When a bus breaks down in a desert road surrounded by woods, the passenger Stacia (Fairuza Balk) decides to walk ahead 20 km to a motel. The travelers Birdy (Laurene Landon) and Danny (Malcolm Kennard) get a lift with the deranged serial-killer truck driver Jim Wheeler (Michael Moriarty) to return to a dinning place and are killed. The paranoid Marie (Kristie Marsden) and her husband stay in the bus with the driver waiting for help. When the sadistic serialkiller hitchhiker Walker (Warren Kole) comes to the bus, he kills the trio. Later in the motel, Stacia is disputed by the two psychopaths.
"Pick Me Up" is a tale of very black humor, where a two-lane road is disputed by serial-killers in a very weird dispute. The movie uses all the clichés of the genre and is funny, and even the names of the two psychopaths (Walker and Wheeler) are hilarious. The surprising conclusion is a big joke and homage to Larry Cohen's "The Ambulance". My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Estrada da Morte" ("Road of Death")
"Pick Me Up" is a tale of very black humor, where a two-lane road is disputed by serial-killers in a very weird dispute. The movie uses all the clichés of the genre and is funny, and even the names of the two psychopaths (Walker and Wheeler) are hilarious. The surprising conclusion is a big joke and homage to Larry Cohen's "The Ambulance". My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Estrada da Morte" ("Road of Death")