In my head, I pictured Rusty Nail plowing his way through the stands of a Nascar-esque track while trying to get to our lead characters.

There’s a line in Red 2 with Bruce Willis, “There’s nothing more breath taking than a beautiful woman with a powerful gun.” Well, there’s nothing more breath taking to me than a beautiful woman driving a faster than life race car! The fact that the team was going to a big race in Canada made me believe the movie was going to have a much faster paced, explosive ending than it did. You can’t go wrong with muscle cars or race cars, and it’s even better when they let an attractive woman (Leela Savasta) drive it for a second. This concept delighted me greatly because I love fast cars. The plot of Joy Ride 3 was bound to happen sooner or later, especially in this franchise. Made him look more like a sexually frustrated trucker than a scary truck smashing serial killer. By showing Rusty Nail full bodied and walking around every ten minutes, it really subtracted from his creep factor. Very much like Michael Myers in Halloween, but a lot less iconic, obviously. What was so cool about Joy Ride and parts of Joy Ride 2 was that Rusty Nail was this omniscient force of death that you never see, but you know he’s lurking and waiting to attack. People are well aware that he makes a habit of killing people, and what’s worse is the movie shows him doing so frequently. By the time this movie takes place in 2014, 13 years after the original, Rusty Nail – or more-so his strip of highway – is a bit of an urban legend. I wasn’t thrilled for two reasons: 1) I hate drug addicts and 2) it established Rusty Nail as an actual person, an actual serial killer. Joy Ride 3 starts off with a long-ish opening kill scene featuring two junkies. Jason, “Arrow”), Ben Hollingsworth (“Cult,” “The Tomorrow People”), Gianpaolo Venuta (“Being Human”), Jake Manley (“Hemlock Grove”), Kirsten Prout ( Elektra, Twilight: Eclipse), Leela Savasta ( Black Christmas, “Battlestar Galactica”), James Durham ( The Haunting in Connecticut), Dean Armstrong (“Queer as Folk,” Saw 3D), and Ken Zirzinger as Rusty Nail. Cast members include Jesse Hutch ( Freddy vs. Joy Ride 3: Roadkill is written and directed by Declan O’Brien (obviously).

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