Octane

Octane

2003 · 91 min · EN · R · 5.1 (43 votes)
Dir. Marcus Adams · Starring Madeleine Stowe, Norman Reedus, Bijou Phillips, Mischa Barton, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Leo Gregory

Driven by Evil

MysteryThrillerHorror

After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson (Madeleine Stowe) is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat (Mischa Barton), down an ominous highway in the middle of the night. After they pick up a weird teenage hitchhiker (Bijou Phillips), their journey goes awry. Nat decides to give her mom the slip and runs off with the hitchhiker at a rest stop. In a desperate search to find her daughter, Senga learns that Nat has been drawn into an evil cult.

VIBE

A disorienting, dreamlike descent into paranoia and dread. The highway becomes a surreal nightmare where reality warps, and a mother's desperate search unravels into occult terror. It's a chilling, unsettling journey into the unknown.

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