Trucks (film)
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Genre | Horror |
Based on | "Trucks" by Stephen King |
Written by | Brian Taggert |
Directed by | Chris Thomson |
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Music by | Michael Richard Plowman |
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Original language | English |
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Cinematography | Rob Draper |
Editor | Lara Mazur |
Running time | 95 minutes |
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Network | USA Network |
Release | October 29, 1997 |
Trucks is a 1997 Canadian-American television horror film directed by Chris Thomson, which follows the story of a group of tourists and locals attacked by autonomous trucks and other inexplicable phenomena in a rural town. It is based on Stephen King's short story "Trucks", which also served as the source material for the earlier film Maximum Overdrive, the only film directed by King. Trucks aired on the USA Network on October 29, 1997.
Plot
Lunar is a small
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George reveals that he has a firearm on the diner's premises, but he tells Hope that Ray detests guns due to a drive-by gang shooting in Detroit that killed his wife. As the group is split up between the cabins and the diner, Logan and Abby find themselves becoming friends as they are trapped with Brad and June. Brad attempts to repair a seemingly dead truck in the garage adjacent to the cabins, but the truck animates and drives forward into his stomach, crushing the man up against the door until he is killed. This causes Abby to break down sobbing, while June has a nervous breakdown and is rescued by Ray, who brings her back to the diner. Abby and Logan attempt to cross over from the cabins back to the diner, but become trapped in a drain pipe beneath the lot as a truck attempts to dump silt over them and asphyxiate the teens. As this is happening, the two rednecks beat Thad unconscious, only for one to be knocked out by Jack while the second redneck runs outside. Despite the distraction, Ray is able to get Logan and Abby safely out of the drainpipe, but he is unable to rescue the redneck, who is relentlessly chased by the trucks and is forced to flee into the nearest building, where he proceeds to get drunk on the cheap beer left in the refrigerator there. He uses the remaining beers to create a bundle of
Cast
- Timothy Busfield as Ray Porter
- Brenda Bakke as Hope Gladstone
- Brendan Fletcher as Logan Porter
- Roman Podhora as Thad Timmy
- Jay Brazeau as Jack
- Amy Stewart as Abby Timmy
- Victor Cowie as George "Georgie"
- Aidan Devine as Trucker Bob
- Sharon Bajer as June Yeager
- Jonathan Barrett as Brad Yeager
- Rick Skene as Trucker Pete
- Don Granberry as Sheriff
- Kirk Harper as Lino
- Harry Nelken as Phil
Trucks used in the film
- Western Star 4964
- Grumman-Olson Kurbmaster
- Ford F-Series
- Chevrolet Task-Force Apache
- GMC New Design
- Ford Econoline
- GMC C6500
Production
Principal photography concluded on August 22, 1997. Shooting took place in
Reception
Trucks received very little critical attention outside of independent internet blogs. TV Guide rated Trucks 2/4 stars and wrote, "The film is all premise and no plot, a problem made worse by the clumsy addition of extraneous gory sequences."[4] Rob Dean of Daily Grindhouse commended the film's various actors, but gave an unfavourable review overall, stating, "Trucks doesn’t realize that it is a movie couched in real fears but would be better explored through a lot of vehicular action and exaggerated gruesomeness and insanity. It’s far too subdued, and not nearly loony enough. The constant attempt to ground the story in a “logical” explanation - mostly delivered by a TV set that shouldn’t work but does, and only gets the exposition channel - undercuts the fact that this could just be a goofy thing with some menace that people would overanalyze on the Internet 20 years later." Dean compared the film unfavourably to the cult horror film Rubber.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Trucks (1997)". AllMovie. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ Walker, Morley (August 6, 1997). "Gunton Taking Trucks In Stride". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- ^ Hindes, Andrew (1997-08-22). "Trimark ups telepic ante". Variety. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ "Trucks". TV Guide. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
- ^ Dean, Rob. "[KING OF ALL MEDIA] TRUCKS (1997)". dailygrindhouse.com. Daily Grindhouse. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
External links
- Trucks at IMDb
- Trucks at Rotten Tomatoes