Artsploitation Films has
tabbed Dec. 10 as the DVD debut date for writer/director Jason Banker’s
Fantasia International Film Festival winner, Toad Road.
A showcase theatrical
break is also planned beginning on Oct. 18 to garner media attention and to
raise the already electric buzz levels for this film even higher.
On the surface it appears
that James (James Davidson) is just a slacker and a druggie destined for an
overdose one day or the headliner in one of those bizarre “News of the Weird”
stories — you know, “James, wondering if there was any gasoline left in the
seemingly empty gas can, struck a match and took a look inside.” You can fill in the rest it.
Indeed, James would fit
right in with the crew of Jackass … “Hit me in the head as
hard as you can and let’s see what happens!”
Sure enough, someone will.
But things get weird —
deadly; strangely weird — when Sara (Sara Anne Jones), another member of the
slacker community, recruits him to take their use of drugs to the next level by
mixing in the adventure of exploring the local legend of “Toad Road.”
She’s a sweet, attractive
young woman, who could be doing more with her life, but this is her big plan of
the moment (word is that she actually died of a drug overdose after the film
was completed … but we can’t be sure if that is true, or just hype).
Now the “Toad Road” myth
revolves around an old nut house out in the woods whose gates — seven of them —
are the only thing that remains and word is that as one passes through each of
them strange things will begin to happen.
If you pass through the seventh gate, you’ve actually reached a portal
to hell.
Of course it is all a
bunch of silly nonsense, but when drugs are involved and the participants in
this little trek are both high and bored, anything can happen!
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