Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
  • Video: Black & White / Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 28, 2003
  • Originally Released: 2003
  • Label: Kino Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 256
Wood delights in exposing the rubbernecking roots of these lurid films... Full Review
Flick Filosopher
Nov 12, 2003
An unfunny comedy and somewhat murky exposé.
Village Voice
Jun 24, 2003
...A scholarly documentary....2 FAST celebrates the thrills of recklessness and speed, while HELL'S HIGHWAY examines their grisly consequences....Unnerving...fun...
New York Times
Jun 27, 2003
How effective were the highway safety films in stopping accidents? Opinions differ. How effective is Hell's Highway in curing you of ever wanting to see another one? Completely. Full Review
Film Journal International
Aug 6, 2003
Rating: 3/4 -- Maybe the next best thing to putting 'Deadman's Curve' on the turntable and cranking up the volume. Full Review
Boston Globe
Sep 12, 2003
Rating: 3/5 -- Oddly nostalgic. Full Review
Boxoffice Magazine
Jun 28, 2003
Rating: A -- This not-for-the -squeamish documentary will definitely make you think twice about not buckling up. Full Review
E! Online
Jun 28, 2003

Product Description:

In 1960, accountant Richard Wayman and photographer Phyllis Vaughn started the Cleveland-based Highway Safety Foundation after amassing a sizeable collection of photos taken at auto crash sites and shooting an educational film, SIGNAL 30, which incorporated crash site footage. The Foundation's film production wing, Safety Enterprises, went on to produce a number of now-legendary auto safety films (including WHEELS OF TRAGEDY and MECHANIZED DEATH) incorporating extremely grisly real-life imagery, which were shown to unsuspecting high school students across the United States in the 1960s and 70s. Bret Miller's documentary takes a probing look into the strange story of the people who made these bizarre and haunting films. He includes interviews with genre experts such as educational film archivist Richard Prelinger and Something Weird Video's Mike Vraney, as well as Earle Deems and John Domer--two of the men who worked on these compelling curiosities. While the subject matter is sensationalistic by nature, Miller's approach is reverent, and, though the films have passed on into the land of pop cultural legend, one is never doubtful that those who made the films did so out of a well-intentioned sense of duty and purpose.

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  • Sales Rank: 4,235
  • UPC: 738329031220
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