CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

davannacarter I was going to give a synopsis of the movie but I couldn't write one without giving away spoilers. So I gave up on that part. I'm just going to write the things I didn't like about this flick: 1. The chick who played Penny Dreadful was annoying beyond belief. Some people were saying she's gorgeous and a great actress. No, no, no, no, no. Don't believe that for a second. Great actress? Her whole job was to pretend to be super terrified throughout the entire movie. How hard is that? Gorgeous? She has a super huge head. Her head is waaaaaay too big for her body. She's like a freaking bobblehead doll.2. Mimi Rogers plays Penny's therapist. Mimi is taking Penny to this secluded place hours from civilization so Penny can get over her fear of cars. Why does it need to be out in the middle of nowhere? Why can't it be at some sort of psychological institute near people? 3. Along the way they hit this creepy hitchhiker and decide to give him a lift. Why? If I had hit the hitchhiker, I wouldn't even bother to get out of my car. I would roll down my window part of the way and ask, "Are you okay?" After the hitcher had said they were okay, I would hit the accelerator and speed off. I don't care if I get a ticket for hit and run, I am not picking up that creep.4. Penny is really aggravating. I was watching this on my laptop and I counted ten times when she annoyed me so much I wanted to throw my laptop out the window. Her therapist must be getting paid thousands of dollars to stay with her at some secluded place for days on end.5. As with most horror movies made within the last 20 years, there are random characters and subplots thrown in that don't enhance the main plot whatsoever. The only reason these characters are thrown in is to increase the body count. And because the director is unable to make an engrossing movie with suspense alone. So he has to resort to the amateurish tactic of increasing the body count in order to distract the audience.The only thing I liked about this movie was the cinematography. Two main things caused me to dislike the movie: Penny aggravated me to no end. And the unnecessary way the director put in extra characters to increase the body count.

Nitzan Havoc Penny Dreadful - another solid proof why you should never, ever ever trust IMDb's rating system. I still haven't figured out how it works, but if this film is rated 5.1 at the moment, then something is definitely messed up. I've barely stopped myself from rating it 10 just to do it justice on behalf of those who did it wrong.Much like the groundbreaking "Saw" and the thriller "Panic Room", Penny Dreadful saved a lot of budget by using an almost single location - and an instant one. In "Saw" it was a deserted public bathroom, and here - a stranded car. How did it work? Beautifully. Not for one second did I get the chance to stop and think "I wish there were some more shooting locations".Let's be fair: the plot is far from original, as we've seen too many films about creepy hitchhikers who turn out to be psycho killers. The ending is as anticlimactic, overused and worn down as they come. But other than that? This film has been spectacular. The exposition and build-up were very original (not a married couple on vacation, not teenagers going to a cabin, but a car-phobic orphan and her therapist!), the acting was profound, and the thrill and anxiety started around 5 minutes into the film and lasted till the final moment.One might think that an entire film portraying a girl locked in a car with a killer tormenting her from the outside would be lacking in content and boring. I might have thought the same before watching this film. Innovative, original and excellently done! Slightly more work on the screenplay could have made it a masterpiece.All in all? One of the best Horror films of 2006, if you haven't watched it yet - stop reading my babble and go watch it!

Robert J. Maxwell Rachel Miner is an adolescent girl suffering from a phobia about riding in cars, following a terrible accident in which her parents were killed. Her therapist is Mimi Rogers. Rogers agrees to drive Miner to a quiet, comfortable retreat in the woods -- taking it step by step. No drugs but breathing into a paper bag, squeezing a palm-size elastic bundle, and controlling her breathing.Man, it's tough on Miner. I felt her pain. I was in an airplane accident and have never flown since then except when drunk. It seemed a misjudgment on Rogers' part to deny Miner those posologically minimal doses of benzodiazepines. Give her the damned pills! Well, full confession. I couldn't watch this all the way through. It was terrible, one of those movies that depends on every iota of bad luck and stupidity in the screenwriter's bag of tricks. I know, Edgar Allen Poe said you should throw logic out the window and go just for the horrific effect. Yes, but he wrote "The Pit and the Pendulum" while these geniuses came up with "Penny Dreadful." Everything seems to take place at night, once the trip gets under way, so we see only what the headlights show us. Rogers grazes some hooded figure standing in the middle of the highway in the middle of nowhere, and -- caring and warm as she is -- offers to drive the silent but unhurt figure to a camp off the main highway. "The camp seems to be closed," she remarks, upon discovering that the camp seems to be closed.The hooded man is outside the car but his attributes are ominous and, finally exercising some common sense, Rogers whips the car around and guns it down the dirt road for the highway. POW. A flat tire. I believe I may have experienced a bout of microsleep here because I seem to remember a second flat tire and Rogers saying, "The spare tire is flat." That doesn't quite fit together, does it? Unless she had two spare tires.At any rate, Rogers instructs the terrified girl to remain in the car while she, Rogers, runs off into the woods in search of a public telephone. You want a desolate wooden shack in the middle of the night-time forest with a phone booth next to it? Voici! Again, there were some periods of confusion, some of which must have been on my end of the channel. I was kind of hoping that Rogers would try to call for help but find that she didn't have the required change in the required denominations, but I seem to recall coins tinkling down into the collection box.Cut back to the car, where Miner is so distraught that she begins hallucinating. We get instantaneous shots of the hooded stranger in the headlights, along with loud, crashing, dissonant stings on the sound track. She's going mad and she's still fighting desperately to keep from swallowing a couple of minor tranquilizers.At that point, something must have snapped. The lights went out in my living room. The hooded menace emerged from the television screen, there were flashes of lightning revealing that the homicidal maniac's features resembled those of my ex wife, mustache and all, a roiling cloud of black smoke, a knife blade with a serrated edge glinted, and -- and -- that's all I remember, your honor. I can't explain the gelatinous substance on the floor.

spiritof67 Just so you know, I hate (1) movies where the white girl being chased falls down while running, (2) movies where the heroine/victim is a whiny, skittish, needy twerp, (3) movies where people do things you know they would NEVER DO, like two women picking up a male hitchhiker at night on a dark road. Just not gonna happen, bro.This movie was a waste of the talents and looks of Mimi Rogers. I liked the fact that some of my favorite B-movie faces (Mickey Jones, Michael Berryman)because at least they got a paycheck out of this waste of time. Other than that, it was a complete and irritating bore, spent mostly listening to Rachel Miner's character whine about something else. Or trying to break a car windshield with an umbrella (!). Jeez! I truly had a few moments when I hoped the protagonist would knock off Penny just to STOP HER WHINING., but then there wouldn't have been much of a movie. Wait, that's wrong: there wasn't much a movie anyway. Give Penny credit for one thing, though: she was stoned most of the movie on prescription pharmaceuticals. Maybe I should have tried that....