Desert Fiends

2024

Comedy / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Western

5
IMDb Rating 4.2/10 10 1093 1.1K

hillbilly struggle for survival slasher spoof

Director

Shawn C. Phillips Photo
Shawn C. Phillips

Top cast

Eric Roberts Photo
Eric Roberts as Joey
Shawn C. Phillips Photo
Shawn C. Phillips as Peter
Spencer Breslin Photo
Spencer Breslin as Scott
Tim Spriggs Photo
Tim Spriggs as James McJones
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982.46 MB
1280*582
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 2
1.78 GB
1920*872
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kannibalcorpsegrinder 4 / 10

A massively underwhelming and generally unwatchable slasher

Going out to a special music festival, a group of friends, hoping to celebrate a friend's birthday together, run into a series of other factors that are revealed to be due to the inbred, cannibalistic hillbillies running around killing everyone they come across to repopulate the family.This was an insufferably awful indie slasher without much going for it. In fact, the only really enjoyable factor with this one is the series of strong and generally enjoyable slashing scenes here that provide quite a lot of gore. The attacks here aren't too bad, with the brief stalking and brutal consequences making everything quite fun, with how the creatures come together taking people out in random encounters around the desert. As it grows in intensity throughout the final half, where the mutants run wild against the various participants of the festival, resulting in some graphic setpieces, full of great practical effects, and intriguing enough action to make everything quite enjoyable, it highlights the fun aspects that work throughout here rather nicely. With the great design and intriguing character-work on the mutants themselves, who are somewhat imposing in their true form with their deformed visages and unconventional mutations, this comes off quite well in this one. Beyond that, this was a terrible effort with quite a few major flaws. The randomized storyline is a major issue, featuring multiple storylines that could've worked as a means of keeping the interest going, but are crammed into this for no reason than to give supposed celebrities a chance at screentime, which is itself another big issue. The friends going out to the desert for a birthday party celebration is a decent enough idea, but to mix it in around the sidelines of the company trying to clandestinely destroy a truck abandoned in the area carrying toxic chemicals using woefully inept employees, the woefully lame sidestory about the past-their-prime rock group and manager who want to party with the hip youngsters at the festival, or the conspiracy theorists trying to get in contact with aliens dilutes the focus considerably. It's hard to remain invested in any of these storylines with how random and disorganized they all come across, so it's nearly impossible to remain focused on the movie proper. With the whole thing furthered by the constant interjections and cutaways to different individuals they all encounter along the way, merely for the purpose of getting supposed celebrities on-screen or to highlight someone who obviously paid for a role to be in the film, considering its improvised origins. Since the film makes it so obvious that's the intent by how long it stays on the scene when they have no reason for being in the film. The characters are mostly obnoxious and annoying, and with so many involved in these subplots, it just keeps everything so hard to care about when we're constantly shuttled off to a different set of characters so frequently for brief inserts obligated by their social media payoff to be involved in this. In the end, it just highlights how cheap and flimsy it all is, with a scattershot, jumbled experience that never hides what it really is, which all comes together into being the problematic factors that hold it down.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, and Nudity.
Reviewed by kjsnbc 2 / 10

Basically Zero Value

Hooooly god daaamn this is one of the lowest of the low. Down there with Tommy Wiseau, Killer Nerd and Troma movies level of bad. Not in ANY kind of good way though. Worse than even Pink Flamingos.Tom Arnold and Eric Roberts must have been crying between takes for how far they've fallen. Bai Ling seems to have gone just completely insane at this point. Prolly got $2k each and all the free soup they could eat. The cringe levels are off the charts! Could anyone think a single joke or gag in this is funny?! They should play stuff like this on a loop at GITMO for torture. Anyway, if you attempt a viewing you should spend that time, as I did, questioning your life choices.
Reviewed by IsuruP-2 1 / 10

No horror, no thriller, no mystery ONLY STUPID

Wired background music like 80's movie. Uninteresting annoying dialogs talking about nonsense. Poor acting and wired facial expressions, artificial acting, no natural behavior. No experience in acting. They acting wired. There is no horror or thriller in scenes all are annoying for stupid actions. It's only containing disgusting bloody scenes. Acting wired FUNNY but those make no funny only stupid and annoying. Also it has uninteresting ugly background.
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