Penny Dreadful (2006)

Not the most apt title as Penny Dreadful suggests, to me, a swirling mist enclosed Whitechapel in the Victorian age and not, as is the case here, modern day hinterlands of America. Anyhoo, Penny (naturally) is a young girl with a phobia of cars, who is travelling in one with her shrink trying to excise the demons. They knock down a hitch-hiker and end up giving the hitcher a ride to a nearby camp, silly people. Well, inevitably the shrink bites it and Penny knocks herself unconscious and when she wakes up she is back in the car, but the car is jammed between trees and there is no way out for her (a little atristic liscence is required here) and the majority of the film from her on in is set in the car. This is the trick that makes the film interesting and a cut above the rest of these cheap straight to dvd titles. There's some decent suspense and few good efforts at giving the viewer a shock. With a few other characters introduced purely to bump off and add a bit of gore, the film manages to keep your interest going although you pretty much know where it's going. An interesting premise, done quite well but ultimately lets itself down in the predictable ending.