Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films with Bret Wood Q&A

<div>A special screening of the 2K restoration with director Bret Wood in attendance.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Critically-acclaimed upon it’s 2003 theatrical release, Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films is a morbidly curious exploration of the shocking driver education films of yesteryear. Produced between 1959 and 1979 in Mansfield, Ohio, films such as Signal 30 encouraged safety by force-feeding high school kids color footage of careless driving’s dark consequences: blood-stained wreckage, injured bodies, fresh corpses. In the 1970s and ‘80s, these traumatic films disappeared from the American classroom and assumed an almost mythical status. Hell’s Highway unearths these artifacts of grim Americana and interviews the filmmakers responsible for this radical educational movement. This remastered edition includes three complete “blood-on-the-highway” films, newly restored from the original 16mm camera elements preserved in the Richard Prelinger Collection at the Library of Congress..</i></div><div><br></div><div><div>"'Hell's Highway' is a hoot!" - The Washington Post</div><div><br></div><div>"A Lynchian view of the nightmarish underbelly of middle America" - Filmmaker Magazine</div></div>DocumentaryPT1H31MNot Rated2026-11-09USen
John P. Butler
Earle Deems
John R. Domer
Bret Wood
Bret Wood
Tommy Gibbons
Felicia Feaster
Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films with Bret Wood Q&A"Hell’s Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films with Bret Wood Q&A"

Showtimes

November 9, 7:00 pm

Plaza Theatre