Bridge to Nowhere

1986 "You Cross the Bridge, You Cross the Devil!"
5.1| 1h26m| en| More Info
Released: 16 May 1986 Released
Producted By: Challenge Film Corporation
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Kids on an outing in the forest come up against a mysterious hermit who lives on the other side of a bridge, and he is definitely not happy to see them.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
851222 Greetings from Lithuania.An independent movie that is actually leaves to Nowhere.I saw it when there was nothing to watch on late TV, so this movie was a little surprise for my. I was already falling asleep, but this movie got my attention somehow. Don't get my wrong, there's absolutely nothing special in this movie, only a beautiful landscape, some nice acting and disturbing killings.I don't recommend this movie because you won't see here nothing special or very interesting. But if you have ABSOLUTELY nothing to do and there is nothing good on TV, watch it.
merklekranz "Bridge to Nowhere" starts out in typical fashion. Five teens head out of their city element for a backwoods quest to find the infamous "bridge to nowhere". What they find in addition to the bridge is Bruno Lawrence and his captive teenage "bride", Alison Rutledge. The first half of the movie is straightforward hormone driven drivel, including a skinny dipping and peeper scene. Once the teen leader is confronted by a now very angry hermit, the film kicks into high gear. Genuine excitement follows as the "invaders" are driven from the hermit's domain. The violence is sudden and unpredictable. If you like hunted in the woods movies, you will enjoy "Bridge to Nowhere" - MERK
Woodyanders A coed contingent of five rowdy street-savvy city kids venture into the remote woods for a weekend of fun and excitement; they get more than they bargained for when they run afoul of a mean, nasty, reclusive, obsessively self-reliant and misanthropic forest-dwelling psycho hermit (a first-rate rip-snorting villainous turn by the always excellent Bruno Lawrence, who confirms his scruffy status as the Down Under equivalent to Warren Oates) who most emphatically doesn't cotton to any meddlesome outsiders trespassing on his fiercely guarded cut off from the rest of civilization secluded sylvan terrain. Naturally, the hapless group must resort to ferocious animalistic tactics to fend off this dangerously antisocial "leave me the hell alone" loony. Tautly directed with considerable muscular élan by Ian Mune (who also co-wrote the lean, tight, compact script with Bill Baer), with breathtakingly lush and expansive outdoor photography by Kevin Hayward and an effectively spare, shuddery, skin-crawling synthesizer score by Stephen McCurdy, "Bridge to Nowhere" sizes up as a tense, edgy and gripping suspense thriller. Although Lawrence clearly dominates the film with his impressively fearsome portrayal of a cunning maniac who's not to be trifled with, the rest of the cast is equally on the money: gorgeous redhead Allison Routledge gives a warm, engaging performance as Lawrence's loyal, loving wife (Lawrence and Routledge previously acted together in the terrific science fiction end-of-the-world pip "The Quiet Earth"), Phillip Gordon is genuinely frightening as a hot-tempered brute, and Matthew Hunter, Margaret Umbers, Shelly Luxford and Stephen Judd are credible and sympathetic as the other scared, vulnerable, totally out of their depth backpackers. An undeservedly forgotten little sleeper that's eminently worthy of rediscovery.
mattkratz This movie might catch your attention in the video store. Being a huge Bruno Lawrence fan, I liked it.Five city kids cross the land of a hermit while on a hiking trip. They muck up his property and sense of tranquility. This irks him, and he turns out to be a very vicious and dangerous person, especially when angry. He then proceeds to follow their every move and make the remainder of their vacation a living nightmare. Sound familiar? A basic plot for a lot of films, but this one was fairly well done. Bruno makes a decent bad guy. The relationship between him and his "girlfriend" and their characterizations could have been done better, but that's overlookable. The main focus is on the story and chases.The photography of the lovely New Zealand countryside in the film is a plus.See this one if you have time to kill.** 1/2 out of ****