California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted. What's more, his wife won't answer his calls. It's as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down, Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty, hostile environment. Alone and without human contact for days on end, he listens continuously to a talk-show on the only local radio station. The host, a man named Eddy, takes calls from listeners who share their thoughts on a child killer at large in the area. At the same time, Sam starts getting psychologically harassed by strange threats he receives on his pager. Gradually, people begin to reappear and attempt to kill him. Sam has become a target and he must now defend himself. Little by little he loses it, caught up in a paranoid identity crisis. Is he truly the killer they're after, or is he being driven ...
加州公路沙漠景色与电音复古配乐很加分，风格与摄影做到了独特精致，偏向于神秘集团之阴谋的故事却仿佛暗含了如天谴降临之天际红光的超自然力量，但细想又好像可看作科幻元素一瞥，总之导演对情节进行模糊化/不确定性处理反倒是渲染了不少可供揣测的神秘感。最后一段集体追杀那场戏惊悚感十足。
铺垫过长，空无一人的小镇，只有男主角一个人不断的打电话敲门，但无人应答。这个时候已经感觉不太对劲，难道映射一个孤独病患者？然后不断有恶意的留言，又是映射网络暴力.......看到最后我没有了耐心......
或许是我智商不行，反正我是没看明白。感觉不像是一部恐怖片，更像是男主的一个梦靥，还有男主也太耐打了，挨了枪子儿和大棒子也都能抗过去，但是其他人好像就有点太不抗打了，男主只要拿起棒子抡一下，他们就失去了还手能力。那个一直出现的红点是做什么的？最后一个光头坐在椅子上扭来扭去很突兀
荒漠风光拍的精细考究，甚至出现了几处航拍镜头，莫非剧组真不差钱？但故事的走向委实让人失望，无人的小镇走灵异方向就是 #铁门#，走科幻方向就是#时间裂缝#，然则编剧脑洞没有那么大，从第一个主角外的人类出场以后，整个片子的氛围就彻底瓦特了，后续虽然套了个舆论引导的隐喻，但到底是没滋没味了
California Mojave Desert 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam a forty-something door-to-door salesman travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients yet everything seems deserted. What's more his wife won't answer his calls. It's as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty...
