The first movie from director and writer Francis Galluppi who comes right out of the gate with a movie that uses one location — a truck stop where everyone’s waiting for a tanker truck to fill up the gas pumps — and sets the tension on high and just lets everything boil.

The Knife Salesman (Jim Commings) is one of those people that just can’t wait to leave. Charlotte (Jocelin Donahue, The House of the Devil) is the waitress stuck there all day, dropped off by her husband, the sheriff (Michael Abbott Jr.). And then there are the two strangers that blow in full of menace, Travis (Nicholas Logan) and Beau (Richard Brake, the best part of many Rob Zombie movies). They just stole more money than you’d think was possible and are so close, so very close to Mexico.

The radio playing informs everyone that $700,000 was taken from the bank in Buckeye and that listeners should be on the lookout for a green Pinto containing several criminals. This makes Travis and Beau very nervous, as the camera goes to the parking lot, revealing that car as well as the damaged front end the DJ said to take special notice of.

The problem is no one has gas and the refueling truck hasn’t come yet. The pumps are dry. More bad news. The truck has rolled over and isn’t coming today, but no one knows that yet.

So many people come in and out of the diner with various agendas: Deputy Gavin (Connor Paolo). A Native American named Pete (Jon Proudstar). A young couple named Miles (Ryan Masson) and Sybil (Sierra McCormick). Even Barbara Crampton, Alex Essoe and Faizon Love are in this.

It’d be easy to call this a Tarantino-style film. More to the point, it’s a film influenced by the same influences, made by a new filmmaker who is ready to make a statement.

It does — like Tarantino — have a Mexican standoff that — spoiler warning — wipes out most of the cast. The bloodshed isn’t close to being over at that point.

Someone really loved this. Sam Raimi. He approached Galluppi to make one of the new spin-offs. The director told Variety, ““It’s one of the movies that legitimately made me want to make movie. If I’d never seen Evil Dead I don’t think I would have grabbed my friends and went out to the desert and made my first short.”

As for the diner, it’s also been in Identity, Palm Springs, The Forever Purge, and House of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects and so many more movies were shot there. It’s located at the Four Aces Movie Ranch.