Director: Jason Toler
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Desperate to make ends meet, a woman takes a special shift as a ride share driver and sets out to drive her passengers around, and when one such passenger invites her back to her house finds herself subject to a series of bizarre and brutal series of torture and abuse at her hands.
Review:
For the most part, this was a decent enough indie slasher effort. Most of the film’s positives here come from when this one starts in on the slashing antics that start up once they arrive at the main house. The main point involving how they get together and what brings her to the woman’s house is a fun touch, with the complete coincidence that brings them together while she’s on her rideshare route being a logical enough mistake that it can feasibly happen that they can come together, especially once the arrival back at the house and eventual subterfuge begins. That starts in the series of psychological torture and abuse within he house as she and her butler begin to play a series of unusual and vicious games while they keep her captive, from how they keep her in isolation and how they feed and cloth her to the strange preparations they continually bring up that they feature here, while the frantic escape attempt that turns into a thrilling series of brawls to get away has a lot to like. This all ends up being the film’s positives.
There are some slight drawbacks to this one. The biggest drawback to be had here is the wholly sluggish and stop-start tempo that takes a while before anything happens. The first half has way too much going on involving the different interactions with the other rideshare passengers and the other personalities in her acting career while she’s in the car, before even getting to the specific passenger that starts everything, so that there’s some work to be done here getting to the main part of the story. That leads into a series of interactions and different scenarios where her is kept there, subject to different abuse, and any attempt to get away results in the introduction of another member of the main group being there to disrupt the process, which all becomes repetitive not just through the storyline but also the genre. This is so heavily influenced by one of the most prominent genre titles ever that it comes off like a low-budget ripoff by running through the process so heavily that it can be a big drawback for some, all of which brings this one down overall.
Overview: **.5/5
A generally likable and watchable indie slasher effort, this one comes off rather nicely with more to like here than expected, while only a few slight issues here do keep this one down. Those who are fans of this particular style of indie effort or who are curious about it will have the most to like here, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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