The Toll (2020) Hey what's up guys.
Today I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "The Toll"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a rideshare driver named Spencer, looking for his next passenger. The
app shows him some options. He skips the smelly men, and chooses to pick up a girl named Cami,
possibly because she smells good. Cami gets inside the car, and inputs the
address of her destination. Spencer comments that her drop-off location is quite far.
A little while into the ride, Cami's mother video-calls her to ask how she's doing.
Through their conversation, it's revealed that Cami lives on the opposite coast,
and she's coming to visit her father. It's also implied that Cami's parents are divorced,
and she isn't really close to her father. After she ends the call, Spencer initiates a
conversation with Cami. She further reveals that her father was supposed to pick her up;
but her flight was delayed due to inclement weather. She also adds that the address Spencer is
taking her to, is her father's ranch in the middle of nowhere. He tries to ask her more questions;
but Cami tells him that she isn't in the mood for a chat, because she's exhausted.
Spencer responds that it's alright, and she settles down for a nap.
Cami wakes up sometime later. The driver informs her they're about 20 mins away from the ranch.
He creepily brings up her profile picture, and comments that she looks great. He even asks if
she's a photographer, and Cami says yes. At this point, Cami begins to feel uncomfortable about
Spencer's interest in her. Worried that the man might crush his hormones on her,
Cami quietly pulls out her taser, and places it on top of her bag just in case.
She looks out the window, and notices that the area they're driving through is unfamiliar to her.
She points this out to Spencer, and he explains that the app is
making him go through that route. After a few minutes of silence, he tells
Cami that she's a great passenger. He adds that he would often get a lot of creepy male passengers,
so he tries to choose someone normal as much as he can. The topic turns to hobbies, and
Spencer shares that he likes to hunt. However, he doesn't use rifles, but a classic bow and arrow.
After this, he even jokes that he likes to hunt people as well, then laughs.
The car turns into a dark road in the middle of the forest. Spencer asks Cami if she's okay,
and she tries not to show him that she's a little scared. Suddenly, Spencer's phone glitches,
and the map he was following, disappears. Then a male figure appears in the middle of the road,
and Spencer stomps on his breaks hard. He gets out of the car to check on the man;
but he discovers that there's no one there. He's visibly shaken when he gets back inside the car.
Cami is also terrified, and urges Spencer to drive away. But when he tries to restart the vehicle,
the engine is dead. Cami is suspicious that he's doing this on purpose; but he denies it, saying
that he can't just break his car like that. Spencer goes outside to check his car's engine
again. It's completely dead. Cami's phone is also dead, and Spencer's charger is no longer working.
He suggests waiting for another vehicle to pass by. but Cami doesn't want to spend
another second with him. She decides that she will try his luck walking down the road.
Spencer gives her a flashlight; and Cami walks away with her suitcase in tow.
She shines her flashlight around, and spots a huge nest hanging from a tree. She turns around,
but discovers that the road she had just come from, suddenly has a roadblock. Written on the
sign is a message daring her to keep going. Cami goes in another direction, but is soon
stopped by another roadblock. This time, the sign is saying that someone can see her.
Meanwhile, Spencer is still sitting in his car passing the time. He smokes a cigarette,
and grumbles at how unlucky he is in picking passengers. The figure appears again in the
reflection of his rearview mirror. This startles Spencer, and he steps out of the car to check. The
figure is gone, but a message is scrawled on the dust of his car window, saying that he should pay
the Toll Man. Spencer is terrified; but he tries to rationalize this as Cami pranking him.
Eventually, the road leads Cami back to Spencer. She is surprised because it appears that she
just went in a circle, when she didn't even take a turn. Cami blames Spencer for taking an unfamiliar
right turn earlier, and she tells him about the weird signs she encountered. Spencer shows her
the message on the window too. Cami goes back inside the car,
while Spencer keeps watching outside. She rifles through the glove compartment,
and sees various photos of her inside. She assumes that he has been stalking her for a long time,
and must be orchestrating this situation to kidnap her. Spencer taps on the window, and tells her
that he'll walk down the road, to see if they did take a wrong turn earlier. Cami tries to act like
everything is fine. When Spencer is some distance away, she unlocks the trunk of the car, and grabs
a crowbar; so she can protect herself. Like Cami, Spencer encounters roadblocks in
the road ahead. But he chooses to ignore the signs, and keep walking. Eventually, he ends up
back on the same road, where Cami in the car is. He tells her that he doesn't feel safe outside,
so he'll wait in the car as well. Spencer reaches inside the glove compartment,
and sees the photos. He accuses Cami of putting the photos there; and in turn, she accuses him
of stalking her. He reminds her that she was the one who put the address in the app;
and she could be the one doing this to him. She then points out that he was the one who took a
different route. When she looks back inside for the pictures, they're no longer there.
