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20 January 2006
(Season 1, Episode 11)
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In the middle of nowhere, with only a two-lane highway to connect it to anywhere--probably upstate New York--a recently divorced female traveler, who is a passenger on a bus that has broken down, gets caught in a bizarre and violent turf war between serial killers. full summary | add synopsis
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Everyone's a killer, baby!
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(Episode Credited cast)| Fairuza Balk | ... | Stacia | |
| Warren Kole | ... | Walker | |
| Michael Moriarty | ... | Jim Wheeler | |
| Laurene Landon | ... | Birdy | |
| Malcolm Kennard | ... | Danny | |
| Tom Pickett | ... | Bus Driver | |
| Peter Benson | ... | Deuce | |
| Kristie Marsden | ... | Marie | |
| Michael Eklund | ... | Cashier | |
| Paul Anthony | ... | Stoney | |
| Crystal Lowe | ... | Lily | |
| Michael Petroni | ... | Ambulance Attendant | |
| Mar Andersons | ... | Ambulance Driver |
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58 min
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Laurene Landon not only plays a small role in this episode, but also wrote the lyrics to the ending credits theme song.
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Jim Wheeler:
They're not human beings... They're just snakes in the snow...
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References It's Alive (1974/I)
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Larry Cohen has been a 'Master of Horror' especially during the 70's and 80's (with sublime movies on his repertoire like "It's Alive", "God Told Me To" and "Q The Winged Serpent"), but starting from the 1990's, he merely became the writer of popular mainstream thrillers like "Guilty as Sin" and the more recent "Phone Booth". It has actually been a while since Cohen delivered some genuine horror, so I didn't really know what to expect from his contribution to this series. His episode "Pick Me Up" certainly isn't the best entry in the series, but nevertheless a very entertaining little movie with an original plot and a fair share of gore. The plot revolves on a showdown between two sadistic serial killers and the stake is the last remaining passenger of a bus that broke down in the middle of nowhere. The oldest killer (deliciously played by Michael Moriarty) is a trucker whose victims are usually the hitch-hikers he picks up and the other one is a hitch-hiking drifter who kills the people that offer him a ride. A premise like this could have resulted in a very suspenseful cat-and-mouse game, but Larry Cohen and scriptwriter David Schow (creater of "The Crow") preferred to make it a sick black comedy with some grotesque plot twists and insane characters. Typical serial-killer situations and clichés seem to added on purpose and there are loads of subtle references towards classic horror films for the genre-specialist to discover. The deserted two-lane highway running through the backwoods forms a great setting. Sadly, the denouement goes ONE step beyond the acceptable.