Death Valley

Death Valley, released in 1981, is a movie that takes place in a desert scene with the star being a young boy that is traveling with his divorced mother and her boyfriend. During the course of traveling with his mother the young boy stumbles across a gruesome murder, which places their fate at the hands of the two murders for the course of the movie.

The murderers are presented by the director and actors to be typical good boys from a country background with a psychopath twist to their personalities, making them irrational and dangerous for all that are around them. The movie is about the three of them desperately trying to get free from being hunted by the two psychopaths. While trying to escape the murders you also see the relationship between the young boy, the mother, and the mother’s boyfriend.