car does not start. Lou tries to coax her out of the car, but he ends up getting stabbed in his cheek by Candice. Ryan, thinking that Lou is to blame for the murder, helps Candice start the car. After Ryan fixes the car, Candice drives off while Ryan is still on the hood of the car, instead of driving off with him. Ryan, in retaliation, disables the car by ripping out some wires. In the end, Ryan beats Lou to death with a golf club. He then proceeds to free Candice, and she offers to have sex with him in exchange. Afterward, Candice gouges out Ryan's eyes, and sets him on fire. She finds her husband's body and cuts his leg off, revealing that he had $100,000 hidden in a prosthetic leg. Candice walks off into the distance with the leg, after betraying all those around her. Cast Robyn Cohen as Candice Kenny Johnson as Lou Ryan Fox as Ryan Kayo Zepeda as Manny Richard Halpern as Blackjack Dealer Reception Ryan Brown of The Sun Chronicle wrote "While "Zzyzx" may not be the best thing ever produced or even the most original, it does strive for an experience that is new: tight camera work in the confined space of a recreational vehicle, film hues saturated with reds and greens, and garbled sounds blasted from the speakers to show the effects of a drug trip". Debi Moore of Dread Central commented "Zzyzx is a true rarity in today’s indie scene. There are no zombies (either the fast or the slow variety), no moping vampires, and no gratuitous torture of gorgeous tied-up women. Instead we are treated to a rich character and dialogue driven story where no one is quite what they seem to be and the audience is kept guessing as to what’s really going on right up to the final moments of the film. And it contains one of the most kick-ass opening credit sequences you’re likely to see anywhere. All of this — and more — from a film with an approximate $1 million budget and an only nine-day shooting schedule!" See also Zyzzyx Road, another low-budget film with a similar title, also released in February 2006. Zzyzx, California, location of Zzyzx Road References External links 2006 thriller films 2006 films American independent films Films set in the Las Vegas Valley Films shot in the Mojave Desert 2006