The kids are forced to flee for their lives, finding an underground bunker to hide in. In a film that fails to answer so many questions. Where this monster came from or how it has remained undiscovered is just another unanswered question. Some sort of monster that drinks the blood of its victims. This is where the real villain of the movie is introduced. On his instructions, the bus continues onwards until it breaks down in a tunnel.
It’s on this shortcut that the group are accosted by an escaped serial killer who threatens them with a gun. The driver is the affable Joseph (Terrence Anderson) and finding a downed tree on the road, he decides to take a shortcut. The first part of the movie introduces these teens, a cookie-cutter group made up of Nolan (Jack Knae), Reggie (Zak Sutcliffe), Bess (Sophie Jane Oliver), Karl (Zander Emlano) and Queenie (Molly Dew). Where are they going? Forget getting that answer! Where are they? Who knows! Why are they on this bus? No explanation. We’re immediately introduced to a bus making its way through the countryside with a handful of teenagers on board. By the end, it’s a movie that you can’t help but hate for how poor it is overall.
It begins in head-scratching fashion and deteriorates in spectacular fashion. Shortcut is an incredibly frustrating watch where one scene moves to another without any real connection between them.
