The Fearway Review

The Fearway won’t let weary travellers rest easy.

Directed by Robert Gajic (Lucky), The Fearway is set to arrive on UK digital platforms on 13th February 2023, courtesy of Reel 2 Reel Films.

Starring Simon Phillips (Age of The Living Dead, No Easy Days), Shannon Dalonzo, Justin Gordon, John D Hickman and Jessica Gray The Fearway sees a young couple on romantic road trip in their Kia when they are harrassed by a road hog black Dodge Challenger, the driver of which is a mystery. They pull off the road to seek help at a diner called The Rest Easy, signs saying Last Chance for gas.

Unfortunately they’re not able to rest easy as they don’t get an awful lot of help. Things are a little strange here, and Sarah(Dalonzo) feels uneasy and wants to get back on the road.

When they are on their travels again they are once again chased by this same mysterious car and again pull off the road into the same rest stop. Did they get turned around, the manager tells them they went the wrong way. Sarah and Michael slowly discover that all is not as it seems at The Rest Easy, and maybe this actually is the “Last Chance”

This film is actually quite a surprise. On the face of it (and the poster) you think you’ll be getting a bog standard, low budget ($500,000 estimated) mysterious blacked out car chasing a couple on a desert road affair, so far so Jeepers Creepers. Beneath the surface is actually an interesting little horror about the other side, and how we get there.

The driver of the aforementioned muscle car as a creature isn’t anything spectacular, essentially a beardy dude in a hat with a set of pointy teeth, he’s not given much to do here to be fair. The real worry is the people running the diner, do they know who or what this driver is? What are they hiding? What do they know?

The film comes in at a running time of 1hr 20mins ish, so it gets to the point pretty quick and is all the better for it. It feels like a particularly good episode of The Twilight Zone or a segment of a portmanteau horror from Amicus. Which is no bad thing.

Overall apart from wondering if the family Kia could actually outrun a Dodge Challenger, this film is a really good watch. You may want to give it a couple of watches to really pick at the nuances of the story, see if you can work things out behind it, and maybe if the ending makes more sense with repeated viewing.

The main performances are all good, with an O.K. script that is only slightly clunky in a couple of places and like I say, towards the end a couple of things don’t make that much sense but who cares, by that point you’ve already enjoyed the overall ride on The Fearway.