Alone (2020)
Directed by John Hyams
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
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She encounters some trouble with a black truck on the highway (shades of Spielberg's Duel), driving aggressively and seemingly singling her out.
A traumatic loss has set her on this near-deserted, forested highway, her pensiveness shifting to alarm when — shades of Steven Spielberg’s “Duel” (1971) — the driver of a mysterious black S.U.V. orchestrates a series of increasingly petrifying encounters.
Alone sometimes suggests what might happen if someone were to merge the principles of slow cinema with a 1970s drive-in-style thriller like Duel or Vanishing Point.
The film's early section recalls Steven Spielberg's classic Duel as it includes a vehicular cat-and-mouse game between Jessica (a very good Jules Willcox, Netflix's Bloodline ) and the driver of a black Jeep Grand Cherokee who seems to be deliberately messing with her.
It’s set-up is a reminder of Spielberg’s “Duel,” until it takes a different turn.