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Toad Road (2012)

Toad Road poster
Directed by
Jason Banker
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 37 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A college student gets drawn into drug use and becomes fixated on a local legend about a road that supposedly leads to Hell. The story follows her growing obsession and its consequences.

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What happens

Toad Road is a 2012 American independent horror thriller film directed and written by Jason Banker. Toad Road stars Sara Anne Jones, who died of a drug overdose shortly after the film's premiere, as a young college student that is introduced to drugs and becomes obsessed with an urban legend about a road leading to Hell. The film premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival and had a limited release in October 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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