This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation under direction of Richard Wayman. In the name of promoting safe driving in teenagers, these films became notorious for their gory depiction of accidents to shock their audiences to make their point. The film also covers the role of safety films of this era, their effect on North American teenage culture, the struggle between idealism and lurid exploitation and how they reflected the larger society concerns of the time that adults projected onto their youth.
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003)
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Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films was released in 2003 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 9 reviews, giving Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003) an average rating of 63%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 65%. Professional critics were more impressed with Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 63%, Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2003, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 2003 with similar scores include films like Brother Bear, Tears of the Sun and Shanghai Knights.
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