In the distance, they hear a woman laugh. The two of them go back inside.
Cami apologizes for accusing Spencer. He tells her that he doesn't do well in social situations; and
people always find him creepy. He also adds that he always thinks his passengers will kill him.
Cami shares that she thinks all rideshare drivers will kill her too. They come to the realization
that there must be someone else, who is doing this to them and trying to get them to kill each other.
Cami mentions that she knows someone who was a victim of a "road trap",
where people put up roadblock signs, and attack other people and rob them. But Cami
reasons that if someone wanted to rob them, they would already have done that earlier.
Suddenly, Cami sees the figure peeking at her, through the misty car window.
This figure is wearing a mask over his head, with a smiley face drawn with blood. Just as fast as
he appeared, the figure disappears. Afterward, a rock comes sailing through the car window,
and breaks the glass. There's a piece of paper tied around it, with a message ordering them
to go to the detour, to pay the Toll Man. Spencer spots a vehicle approaching them in the
rearview mirror. It's a tractor being driven by an old woman. The two tell the woman about their
strange experiences, and ask for her help. The old woman's face goes pale; and she says that
she cannot help them, because they are in the realm of the Toll Man. It turns out, The Toll
Man is the mysterious figure, who's been haunting them all night. The toll man sensed that one or
maybe both of them were supposed to die tonight; so he redirected them to his domain, where he will
exact that death for himself. This death is the only toll that will satisfy him, rather than any
physical cash, or woman's hormones. To prove this, the old woman reaches out her hand, and tells them
that they won't be able to touch her. Even if she calls the police, they will only see an
empty road. The only reason why she can see them, is that the old woman had come face-to-face with
the Toll Man before. Cami desperately asks her to call her father. The old woman agrees to do it as
a favor; but she doesn't think Cami's father will ever see her again. As a bit of parting advice,
the old woman tells the two not to let the Toll Man see them, because once he does,
he will be able to get into their minds. The old woman leaves, and Cami decides that they
should just go to the detour, and confront the people doing this to them. Spencer takes his bow
and arrow. When they reach the detour, an old song begins to play from a gramophone behind them.
An invitation to the wedding of Cami's parents, is propped up on the gramophone.
Spencer and Cami walk deeper into the forest, and follow the trail of rose petals.
A man inside a sack hangs from a tree, and drops to the ground. He calls out for help,
and Cami realizes that it's her father's voice. She peels back the sack, and discovers that it's
really her father. He softly whispers to her to stay away from Spencer, because he's involved
in this scheme. Then her father dies. Cami stands up, and tells Spencer that he killed
her father. Spencer urges her to turn around; so she can see that there's no one there, and what
she saw was an illusion created by the Toll Man. Suddenly, the Toll Man appears behind Spencer.
He's wearing all white, and the smiley face drawn in blood, shines in the flashlight beam.
Spencer shoots an arrow at the Toll Man; but it doesn't hurt him.
Cami and Spencer flee and run deeper into the forest, until they arrive at a clearing with
a wooden cabin. Spencer realizes that this was a cabin he visited when he was a kid,
and the cabin is familiar to Cami too. They both know that the Toll Man wanted them to see this
cabin. they have no choice but to go inside. At first glance, the cabin appears to be
a normal old house, littered with dirty furniture. Outside the window,
a bonfire is roaring. They turn around, and in front of them are several television sets.
A screen flickers on, showing them a blonde woman and dark-haired man, sitting inside the cabin.
They are both wearing plague doctor's masks and white leotards. The blonde woman holds up a sign,
telling Cami not to turn her back on Spencer, because he will kill her.
The video changes, and now it's showing Spencer and Cami via the camera set-up in front of them.
