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      Zyzzyx Road

      2005 1h 30m Mystery & Thriller List
      Reviews 24% 250+ Ratings Audience Score A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head to the desert to bury the corpse, but it disappears. Read More Read Less

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      JACOB R This is the greatest movie of all time. I love the part where that guy shows up and says "it's morbin time." Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/08/22 Full Review Audience Member Ouch. Lowest box office film yet it's decent. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member About five years ago, Zyzzyx Road was produced in the Mojave Desert on a budget of $2,000,000. The film was open for 6 days in cinemas by the end of which a total of 6 tickets had been sold, equalling the value of $30. Two of these tickets, however, were purchased by crew members in the film, and were fully refunded, bringing the film in to earning roughly negative $1,999,980. Since then the film has virtually hit the black again thanks to DVD sales and so on. The notoriety the film gained due to its incredible box-office bomb helped propel Grey's Anatomy/Knocked Up/27 Dresses star Katherine Heigl to her current fame. Zyzzyx Road, plain and simple, is not good. But I think it's quite sad that there are a sea of films out there that this movie absolutely puts to shame that would've made bucketloads, while Zyzzyx is stuck in MinusMillions. There's really only three actors in the whole piece (plus the token redneck you're contractually obliged to put in a road-trip-based US Horror, nobody really stands out, but this just means there was no monumental fuck ups in the B-Movie casting call, where they hire whatever racial group they're lacking at the time, or maybe a girl who's well endowed between the collarbones and lower sternum, rather than on kids who can actually act. It's quite short, and quite simple, so there's not a whole that can be said about it, but is honestly a good 40 or 50 thousand times better than I thought it would be, going in knowing nothing other than that it was being released by Flashback Entertainment. My ex-girlfriend and I despise Flashback. Too many dodgy, cheap and woeful DVD's like The Raven fucking with out faith in humanity. It's not boring, it's not stupid, and it's not annoying, so good on you Zyzzyx Road, may you sell $2 copies of your DVD from bargain bins in the local IGA for many more years to come. -Gimly Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Not bad actually. If you liked Breakdown with Curt Russell you will enjoy this. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member If I ever cried during this movie, it was because I was force to mace myself as punishment for considering this film. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Grant (Leo Grillo) is an accountant with a bad marriage and a daughter whom he loves. He takes to the road to service his accounts in Las Vegas. While there he meets seductive Marissa (Katherine Heigl). They have a week-long affair which culminates in the arrival of Marissa's ex-boyfriend, Joey (Tom Sizemore). Joey attempts to kill the lovers, but Grant gets the upper hand, Grant and Marissa then drive Joey's body to Zyzzyx Road and Grant buries Joey in the desert there. But in the morning the body is missing and something is trying to kill Grant and Marissa. also stars Rickey Medlocke, Yorlin Madera, Meguire Grillo, Di Koob, Nancy Linari and Michael Lugenbuehl. directed by John Penney. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Only made $30. Rated: B- Jul 17, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head to the desert to bury the corpse, but it disappears.
      Director
      John Penney
      Producer
      Scotty Gelt, Leo Grillo
      Screenwriter
      John Penney
      Production Co
      Zyzzyx LLC
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller
      Original Language
      English
      Rerelease Date (Theaters)
      Feb 24, 2006
      Release Date (DVD)
      Sep 11, 2012
      Runtime
      1h 30m