Retired detective Whacking big Bob Carter (Ted Levine) bullies his daughter, a supplemental mum, Lynn (Vinessa Shaw) and son in law Doug (Aaron Stanford) to join him and his wife Ethel (Kathleen Quinlan), teen daughter Brenda (Emilie De Ravin) and pubescent son Bobby (Dan Byrd), on a throughway drive from Cleveland to California, via the desert of New Mexico. All aboard Hefty Bob’s luxury trailer and along with their two German shepherds, the extended family takes stunted murder directions from the bluff owner of a irrelevant gas station (Robert Joy), which is a dead end road - exactly. Isolated and intimidated, the family tree thinks the desert is the biggest danger to their health and safety, until the body count begins and the abandoned radiation-knotted freaks of the barren hills demonstrate that they only have eyes appropriate for this fresh prey.
Blake Morrell