Nightmare in the Desert

2024

Thriller

7
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 115 115

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Plot summary

A woman returns home hoping to move on, but finds herself fighting for survival in the desert when someone tries to prevent her boyfriend's surprise proposal, even through murder.

Director

Sam Irvin Photo
Sam Irvin

Top cast

Allen Williamson Photo
Allen Williamson as Burke Elder
Craig Stepp Photo
Craig Stepp as Larry Jones
Sam Irvin Photo
Sam Irvin as Park Ranger Dispatcher
Robert Solomon Photo
Robert Solomon as Hippie Guy
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587.93 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 3 min
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1.07 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 3 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BreckenRoo 3 / 10

Leading Actress Is The Only Saving Grace of This Dreadful Mess

I had dvr'd this back when it aired and finally decided to sit down and watch it. What a mistake that was! The acting - and I use that term loosely - was so bad I thought I was watching a third rate MadTV skit. Particularly awful were the "actress" playing the photographer's assistant and the leading actress's boyfriend, who chewed the scenery with their cartoonish delivery. The only saving grace was the leading actress, Gia DeSauvage who has a true star quality and was the only one giving any sort of credible performance, which is commendable considering the tremendous obstacles she had to work against. The script and plot were laughable. I would say the acting of everyone (except for the lead actress) was community theatre level if I wasn't afraid of every community theater in America suing me for defamation!
Reviewed by hoops-53436 2 / 10

Nightmarish Acting and Writing in the Desert

Wow. Where to start is a challenge. Let's start with acting- the lead actress was well below average- cardboard like- no emotion. The 'park ranger' also was sophomoric. I found myself laughing at everything he said and did. The actors who played Chris and Rachel were better, we felt like the actress who played Rachel should have had the lead role and the actress who played the lead should have had the Rachel role.The writing was sooooo lacking. Let's talk first about the lack of reality in the injury situations. Chris falls 100 feet onto solid rock and miraculously walks away a few minutes later. Guess it was only a flesh wound. Rachel gets shot through the abdomen and after laying- bleeding out- for most of a day, patches herself with a first aid kit and not only walks away but builds a fire and then is able to walk away with Shae as they escape the park ranger. Wow. In the land of make believe I guess anything is possible.Now let's think a minute about Shae's response to her baby daddy being missing in the desert as night approaches. She says they should go to Larry's house to see what ideas he might have. But first, she says, she needs to stop by her house and clean up. So she takes a leisurely shower while the park ranger goes through her underwear. After the shower they go to Larry's house where he grills steaks for all of them (that seems to be the only idea Larry comes up with during the movie.) While having steak and drinking beer, they don't come up with anything in the way of a plan. And Shae would probably have shown more emotion if it were her dog that was lost in the desert.I was tickled as I read the two reviews that gave the movie 10/10 ratings. They sounded too stock and too glowing to have been real. When I looked them up it was the first review either one of them had ever posted on IMDB. It could be coincidence, but methinks I smell a rat.
Reviewed by Stoshie 2 / 10

Mercifully Short

This movie clocks in at just over 1 hour, which is a blessing. I would guess this was a student film if it weren't for the somewhat half-decent production values. The actors seem like beginners from some acting school.

Especially bad are the lead actress and the park ranger. Neither come across as authentic. They are both obviously "Acting!". And awkwardly, at that. I can't remember when I last saw acting this bad. It actually made me feel bad for the actors, since this will be forever in their credits.

The"third reviewer" here who gave this a bad review was right - the 10 star reviews had to come from people involved in the project. No one could possibly find the characters believable. Or the plot, which was predictable. There was no suspense at all. For example when the lead actress looked over the cliff, we all knew what she was going to see. The whole movie was like that.

What is surprising is that the director has some credibility. Why he took this job is a mystery. It must have been for some quick bucks, considering how short the movie is, which means it didn't take long to make.

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