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Posted: 10/7/2011
The red band trailer for Blood River. Clark and Summer are happily married. Clark is a no-nonsense, conservative, straight down the line American working a good job in some office somewhere. His beautiful wife Summer is a fun-loving, good time girl grown up who still occasionally dreams of being an actress. Problem is, it hasn t really happened for her and now she s four months pregnant, which makes things even harder. It s the summer of 1969 and out in the desert it s as hot as hell.
We first meet Summer and Clark as they are driving across California on their way to Arizona to tell Summer s parents the good news about the pregnancy. Stopping at a desolate roadside motel for the night, Summer and Clark meet the enigmatic drifter Joseph. A man who seems mysteriously intrigued by Clark.
The following morning, as they drive across the seemingly never ending and desolate desert landscape - they have a blow out. It s a nasty one that sends the car into a massive, near fatal crash. They crawl out of it, hurt but alive, Summer terrified for the well being of her unborn child. Clark realizes that they are likely to die out here. The chance of a passing car out here is minimal at best. The nearest place on the map is the uninviting sounding town of Blood River. A good ten miles away.
After a dangerous and difficult hike across an incredibly hostile landscape they arrive, praying for a phone, medical attention and a long cool drink of water. What they find instead is a Ghost town full of abandoned houses and buildings carpeted in sand. All hope is lost. Panicked and stranded, Summer and Clark desperately try to think of what to do next when they suddenly become aware of a mysterious stranger heading their way. Walking in from out of a mirage created by the sweltering heat they realize that it is Joseph, the drifter from the shit-hole motel. Joseph brings food and water and a bottle of Jack. He s friendly and funny and talks endlessly of freedom for the human spirit. He s a b