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Rest Stop: Don't Look Back
Rest Stop: Don't Look Back

Rest Stop: Don't Look Back in Bloomington, MN

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John Shiban
wrote and directed the 2006 straight-to-video low-budget slasher film
Rest Stop
(also known as
Rest Stop: Dead Ahead
), while
Shawn Papazian
served as producer. For its 2008 sequel,
Rest Stop: Don't Look Back
,
Shiban
again wrote the script, but he and
Papazian
switched director and producer duties. In both cases, however,
Bear McCreary
, most of whose credits come from cable television (e.g., the 21st century version of
Battlestar Galactica
), provided the music. In his liner notes,
McCreary
helpfully reveals that "The sound I was going for was '
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Trapped in Hell.' I don't know if that's where I ended up," he adds, "but it was my starting point." Well, sort of.
takes the film's Southern rural setting as a guide to coming up with music that often combines elements of classic rock, Southern style, with traditional country. The traditional country often seems to be played on instruments that the country musicians haven't bothered to tune lately, and that's deliberate, giving the music both a raucous and a bizarrely eerie feel appropriate to the theme of horror. The classic rock sections are less suggestive of
than of
the Band
and the
Eric Clapton
of the early '70s, when he was palling around with members of
Delaney & Bonnie
's backup group prior to forming
Derek & the Dominos
. And then there is the song
"Jesus, He Forgives You Too,"
performed by
the Rev. Buford "Buck" Davis & His Minstrel Singers
, a demented country gospel satire. The second half of the soundtrack, from the seventh track,
"Creepy Gas Station,"
to the 14th,
"The Driver Gets Marilyn,"
is more conventional horror movie scoring, full of ominous tones followed by furious action accompaniment. The last six tracks on the album actually are taken from the soundtrack to the first
movie, making this a compendium of the music
has provided so far to what must now be considered a movie series. ~ William Ruhlmann
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