Octane (aka Pulse in the United States) is a 2004 film directed by Marcus Adams and starring Madeline Stowe, Mischa Barton. The story follows Senga Wilson, a recently divorced woman, trying to save her 15-year-old daughter Natasha from a bizarre cult obsessed with blood and cars.
Single mother Senga (Stowe) and her 15-year-old daughter Nat (Barton) are on a six-hour drive home, following a visit to Marek, Nat's father, for her birthday. After the...
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Octane (aka Pulse in the United States) is a 2004 film directed by Marcus Adams and starring Madeline Stowe, Mischa Barton. The story follows Senga Wilson, a recently divorced woman, trying to save her 15-year-old daughter Natasha from a bizarre cult obsessed with blood and cars.
Single mother Senga (Stowe) and her 15-year-old daughter Nat (Barton) are on a six-hour drive home, following a visit to Marek, Nat's father, for her birthday. After the occurrence of several eerie incidents, Senga decides to stop at a highway diner.
There, Nat meets The Backpacker (Bijou Phillips) and offers her a ride. Senga is visibly disturbed by The Backpacker and the strange ambient CD she plays in the car. They drop her at a picnic area and when they return seconds later to return the CD she left in the car, she appears to have disappeared.
Shortly after, Nat convinces her mother to return to the diner, so that she can get her birthday present from Marek. Already stressed from the long drive, Senga is...
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