Johnon Penny's crime thriller in 2006 Zizzks Road bears the name on the road in real life, a small street stretching from the 15th highway halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The film starred Leo Grillo as a grant, an accountant for Nogunik, who enjoys a vacation in Vegas, when she enters fluttering teenager Marisa, played by the then -growing Catherine Jaigl. Marissa hangs out with a lot of jeboxing Eyoi (Tom Sisemor), and Eyoi attacks her and grant as part of anger. In the frakes, Eyoi is knocked out unconscious, and Grant immediately assumes that they were killed. They decide to drive to the road Sezkxix to bury him in the desert. If the films are an indicator, the Mojave desert is full of bodies of people who accidentally killed during Vegas rest.

"Zyzzyx Road" also has a supernatural element. Marissa can actually be a succulent masking. However, this suspicion may be the hallucination that the experiences are given after it is reduced to Nogin. The film is, as it can be intuitive from its premise, an incredibly low budget, made for just $ 1.2 million. It was recorded in just 10 days, and the directors struggled to shoot near the right track. Hagel just broke through the mainstream with "Heating Anatomy" When Penny's film was filmed, and it can be thought that her presence will lead to decent box office accounts.

However, "Zyzzyx Road" became notorious, however, when Fun weekly He wrote about the film in 2007, pointing out that he did so - without exaggeration - only $ 20 during theater work. Not $ 20 million, but $ 20 and zero cents. Six people went to see it, each paying prices of five dollars. Penny ended up returning two of the tickets out of his own pocket, as the artist for make -up of the film, Shila Moore and her friend bought. He wanted to let them go for free. As a result, "Zyzzyx Road" was the lowest big issue of all time.

The EW portrait is extensive and explicit and tells how the film appeared. It seems that Grillo was looking for someone to listen to his terrain for a criminal story set up in the Mythe Desert, and Penny was happy to hear. Penny had earlier wrote some significant horror -like "Kindred", "Returning to the Living Dead 3" and the late thriller William Hurt's "polluted man". The "Zicix Road" was his directorial debut and knew he would be a modest affair.

The shooting was short, but it was not without incident. Sesizema was ordered to buy any drugs at the time at the time and to be bought for possession. Penny knew that the actor faced the law and struggled with addiction but wanted to Give Sisemore a break, recognizing his talent. Fortunately, local authorities allowed him to end up filming his scenes. Also, the alarms were a problem, and Penny had to hire a special snake Vrangler just to keep them away from the set. Hagel, although playing a teenager, was 28 at the time and was reportedly a lot of play. One scene demanded to fall to the ground in the heat of 110 degrees on the rocky ground, full of cactus spines. She did it 10 times and never complained. It and the production team just removed the spines with the tape.

"Zizix Road" opened in a theater, the village of Highland Park in Dallas, Texas. Penny with four walls of the theater (that is: he rented it) for seven days. The Zizix Road was displayed once a day at noon. As mentioned, six people went. Four, minus spikes Moore and her friend, who returned the money.

Maybe I wonder why "Zyzzyx Road" was not premiering in Los Angeles or there was no more fans. It turns out there was a reason that there was a slight release: Penny was trying to avoid paying salaries at the SAG level.

According to EV's article, Penny would have to pay his actors a higher rate if the film never received a theater release. To circumvent the rule, he missed 1,000 US money on four Walldies Small Theater in Texas, just to say that, yes, the "Road Zicix" had the necessary one -week theater theater. The film had to play, even if no one appeared. Six people came, but the film still showed seven times. According to Penny, he was not so concerned about the widespread edition of North America, as he was still negotiating the international distribution of the film. He was able to get over $ 300,000 in European DVD sales and was so deceptive (and so busy) that he was not yet considered appropriate, a North American issue, supported by the studio.

Unfortunately, the fact that "Zyzzyx Road" made only $ 30, was spotted by the Chud.com website, and then subsequently published by Variety. Unfortunately, after gross US $ 30 reported the crafts, the Zizksks Road immediately became notorious. It was the worst possible stamp for a movie that will barely see the light of day as it is. No one wanted to touch a movie that had reputation as the lowest film of all time.

When the "Zyzzyx Road" eventually reached the DVD market in Europe, it finally began to return some of its money. The film was late to DVD in North America in 2010 and was available for digital download in 2012. Given its reputation, it is probably that the Zirchxis Road has at least broken even until now. And even if he lost the $ 1.2 million budget, he still lost less than some of the more infamous bombs in Hollywood. Just Snow White of 2025 may lose hundreds of millions of dollars for Disney.