The film is an efficiently engineered mechanism for creating suspense.
Shuttle
Never ride with a stranger.
2008 · 1h 47m · R
Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Edward Anderson
Overview
When two friends return from a girls weekend vacation in Mexico, they find themselves stranded at the airport. Trying to get home safely, they board an airport shuttle for the short trip. But once their feet cross the threshold of the shuttle, a night that had started like any other turns terrifying, and the ride home becomes a descent into darkness.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
When the payoff finally arrives, it seems tasteless not just because of its topicality, but because the shock feels unearned.
There is no release for the audience, no 'entertainment,' not even much action excitement. Just a remorseless march into the dark.
Shuttle mostly exists, in the words of Alfred Hitchcock, to 'put the audience through it,' but it leaves you in a very different place than where it started and with remarkable economy of effort.
Shuttle is a grim and twisted exercise in high-stress terror that falls just short of the torture-porn subgenre.
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