31:19 #1: Joy Ride

Every October I try to partake in 31 horror entertainments- initially it was just movies, but as the amount of free time I had changed I started to include TV, literature and other stuff. It's probably going to be mostly movies though.

This movie is kind of right on the border between horror and thriller- the premise of teens being pursued by a psychotic truck driver after a prank gone wrong is horror-ish enough, but the way it's approached is more thriller-like: There's no gore or onscreen murders, and we barely get a glimpse at the antagonist, who is largely just a distinctively low voice on a CB radio. It's really all the creepier for keeping it to the viewer's imagination. One thing that struck me is that it has such a timeless, urban legend premise, but the way it's written, acted and scored is very early 2000's... Not that that doesn't have it's own charm.