
California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted. What's more, his wife won't answer his calls. It's as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down, Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty, hostile environment. Alone and without human contact for days on end, he listens continuously to a ... (Full plot summary below)
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California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted. What's more, his wife won't answer his calls. It's as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down, Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty, hostile environment. Alone and without human contact for days on end, he listens continuously to a talk-show on the only local radio station. The host, a man named Eddy, takes calls from listeners who share their thoughts on a child killer at large in the area. At the same time, Sam starts getting psychologically harassed by strange threats he receives on his pager. Gradually, people begin to reappear and attempt to kill him. Sam has become a target and he must now defend himself. Little by little he loses it, caught up in a paranoid identity crisis. Is he truly the killer they're after, or is he being driven to become so?
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| User ReviewDamian SSam Was Here logra plantiar su concepto de manera correcta pero no logra darle una conclusión real, deducimos mucho pero no captamos suficiente para lograr dar juicio real de este film, no es una mala cinta pero si queda bastante a medias. |
| User ReviewMel GI really wanted to love this. Southern gothic style horror, psychological horror and creepy trailer parks are right up my alley... but this movie did not do it for me. The cinematography is stunning and the acting is solid, the idea must have been good at some point. But holy crap. I was just so bored for most of the movie. A few times it got my creeped-out meter up pretty high, but most of the time it was just doing something that had already been done in some form, except really slowly, with no real point to it. The ending is deeply unsatisfying and makes me even more frustrated. One of the worst parts for me was "Eddy" and his movements at the end. This movie is all aesthetic and very little tangible substance. |
| User ReviewOscar PI really wanted to love this. Southern gothic style horror, psychological horror and creepy trailer parks are right up my alley... but this movie did not do it for me. The cinematography is stunning and the acting is solid, the idea must have been good at some point. But holy crap. I was just so bored for most of the movie. A few times it got my creeped-out meter up pretty high, but most of the time it was just doing something that had already been done in some form, except really slowly, with no real point to it. The ending is deeply unsatisfying and makes me even more frustrated. One of the worst parts for me was "Eddy" and his movements at the end. This movie is all aesthetic and very little tangible substance. |