Honeymooning couple Monica and Mike check into a motel in New Mexico. All seems normal until an ambulance pulls up and abducts Mike. Monica narrowly escapes and, with the help of truck driver Bill, discovers the awful secret of the motel and the ambulance service.
Direction
Erler's clinical German eye on American exploitation.
Production
That ambulance is a character—ominous and wrong.
Director
Rainer Erler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for German TV but shot in New Mexico with an international cast—pure 1970s Euro co-production chaos that accidentally captures American anxieties about healthcare.
Director Rainer Erler was primarily a documentary filmmaker; this was his rare fiction outing, which explains the almost news-footage detachment during the horror sequences.
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