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On a solo one-way road trip to connect with the love of her life, deaf Zoe almost runs over a distressed man when she’s distracted by her phone. Cruising and playing with your cellphone is a horrible idea, but it’s even worse when you already have an issue with hearing, I mean, ya kinda need your eyes focused on the fucking road if you can’t hear any horns blaring or people shouting. Come on, Zoe. Be better. Anyways, when she stops to check on the man she quickly finds out why the Native American dude is so distressed. He’s being terrorized by two vile racist brothers and their crew of equally awful scumbags. After they coldly run down the poor guy’s companion, Zoe jumps out to save the guy but the homicidal pricks slaughter him and quickly turn their sights on Zoe. It’s not long before Zoe’s day becomes unimaginably awful. Tortured, raped and finally left for dead in a shallow desert grave, Zoe is discovered by a shaman and he attempts to use some sort of ancient ritual to heal her but something else tags along and sets up shop inside Zoe. The area of New Mexico is no stranger to horrible things happening to Native Americans and the wandering spirit of a betrayed dead Apache chieftain now has himself a vessel to dish out some well-deserved vengeance. It helps that those horrible assbags that destroyed Zoe have a connection to the past atrocities which make them some prime targets for the now supernaturally-enhanced girl. Her boyfriend looks for her but doesn’t really get anywhere and just kinda eats up screen time but don’t worry, this flick knows what its prime focus is. It’s a revenge flick through and through that luckily doesn’t focus all that much on the rape aspect of the subgenre which I’m thankful for. Disgusting racist-rapists come to brutal ends and I’m all for it. A heavy desaturated look may be aiming to resemble something from the grindhouse but instead it just looks a little cheap, or like a music video from a band that has some money but no idea how to use it. It’s… odd. That’s okay, it may be ugly but the exploitation aspect works just fine especially when every scumbag is giving their all to be as awful as they can be… including my dude Ronnie Gene Blevins. Also gets points for adding a supernatural aspect to things and centering the retribution on a frail-looking girl with a handicap who has no issue ripping out intestines and scalping scuzzballs as she rots away. Amanda Adrienne Smith pulls it off with ease, working as a counterpoint to vicious bastards who ain’t got any redeeming qualities. There’s some solid splatter and only a couple weak-looking special effects (that car flip is pretty hilarious) filling out the runtime. It ain’t perfect but it’s a bit of unexpected fun once all the awfulness comes to a close and makes way for the vengeance.
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