June 14: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Free Space! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next.

This movie is certifiably insane.

Zoey (Nicola Seixas) and Frankie (Thomas Emery Dennis) are on the way across the country for art school.. Or a better life. Or something, anything, but mostly making love in the middle of the desert where surely someone is watching. 

On their way, they keep hearing urban legends about Billy Badd (Elvis Restaino, Happy Hell Night, Bloodsport: The Dark Kumite and the production designer of Playboy: Women of Wal-Mart). A waitress at a diner has a tattoo of his name and recoils in horror at the mention of it. A cop turns around and runs the other way rather than face him. And when they meet him, they’ll find out why.

Directed by Alex Downs and written by Mark Hovater, who also played Hollywood, this is the kind of one and done ripoff of The Hitcher by way of Mad Max that I’m absolutely shocked that Vinegar Syndrome has never released.

This also totally flips the gender script as Billy is more interested in assaulting Frankie, which means that Zoey has to mountain climb and ride her way to his hideout, bringing along a face painted vet who has dreamed of killing Billy forever.

Elvis Restaino’s pop culture referencing performance in this movie has to be witnessed to be believed as its so over the top there is no real top to go over anymore. It feels like white trash low end The Night of the Hunter with no children to be corrupted, only teenagers trying to make it in a van.

You can watch this on YouTube.