Exhausted Cami orders a ride-share to take her to her father’s country home. She’s just looking for a quiet drive but her driver, Spencer, is awkward and talkative. He makes a wrong turn and the duo end up stalled on a remote road, bathed in darkness. But as uncomfortable as Cami may be with her off-putting driver, things are about to get downright terrifying thanks to something unknown stalking around the two and becoming more and more aggressive. Nope. It ain’t Bigfoot, although I really wish it were… but don’t let that deter you, I say that about everything. An emergency break thanks to some phantom figure standing in the middle of the road is what stalls the two on the secluded stretch of road and when the car dies completely, Cami decides to walk off and look for help. Instead she finds the road closed (which doesn’t make any sense) and some disturbing graffiti on a traffic sign challenging her to keep moving forward and warning that someone is watching her. She runs back to the discomfort of Spencer’s company. Although, back at the car, Spencer has found a disturbing message of his own telling him to pay the toll man. So yeah, all sorts of spooky. Cami gets back but is somehow approaching from the wrong direction. This may be the second worst ride-share occurrence I have ever encountered. More weird shit goes down including a disquieting conversation with a pedestrian who knows what’s going on and the duo begin to realize they are in some uncharted waters… waters that belong to some entity called The Toll Man. It’s a tight thriller with two likable leads anchoring things as stuff gets a little silly while head games are played and the unflattering past is revealed. It ain’t bad but it still feels like someone fell into a shit-ton of money while a sophomore in film school and decided to make a movie… I think that came off meaner than I intended. Let’s see… thanks to the handling of some of the more dramatic elements that sneak in, it carries the vibe of a student film but, like, a really good student film… one that actually lands a satisfying but still predictable ending… a real rarity when it comes to student films.
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