Toad Road

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Toad Road

2013

1h 16m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Sara talks James into taking her to Toad Road, a place that is rumored to be a doorway to the Seven Gates of Hell.

Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Mr. Banker teases us with a dizzy, dislocating shooting style that throws up a succession of eerily arresting images. Even so, his film never overcomes the fact that watching drugged-out wastrels is rarely interesting ...

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 24, 2013

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Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine

Director Jason banker finds the ironic beauty that arises from his characters' self-contemptuous and misplaced acts of destruction.

Rated: 2.5/4

Oct 21, 2013

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Martin Tsai

Los Angeles Times

Think of it as the CliffsNotes version of Dante Alighieri's "Inferno."

Oct 17, 2013

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Unfocused, it can only ever hint at the chills it wishes to evoke, its lack of characterization meaning we never quite care who these people are or why they're acting so irresponsibly.

Rated: 2/5

Nov 12, 2020

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C.J. Prince

Way Too Indie

What starts out as an utterly strange horror film turns into a brutally raw and unflinching look at aimless youth.

Jun 22, 2019

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Deirdre Crimmins

Film Thrills

Toad Road is not a success and I must continue to fantasize about how great the film could have been.

Aug 21, 2018

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Eve

Toad road? More like chode road. Was expecting to see a paranormal thriller with my siblings but saw some dudes junk.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/09/25

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Tyler B

The screenshots that total six seconds are the only thing of value throughout the whole running time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/13/25

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Audience Member

Pointless. This movie is short in actual duration, but felt like a 3 hour film. The only scary part of this "horror" film is simply that people this idiotic actually exist.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

had me reviewing these 'gates of hell.' very creepy film!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

In the vein of Larry Clark, this film chronicles a group of 20 somethings who indulge in many drugs, trying everything to get that ultimate high but where this differs from Clark's debauchery is that there is an urban legend that one girl, Sara, wants to debunk, Toad Road, a spot deep in the forest that is the home to the Seven Gates of Hell. She talks James into joining her, as he is about to try and leave the lifestyle. He awakes to find she is missing, no memory of what happened the night before. The police and their friends want to know what has happened to Sara but he has no answers except to tell them all what Sara was seeking. This film is so-so, a lot of talking, drug taking and casual sex. No horror per say but a sense of slight dread. It is well made and the 'actors' do their best with what they have in front of them. The director might do better with a bit of a budget so I'm not writing him off just yet. Interesting for sure.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

This is horror? really? Not the slightest bit scary. Just a bunch of druggies bumming around.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Synopsis

Sara talks James into taking her to Toad Road, a place that is rumored to be a doorway to the Seven Gates of Hell.

Director: Jason Banker
Producer: Jason Banker, Elizabeth Levine, Adrian Salpeter
Screenwriter: Jason Banker
Distributor: Artsploitation Films
Production Co: SpectreVision, Random Bench Productions
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 18, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2016
Runtime: 1h 16m

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