belongings, making a mess. The shyster bus driver blames the character, Carlos, for leaving the door to the bus open, even though the driver was the last one off of the bus.

Everyone else joins in and plays the blame game with Carlos, even though he was with everyone the entire time that they were in the restaurant. He went from table to table annoying all of the others. Everyone saw him in the restaurant. No one saw him leave at any point. He has literally a dozem alibis who can attest to his whereabouts when the bus was vandalized... and everyone blames him anyway.

Perhaps this is due to the fact that Carlos is arguably the most annoying, biggest dork in the history of cinema. Carlos is that little dweeb that thinks that he's endlessly charming and irresistibly cute, but he's an uncharismatic cretin. He's the alternate member of the debate team, and oh yes, he's an amateur ventriloquist... a very, very, very bad ventriloquist.

Then there's the girl who looks to be all of 19 years old, but who somehow did two tours of duty in Iran as a soldier before attending college and joining the debate team. When did she enlist, when she was 12? She was in the Army, and attests to this by cheerfully exclaiming "Semper fi!", which is a Marine Corps credo, not the Army's.

The movie jumps back and forth in flashbacks specific to each character, foreshadowing of things to come. At one point in the movie, the bus driver hits something invisible with the bus, and when he investigates, he finds some sort of slime or ectoplasm all over the front of the bus. He touches it, and cuts himself in the process. That's right, he cuts his hand on slime, and we all know how razor-sharp that slimy goop can be.

Then we have the poor man's Mulder and Scully, local detectives who fear that the government is going to step in and quash the investigation into what happened to the missing people who were on the bus.

As for the trip, it somehow takes two full days to drive from Key West, Florida, to Birmingham, Alabama. Two full days. Recently, I drove from Detroit, Michigan, to Venice, Florida in a little over 19 hours. Not two days, 19 hours.

As this two days tour rolls on, the bus is plagued by increasingly violent attacks. After one such attack, they hear on the bus's CB radio that a nearby RV is under attack by some mysterious entity... and it's all downhill from there. This movie is galactically beyond awful, the true mystery is how it was ever made to begin with.

Wow....just wow

[clarkent6979 · 1/10 · 20 October 2019]

I normally enjoy bad horror movies. I think they are pretty funny but I have got to say this is the worst I one have ever seen. Im sorry to everyone in this "movie" but the acting is atrocious. Don't bother.

A "P" Movie...

[porkchopis2 · 1/10 · 9 February 2019]

As in piss-poor. Bad acting, bad sets, bad story-line, bad everything, AND too bad I subjected myself to watching this thing. Save yourself the bother!

This movie is so lame.

[sparrow123411 · 1/10 · 16 August 2019]

This movie was boring from start to finish the acting was horrible and it left you wondering what did I just watch? I think watching a dog chase it's own tail for an hour and 40 minutes would be much more entertaining.

Move over Manos, there's a new meandering mess of a road trip movie in town...

[greenjeremy-13827 · 10/10 · 19 March 2023]

Do you love "Manos: The Hands of Fate"? Do you find yourself wondering what that movie would be like as a modern day found footage film? Have you ever wanted to see Torgo replaced by an obnoxious drama nerd channeling his worst Wilmer Valderama impersonation... And he's a ventriloquist??? Well, then I have the film for you. Not since the mediocrity of "Red Zone Cuba" or the Canadian thriller "Things" has there been a slow paced horror flick that simmers with such choppy storytelling and bargain basement acting. From awkward dance montages to forgotten lines, this movie was made to riff on! Certified fresh!

Not sure why the extreme low ratings.

[lindasue-50133 · 7/10 · 4 August 2020]

Not sure why the extreme low ratings. No, it "ain't" hired, but it's sufficiently suspenseful to have kept me watching.

I liked the characters. The acting was convincing as a group of college students.

Considering most movies are crap these days and horror movies especially so, I think this one stands up just fine.

Wow! Bad!

[africe · 1/10 · 6 September 2021]

Total crap! Do not waste your time. The acting was so bad it took me a couple days to finish it. I watched it on a bet who could actually finish the film. Please stop making movies this bad.

B movie of all B movies!

[makiyahsdad07 · 2/10 · 28 October 2018]

Wow is all i can say! If u are looking for a decent horror movie, this is NOT it... the acting is just hilarious! If ur looking for a good laugh at the expense of a bad movie then this is definitely a must watch!!!

i wish I could give it a zero

[foadbuzz · 1/10 · 31 May 2023]

It takes 2/3 of the movie to get to something and then you are face with a stupid acting and righting a complete disaster that is no even laughable. The biggest problem, the one that turns Paranormal Highway into a so-so movie into an absolute snore-fest is the pacing of the lacklustre story. It takes an absolute age for anything to happen and by time it does, it's so unsatisfying it all feels pointless.

The cast are poor, a mix of wooden performances and hilarious attempts at adding depth to paper-thin characters. The concept is sound, debate team going to nationals except a few are clearly adults playing teens and the film doesn't even try to hide that.