Directors Fidel Ruiz-Healy and Tyler Walker, who wrote this movie with Michael Blake and Conor Murphy, have made some magic in this. Gas station clerk Maya (Skarlett Redd) has pretty much given up once all her friends go off to college. Now she works all night in a Luckee's in a town that's always on fire and going through earthquakes thanks to fracking. At least she gets to make fun of her manager Walt (Jeff Murdoch) and get cheap Lone Star at the end of work.
It'd be, well, kind of a pointless existence if it wasn't for the mind-controlling parasites that the drilling has loosened onto the populace, aliens from inside the crust of our world that have already prepared a sales presentation to show you why you should just give up and give in.
Every moment of this is perfect -- the neon lighting, the "Have a Luckee day" voice that greets every customer and the sleazy cops (Joseph Rene and Lilliana Winkworth) -- but the best part is that the ending feels straight out of Demons.
It'd be, well, kind of a pointless existence if it wasn't for the mind-controlling parasites that the drilling has loosened onto the populace, aliens from inside the crust of our world that have already prepared a sales presentation to show you why you should just give up and give in.
Every moment of this is perfect -- the neon lighting, the "Have a Luckee day" voice that greets every customer and the sleazy cops (Joseph Rene and Lilliana Winkworth) -- but the best part is that the ending feels straight out of Demons.