Cami sees onscreen that Spencer is trying to kill her with his bow and arrow. Meanwhile,
Spencer sees that Cami has grabbed a gun, and is pointing it at him. Spencer tells her that
he's not trying to kill her, the Toll Man is just making her think that. The Toll Man specifically
gave her the gun; so she would be spooked enough to shoot him. He argues that they need each other
to survive the night. He successfully convinces Cami to put down the gun.
Spencer recalls what the old woman said about, not letting the Toll Man see them. He comes up with
the idea of going back to the car, and hiding there. However, the masked man and woman from
the video, are now sitting in front of the bonfire, wearing matching tracksuits.
The masked woman removes her mask, and Spencer recognizes her as his mother, who died from an
overdose. It's now Cami's turn to convince Spencer that what he's seeing is not real.
His mother tells him that she wasn't able to tell him what she wanted to say before she died. But
now, he should follow her into the woods, and she will reveal that to him. Despite Cami's protests,
Spencer cannot resist this illusion of his dead mother. He follows her.
Meanwhile, the masked man attacks Cami. She wakes up back in the woods, and she sees a
younger version of her, crying on the bed. The masked man, who was a popular jock during her
high school years, is standing in front of her, and zipping up his pants. It is implied that he
had forced his hormones on Cami. The man leaves, and Cami comforts her younger self. She tells
her that the man will never hurt her again. But her younger self just keeps crying.
Suddenly, the younger Cami disappears. The present Cami is now surrounded by several people: a nurse,
a doctor, a cop, a classmate, and her parents. All of them doubted Cami's story,
when she came forward about being raped by the jock. Their hurtful words all echo in her head,
until they merge into one voice, telling Cami to kill herself.
Cami screams, and the people disappear. She is now in front of an old woman, dying in a hospital bed.
She is Future Cami, showing her how lonely she will be her whole life.
Future Cami tells Cami that she knows how heavy the burden that she has carried her whole life.
She encourages Cami to kill herself, because she will never escape the Toll Man. Instead,
Cami shoots Future Cami with the gun. Spencer finds Cami, and wakes her up. They
walk through the forest, and stumble upon several masked people. They turn to the other direction;
and they encounter a group of masked women in white dresses, holding machetes.
The girls chase Cami and Spencer, until they get inside the car. He grabs the trash bags
he has in his trunk, and instructs Cami to block out the windows; so the Toll Man won't see them.
As they rush to pin the trash bags on the windows, Spencer's mother comes banging on the door.
She hurls insults at him, and tells him that she should have killed him when he was a baby.
Meanwhile, the jock appears again, revealing that Cami became pregnant after he raped her,
and her father tried to get them married, to save the family from embarrassment.
Once they block out all the windows, the illusions disappear. Spencer says that it
must be near sunrise already; and they are close to being free from the Toll Man's clutches.
Spencer's dashcam flickers on. At first, he thinks that maybe his car is working again.
But someone holds up a sign to the dashcam, telling them to check the time.
His phone turns on, and informs them that time has been frozen, and sunrise won't save them.
The sign changes and tells them that for the toll to be satisfied,
one death would be enough. Spencer confesses that it's his fault. Cami comforts him, and
says that she won't let him die for her. Then the sinister twist comes. Spencer's voice turns cold,
as he reveals that he had been imagining raping and killing Cami, when he saw her profile picture
on the rideshare app. It turns out, This was the air of death that the Toll Man sensed,
and thus led to them being trapped in his realm. Apparently, the Toll man wanted to
collect the death toll himself; and he didn't even need to show Spencer many hallucinations
like he did with Cami, because Spencer already wanted to kill her at the beginning.
Cami reaches for Spencer's arrows; but he quickly bashes her head against the window.
She flings open the door, and runs down the road. but Spencer shoots her down
with an arrow. Cami falls to the ground. Spencer assumes that the toll has been paid to
the toll man; so he comes back inside, and tries to start the vehicle. But it still wouldn't start;
so he realizes that Cami must still be alive, and the toll is still not satisfied.
He walks to her, and says that he has killed so many girls before; but the Toll Man doesn't care
as long as one of them dies tonight. When he gets near enough, Cami springs to action, and kills
Spencer with the arrow he shot her with. The Toll Man is finally satisfied. Cami's father
finds her lying half-dead on the road. The old woman had made good on her promise, and called
Cami's father. The movie ends with her father carrying Cami and taking her to the hospital.
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