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As its title suggests, this gory horror thriller, starring Ashley Bell, is not for the faint-hearted

As its title suggests, this gory horror thriller, starring Ashley Bell, is not for the faint-hearted.

Set in 1978 California, the film sees Bell taken hostage by a pair of blundering bank robbers.

She proves gutsier than the average horror damsel in distress, but still does an awful lot of screaming after her captors unwittingly take her into the desert realm of Pat Healy's sharp-shooting war-vet psycho.

Writer-director Mickey Keating appears to take as much relish as his killer in the gruesome violence, and his tricksy time-frame juggling is more irritating than clever. But he certainly knows how to deliver grindhouse shocks, as well as edge-of-seat suspense.

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