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Route 6662001

Name: Route 666
Genre: Ghosts & Haunting, Supernatural, Survival
Released: 2001-10-30
Rating: 4.6

“One Way In, No Way Out”

Directed by William Wesley

4.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 4.4TMDB 5.1

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Year

2001

Runtime

86 min

Box Office

Budget

$2,300,000

🏆 1 nomination

The premise

Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.

Horror Vault's take

When federal agents are forced onto a desolate Arizona highway to keep their mob-informant witness alive, they stumble onto a road with a grim and murderous history. Something ancient and vengeful haunts that forgotten stretch of asphalt, and it has no interest in letting travellers pass through unharmed. Caught between relentless hitmen behind them and an unearthly threat ahead, the agents must fight on two fronts with nowhere to run. Route 666 blends action-thriller momentum with supernatural dread, using the wide-open desert as a pressure cooker rather than a safe escape.

Content: Violence, Gunfire And Combat Sequences, Supernatural Creature Violence, Mild Language