Line #10 Film/HellsHighway


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3	''Hell's Highway'' is a 2002 American horror film written and directed by Jeff Leroy.
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5	Four college friends take a fateful road trip. They pick up Lucinda: A hot young hitchhiker, full of sexual deviance and lust for the bloody kill. After being terrorized and nearly killed, the group manages to turn the tables. They thought they killed her, but around the next bend--around every bend-- she appears like a mirage ready to murder again. Is she the devil? Can anyone stop her killing spree?
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9	* AlliterativeTitle: '''H'''ell's '''H'''ighway
10	* AnArmAndALeg: Lucinda cuts off Chris's hand with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] and he eventually dies from blood loss.
11	* AutoErotica: Lucinda starts giving Jack a hand job while he is driving, before [[GroinAttack cutting his dick off with a knife]].
12	* BadHabits: A SerialKiller who dresses as a priest picks up HostileHitchhiker Lucinda and takes her into the desert to murder her, in what turns out to be a case of MuggingTheMonster.
13	* BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts: A sexy but homicidal goth chick hitchhiker who keeps coming back after being killed, though the twist ending reveals [[spoiler:she was the subject in a government experiment involving cloning, and escaped with several of her duplicates]].
14	* CarFu: Lucindia catches up with the college students, who run her down; beheading and disemboweling her.
15	* CavalryBetrayal: A group of government agents shows up in the nick of time to save FinalGirl Sarah from Lucinda. However, [[spoiler:he takes her to a military installation, where it is explained that there were four equally delusional Lucindias and that they were the result of cloning and accelerated growth experiments. The staff tells Sarah that she is going to become their new test subject]].
16	* ChainsawGood: When the video ends, Lucinda appears, and attacks and mortally wounds Chris with a chainsaw.
17	* DarknessVonGothickName: Lucinda
18	* DeadManHonking: The video shows Julie trying to start the car when Lucinda appears at the window at shoots her. The video keeps rolling as Julie pitches forward and plants her head on the steering wheel, causing the horn to start blaring.
19	* EverybodyDiesEnding: Assuming that the explosion in the lab killed everyone present, then every character in the film is dead by the end of it.
20	* EveryCarIsAPinto: Jack's car crashes into a gas station and everything immediately explodes.
21	* GasMaskMooks: The government agents who save FinalGirl Sarah from Lucinda are dressed in coveralls and wearing gas masks. Exactly why is unclear, as they knew there was no possibility of a gas attack.
22	* GroinAttack: Lucinda murders Jack by slicing his penis off with a knife as he is driving.
23	* HostileHitchhiker: A sexy homicidal hitchhiker, calling herself Lucinda, commits acts of gory mayhem against unsuspecting people who pick her up off the road to help her out.
24	* MadeOfExplodium: Jack's car crashes into a gas station and everything immediately explodes.
25	* MuggingTheMonster: Lucinda's first victim is a SerialKiller [[BadHabits masquerading as a priest]] who poisons her and takes her into the desert; planning to kill her.
26	* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: The group watches the last few minutes recorded by the camera, which shows Lucinda shooting all of their friends during a botched séance. Lucinda then turns to the camera and tells the story of a settler couple that became trapped in the valley; to try and save his wife (implied to be Lucinda), the husband killed himself so that she could consume his flesh. Her husband's body was not enough to sustain her, and in her last dying hours, the woman cursed God and prayed to the Devil for salvation, and received it in exchange for a steady stream of victims.
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28	* SerialKiller: Lucinda's first victim is a serial killer [[BadHabits masquerading as a priest]] who poisons her and takes her into the desert; planning to kill her. This turns out to be a case of MuggingTheMonster.
29	* ShovelStrike: Lucinda kills the preacher by splitting his head in half with the shovel he used to bury her.
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