Drive Back, the supernatural horror film from Cody Ashford and writer Jon Sarro, captures a horror that's both universal and specific to anyone who's been in or around a relationship that's prone to bouts of bickering: the developing bad atmosphere during a long car journey when one of you has been a bit of an arse.

Pregnant Olivia (Whit Kunshik) and her struggling comic book artist fiancée Reid (Zack Gold) are on their way back from their engagement party, when she decides that she needs to address his flighty attitude and lack of responsibility-taking. He, meanwhile, is in a sulk after an ominous mood from his weird dad, and Olivia clicking that pen isn't helping matters. 

A long drive gets even longer when the pair take a shortcut which puts them on a seemingly never-ending road, persued by terrifying visions, a weird hitch-hiker and a monstrous killer.

It's a single location horror film in that it's set mostly inside one a car on the same road, but Reid and Olivia's journey is an eventful one, enlivened by the various macabre distractions Ashford and Sarro have in store for the couple. Crisp cinematography by Lucas Pitassi is in equal measures lush and deeply imposing, evoking a Wrong Turn film or Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead re-mash.

Featuring solid performances from Gold and Kunschik - whose chemistry carries the film through its quieter moments - and sharp writing, it's a slick, effective version of the roadtrip-gone-wrong horror film.