Burying the Hatchet

     This week we close out the October Horror Challenge with three movies featuring derailed travel plans.
     It is Christmas Eve and Frank has decided to take a short cut through remote back roads to his mother-in-law's house. Late at night, in a Jeep Grand Cherokee loaded down with goodies, his wife, son, daughter, and daughter's boyfriend, they have a near miss accident. Soon the group finds themselves being picked off one by one, taken by a large black hearse. Will Frank get his family to safety? Can his wife eat a whole pie in under a minute? Just what movie does his son think he's in? An English-language French production, Dead End.
     Frank and Ethel are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a road trip with their three kids, infant grandchild, two German Shepherds, and whiny son-in-law. They stop for gas while taking in the sights of the New Mexico desert. When the friendly attendant gives them a short cut, they don't suspect for a moment it will actually lead them to his nuclear radiation mutated family of cannibals. When the family suffers devastating loses, the remaining members decide to get back those they can and make a stand in the sunbaked landscape. Director Alexandre Aja's first English-language feature and a remake of Horror Master Wes Craven's film of the same name, The Hills Have Eyes.
     A decade after narrowly surviving a horrifying slaughter in Honey Island Swamp, Andrew Yong has milked the well of his celebrity dry. When his publicist gives him an offer to go back to the swamp for an anniversary interview with a large payday, he reluctantly agrees. Little does he know that others are nearby foolishly playing with forces they can't comprehend. No amount of money is worth trying to survive the resurrection of... Victor Crowley.
All that and Dave gets weird in Italy, Kevin gets a crash course in amphibian biology, and Tyler rises to be supreme commander of a retail resistance. Join us, won't you?
   Episode 332- Burying the Hatchet