Curve

A soon-to-be bride on her way to a wedding rehearsal is having second thoughts and decides to take a detour. Car breaks down on a curve and a hitchhiker offers help. Could it be fate?

Introduction

From the producers of “Insidious” and “The Purge”, this horror/thriller perfectly displays what happens when you let in a hitchhiker with bad intentions and you yourself have no survival skills/knowledge whatsoever. Directed by Iain Softley.

The story of Curve revolves around a soon-to-be bride, Mallory (played by Julianne Hough), has second thoughts about her upcoming wedding and takes a detour. Her truck breaks down on a desolate road, and a charming but manipulative hitchhiker, Christian (played by Teddy Sears), offers help. After a disturbing ride, Mallory realizes Christian is a psychopath and deliberately steers the truck off the road, resulting in her being trapped in the overturned vehicle while Christian leaves her to face her worst nightmare. 

The situation and everything else was set-up perfectly for the scenario to happen, and yes, it can happen in real life, that’s what makes this film horrifyingly scary.

Characters

Julianne Hough proves to us that she can indeed do everything and was not just limited to the dance floor, I wasn’t even aware who she really was until the credits rolled and thought her name seemed familiar.

Teddy Sears (Christian) played his role perfectly as the good Samaritan hitchhiker, his innocent demeanor from the moment they met until the crash was creepy; but his expression changed with the bear trap, made him look like a normal human being and his character just fell off from there.

Not very realistic

In terms of it happening in real life. Yes, it can happen, but very avoidable. Unfortunately, the direction wanted things to go bad, hence Hough making stupid decision after stupid decision.

What I didn’t like

• There were some parts though that were sort of dragging, but I did get the reasoning behind it, like the rat and the urine part, it was essential in showing it, but was poorly executed in my opinion.
• The ending was very predictable. Right off the bat, when you have a female protagonist and a charming hitchhiker, we already know what’s going to happen. And I doubt that they’d let Julianne Hough d1e.

Conclusion

Curve is a nice horror/thriller to watch with a friend or something to have in the background while doing some chores. Everything was predictable and somewhat silly at times. Nothing notable, pretty basic horror/thriller. I had more fun watching Locked (2025).