Overview: A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. But when her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together and a scuffle results in the boyfriend’s death, the lovers put his body in the trunk of a car and head to the eponymous Zyzzyx Road in the desert to bury the corpse, only to discover the body is nowhere to be found.

4K Blu-ray Verdict: Well, sadly, Zyzzyx Road, a thriller from 2006, is better known for being the lowest-grossing film of all time as it only earned a mere $30 in the box office! Nope, that is not a misprint, but the stone cold truth, unfortunately for all involved.

If memory serves me, it played once a day for 6 days, only in one single theater (maybe two), apparently as a strategy to get permission to release it in foreign countries. That did not work, as we now know, but all that said, the story is not an overly bad one, the actors all giving everything they could on screen, but it’s their spoken lines that let them down.

Grant, a philandering accountant, goes to Las Vegas on a business trip and encounters a seductress, Marissa, and her jealous ex-boyfriend Joey. Grant and Marissa incapacitate Joey, believing they have killed him, and decide to bury him along the eponymous Zzyzx Road, a rural road off of Interstate 15 in California’s Mojave Desert.

After digging a grave, they return to find Joey missing from the trunk of Grant’s car. Grant chases Joey through the desert with a shovel, and when he finds him hidden in an abandoned mine, he tells Joey a secret about Marissa.

I won’t go on and reveal more, for that is enough right there to either interest you or not, but it is safe to say that the tale (once the full plot is revealed at that point of the film) plays out the way you expect it to, with not so much of a twist ending, moreover an expected and subpar executed one.

Tom Sizemore plays himself throughout, so to speak, and Katherine Heigl’s acting seems to have nose-dived in the past 15 years, as she doesn’t seem the least bit invested in this script when it comes to her time on screen. As for Leo Grillo, never heard of him, sorry.

Overall, it does have some funny moments, and can be (in pockets) an exciting thriller/mystery tale, and for all those wondering, yes, Zyzzyx Road is the actual name of a notorious road in Las Vegas, but given the film’s weird monetary history going in, and also knowing it cost just 2 million to put together, it makes you wonder just how much of it went into the pockets of the two major leads.

4K ULTRA HD DISC FEATURES:
4K Restoration of the film supervised by Director John Penney and presented in HDR 2160p in its original 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
New Introduction by Director John Penney and Actor Leo Grillo
Commentary Track with Actor / Producer Leo Grillo
Commentary Track with Writer / Director / Producer John Penney
Optional English Subtitles

BLU-RAY DISC FEATURES:
4K Restoration of the film supervised by Director John Penney and presented in 2K 1080p HD in its original 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
New Introduction by Director John Penney and Actor Leo Grillo
Commentary Track with Actor / Producer Leo Grillo
Commentary Track with Writer / Director / Producer John Penney
The Legacy of Zyzzyx Road Featurette
11 Archival Behind the Scenes Featurettes
Archival Interview with Director John Penney
Shooting Location: Then & Now Featurette
Storyboard to Scenes Featurette
Storyboard Slideshow
The Mystery of Zyzzyx Road Music Video
Optional English Subtitles
Trailer

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