Synopsis

The history of traffic safety educational films and their notoriously lurid content.

Official Review

Highway safety films – the bloodiest, most nauseating of all spectacles thrown upon the virgin student minds of elementary school. Sometimes reenacted, more times than not the real thing, kids everywhere for years were scared straight into sitting still on the bus, and staying under the speed limit in the car – as accidents and the results of highway foolishness were splattered across the projection screen for every stunning, broken piece of skull they were worth. Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films by Bret Wood (Psychopathia Sexualis) is a documentary detailing this very special chapter in our horror annals. …Read More