in 1975 and navajo indian calvin duggai ( sonny landham ) deliberately abandon five men to die in the desert because of an argument involve tribal rivalry and the power of indian witchcraft . four psychiatrist testify that duggai be not capable of distinguish right from wrong and recommend he be institutionalize . year later at the state hospital for the mentally insane and calvin suffers from nam flashback and escape through the air shaft and kill a friendly hunter who pick him up hitchhike . he then decide to get back at the four shrink who help put him away . one by one and he kidnap them and tie them up and throw them into the back of a truck and drive mile out into the middle of the desert and drop them off . there they must face the extreme heat and dehydration and starvation and snake and scorpion and bird and etc and calvin and who be off in the shadow with a high power scope rifle watch their every move and use his power of witchcraft to strike out at them . thankfully and one of the victim ( steve kanaly and from the tv show dallas ) give up head shrink year ago for a job a a park ranger and help everyone survive by dig hole to sleep in and hunt rabbit and use cactus for food and water . he also have to make peace with the jealous husband ( robert chimento ) of his former lover ( karen carlson ) . macon mccalman ( who have a small role in dead and bury ) be the fourth doctor and an overweight and bald and homosexual with a broken leg who react to the stress by become a born again christian . ( not quite as funny a the i be a lesbian but i guess i will stop it line from evil come and evil go and but still . ) though watchable for the most part and it by no mean a great film and the annoy non end will leave a bad taste in your mouth . it be base on the novel fear be a handful of dust by brian garfield .