Let's be real, the mythos of the American road trip is probably an invention ... Creepy cloaked figures, a nude 8-bit woman built from cinder blocks, a mosaic couch that was originally made ...

That's the conundrum facing the heroine of Desert Road. After crashing her car in a remote desert, no matter what Clare Devoir (Kristine Froseth) does, she ends up back where she started.

The real story begins long before you know it in Desert Road, a very smart, trippy chiller that plays with the conventions of survival horror and takes them in a wholly unexpected and, ultimately ...