Joy Ride

After forays into film noir, thrillers, dramas, and even documentaries, director John Dahl tries the teen horror genre on for size. Paul Walker stars as Lewis Thomas, a college freshman embarking on a cross-country road trip during summer break to pick up his girlfriend Venna (Leelee Sobieski). Along for the ride is Lewis' brother Fuller (Steve Zahn), a practical joker who uses the car's CB radio to play a cruel prank on a lonely trucker known only by the handle Rusty Nail. The victim of Fuller's gag turns out to be a psychotic murderer and soon the brothers are being pursued by the relentless stalker, who gets his revenge in gruesome fashion. Joy Ride, which co-stars Matthew Kimbrough, was produced under the working title "Squelch.", Paul Walker and Steve Zahn star in this well-paced thriller as two brothers whose road trip goes terribly awry. When a seemingly harmless prank backfires, the siblings become the prey of a psychotic truck driver on a highway to hell. Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Brian Leckner, Jim Beaver. John Dahl "(Red Rock West") directed.