Not every B-movie getaway thriller has the ambition to aim for something existentialist/absurdist in its plot, so a deep bow and a tip of the hat to filmmaker Isaac H. Eaton — using a story idea of Daniel Devoto — for making the attempt.

“Welcome to Redville” is about a murderous jewelry robbery couple (Jake Manley and Highdee Kuan) who find themselves stuck in a quaint little desert southwest town that’s “not on the map.” They think they’ve made their getaway, but getting away from that getaway could be tricky.

You can see echoes of Ambrose Bierce, or Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” which Rod Serling satirized in “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” on “The Twilight Zone.” But the best analogy is the unfortunate farce “Trapped in Paradise,” a 1994 “Groundhog Day” riff with robbers Nic Cage, Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey stuck in a winter wonderland town they cannot escape.

“Redville” is a deathly-slow, emotionally empty exericise in “Is this Purgatory?” But even though everything existential and cinematic can’t be “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” I hand it to them for trying.

We meet Toni (Kuan) and Leo (Manley) as they’re being chased on a desert highway where the Joshua Trees grow.

The police are reluctant to pull the trigger, even though a flashback shows up the jewelry store robbery that went and awry and ended up with a security guard killed.

The couple — Toni was wounded in the shootout — take a Thelme & Louise gamble in their Dodge Charger, and win. The cops won’t follow and, gut-wounded girlfriend or not, Leo’s relieved to find this “not on the map” village where they can get the car fixed, Toni can recuparate (the wound is forgotten in time for “We got away with it” sex.) and they can lay low.

It’s a squirrely little berg — tumbleweed dirt roads lead in, but the designer downtown (California City, CA) has paved streets, shops and diners and lots of customers — some of them literal clowns. Sheriff Brooks (Chris Elliott) is prone to “You’re not from around here” threats, urging the newcomers to “stay humble” and stay out of trouble. And Sabrina Haskett plays his temptress daughter/bartender/jewelry store clerk who pretty much ensures that Leo, at least, follows neither piece of advice.

Radio personality and sometime actor Phil Hendrie plays the local jeweler with a tempting treasure on hand and a temptress (Haskett’s Lili) on staff to see that the visiting bad guys try and take the bait.

Kuan’s Toni resigns herself to what she thinks might be going on. Manley overacts-the-heck out of Leo as he rages — and raids the gunshop/Army Navy store — against whoever or whatever is holding him back.

Scene after scene lacks pop or urgency, and goes on past any expected payoff.

It’s a film of digitally-added gunshots, digitally-generated fire and digitally-composited steam coming out of the Charger’s radiator, something Dodge usually arranges for you.

The acting is uneven, the dialogue never quotable and the surprises unsurprising on most every level.

But at least they tried something outside of the ordinary in their otherwise instantly-forgotten thriller.

Rating: unrated, violence, profanity

Cast: Jake Manley, Highdee Kuan, Sabrina Haskett, Hendrie and Chris Elliott.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Isaac H. Eaton. A Gravitas Ventures release.

Running time: 1:28