a young couple decides to runaway to sunny california . they never reach their destination a they decide to pull over at the rest stop . after a fight with her boyfriend and nicole carrow insists on pull in to a rest stop . when she be ready to leave and she exit the bathroom to find her boyfriend have disappear with their car and leave her trap on the back road of texas with only an abandon camper van to keep her company . rest stop be one of those cheap and tacky horror movie that could become a cult classic . will rest stop become a cult classic you may ask . well the three element that you need to become a cult classic be gore and sex and artistic merit . rest stop have bucket load of gore and and while i do not want to give too much away and it contain oodles of blood soak nastiness . this movie have everything from the bad guy run over a cop leg with his car several time to him make use of a pneumatic drill on a girl leg . at time and it can be about as bloody a a film can get . it also have a gratuitous and yet somehow quite intimate love scene in the opening minute of the film . therefore and the sex be cover . now the hard one do it have any artistic merit . you never get to see the bad guy face you see glimpse and profile and shadowy silhouette . he be a faceless and relentless and monster and which alone score highly on the artistic merit scale . the movie have very few character in it apart from the main protagonist nicole carrow ( jaimie alexander ) . since she spend a large part of the film on her own and she can not reveal her thought in the course of a conversation and but must speak them aloud so that we and the audience and know what she be think . at time and this can be slightly irritate while however and it be a brave step by the writer ( john shiban ) and it do work for the majority of the film . a an audience know and be completely alone and isolate from civilisation be frighten enough even when you be not be chase by psychotic killer . so and will rest stop become a cult classic . it probably will because along the gore and sex and arguable artistic merit and it also have plenty of chill and an interesting and inventive plot and give rise to a lot of shout at the screen a the main character do plenty of thing you should definitely not do when run from a psychotic killer . ( what fun be horror movie if you can not complain about the stupidity of the victim . ) .