Route 666 (2001)

Don't drive onto Route 666! — Don’t drive onto Route 666!

An undead ghoul-ghost wields a sledgehammer!

Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Steven Williams, L.Q. Jones, Dale Midkiff and Mercedes Colon. Written by Scott Fivelson, Thomas Weber and William Wesley, directed by William Wesley.

This one's armed with a jackhammer! — This one’s armed with a jackhammer!

Lou Diamond Phillips and a bunch of other law enforcement types decide to travel down a cursed stretch of road with their government-protected witness… and encounter the zombie-ghosts of four convicts who were murdered years ago whilst on road clean-up detail.

You'd have an expression like this if you found yourself hounded by zombie-ghosts armed with road gang tools! — You’d have an expression like this if you found yourself hounded by zombie-ghosts armed with road gang tools!

The gunplay pyrotechnics aren’t up to scratch in this film, the plot is nothing to shout about, but I did like the supernatural zombie convicts, who have faces that are dry & cracked, covered in tire marks.

These ghouls are armed with suitable road gang weapons: a pickaxe, jackhammer, sledgehammer and a length of chain – and these dudes can attack you whenever you set foot on the asphalt of the haunted road. I like this idea!

These ghost-dudes don't smile much... — These ghost-dudes don’t smile much…

The film does cheat the rules at one point, though, when a road zombie attacks somebody when they aren’t on the road, but I thought the flick was a fun, cheap, cheesy time-waster that’s worth a watch.