Toad Road
Toad Road

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A portrait of contemporary youth culture, where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred with often frightening results.

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Village Voice - 7/10 by Michael NordineThough far from perfect, Toad Road is also the first unique horror film to come along in years.
The Dissolve - 6/10 by Noel MurrayToad Road is sloppy and under-realized, but it should connect with anyone who’s ever made terrible choices for no good reason.
PopMatters - 6/10 by Bill Gibron...(often)too much about the party and not enough about the paranormal.
Slant Magazine - 6/10 by Chuck BowenWriter-director Jason Banker finds the ironic beauty that arises from his characters' self-contemptuous and misplaced acts of destruction.
Los Angeles Times - 6/10 by Martin TsaiThe home-movie vérité style of the early scenes pays dividends when inexplicable occurrences suddenly take us by surprise.
Variety - 6/10 by Dennis HarveyThough it can be taken at first glance as an archetypal “nothing happening” movie, there’s just enough going on here to suggest repeat viewings might reward curiosity.
Film Thrills - 5/10 by Deirdre CrimminsToad Road is not a success and I must continue to fantasize about how great the film could have been.
New York Times - 5/10 by Jeannette CatsoulisMr. Banker teases us with a dizzy, dislocating shooting style that throws up a succession of eerily arresting images. Even so, his film never overcomes the fact that watching drugged-out wastrels is rarely interesting — unless, of course, you’re one of them.
User Review - 10/10 by Teresa RThere's a tragic irony to the events that take place in the movie Toad Road. Shortly before the film premiered in 2012 one of it's actors died of a drug overdose. Her name was Sara Anne Jones and she played a drug addict named Sara. This film is dedicated to her memory which adds that much more poignancy to the story (and her character). James is the central character of the story. He's somewhere in his late twenties I believe. He's a self-destructive, drugged out of his mind slacker who hangs out with his self-destructive, drugged out of their mind slacker friends. His behavior has put him into therapy due to his father's wishes. Hard to tell if it's helping since he still abuses drugs heavily. His friends are no help in this area since they themselves are either indulging in acid, cough syrup, weed, snorting condoms up their noses or blowing Vicks vapors into each others eyes. It's all for the sake of getting wasted. How Fun! Then there's Sara. She's the type of person you DO NOT want in your drugged out circle of friends. She comes from a good home and good family values, but she herself wants to experience things that go beyond the usual boring normal crap. Through a mutual (and lesbian persuasion) she becomes a sort-of regular to the group. She starts to indulge in light beer and weed. Y'know the basics before heading to the heavy stuff. Then she meets James and becomes smitten by him. I really loved this aspect of the story. If you threw out the horror aspect (which I will get to later) and just focused on these two who are complete opposites it would've been just as interesting. Sara is the novice and James is the teacher. At first, James is immediately apprehensive toward Sara getting involved in any type of psychedelic drugs. She persists just like anyone who wants to indulge in hard drugs would. It's to be part of the crowd. You see your friends having a "good" time and you want to be apart of that. Except what Sara doesn't realize is that drugs are not the answer, but even that makes James look hypocritical which is why he slowly resists the temptation of NOT letting her try it. Because he doesn't want her to leave him. Aside from the drugs, there is also a very sad element to this movie. These people, as addicted as they are, really just want somebody to save them from themselves. They'll even goes as far to believe that drugs are the only way to someone's heart. Hence Sara's. James has been doing this self-destructive stuff for a LONG time. He's getting to the point where he knows this type of behavior can't last forever. Something new has to come to the horizon. Now if only Sara was in some ways helpful in getting James clean then they would've lived happily ever after. Unfortunately, Sara has a very devious and dark influence on what she wants. Experiencing psychedelic drugs is something she wants to experience the most, but she wants to do it while going through the 7 Gates of Hell. Not exactly a literal thing, but it's been told as an urban legend that if you go to York, Pennsylvania (where the movie is set) and head to "TOAD ROAD" you'll find the first gate which will then lead you to six others. Supposedly, an insane asylum is nearby and anyone who goes through each gate will in fact go straight to hell. This is the basis of the film in general. It revolves around this urban legend. Whether it's real or not is a different story. Shot in the style of a documentary, Toad Road is an impressive and disturbing film. It's one of those meta-horror pictures where something is made as a metaphor for the horror that takes place. Like, for example, Bug which starred Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon was a metaphor for drug addiction. Same case here. It's done in a very naturalistic manner which made me wonder if I was really watching a documentary. Overall, if Gus Van Sant and Harmony Korine got together to make a horror movie it might look something like this.
User Review - 10/10 by Amber Shad me reviewing these 'gates of hell.' very creepy film!

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