Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.
Acting
Arch Hall Jr.'s unhinged giggling—genuinely disturbing.
Direction
Landis stretches $33,000 into claustrophobic panic.
Practical Effects
Real junkyard, real heat, real desperation.
Director
James Landis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in six days for $33,000—producer Hall Sr. wrote it overnight when their Western fell through.
Loosely based on Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the teenage spree killers who inspired Badlands and Natural Born Killers.
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