110 minutes – Comedy
Language: English
Festival release date: September 7, 1991
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Production company: Shadow Shows
Canadian distributor” Cineplex Odeon Films Canada

Set along the legendary road that leads from Thunder Bay in northern Ontario to New Orleans, Louisiana (passing through St. Louis, Memphis, and points in-between) this finely­ tuned road movie stars Don McKellar, who wrote the screenplay, as a barber and frustrated trumpet player who for years has been planning to flee his small town and journey to the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans. Some kid happens to die in his backyard and he gets mixed up with a hard-ass rock & roll roadie (Roadkill co-star Valerie Buhagiar) and before he knows it he’s speeding down the blacktop with a pine coffin strapped to the roof of his Galaxie 500. On their trail is Mr. Skin, an ominous and unnaturally pale figure with a thing for fresh souls. Could it be … Satan? The soundtrack features the Ramones, Tom Jones and The Archies.

Bruce McDonald won Best Director honours at both the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.