A group of teenagers are
returning from a camping trip in a
deserted area as they spot a big truck
that was on their tail that briefly
bumped the back side of their car in
which this enraged them as the head teen
driver named Marcus (Xavier Samuel) wants
to give the truck driver a piece of their
mind but this vehicle drives them off the
road and into a terrible accident leaving
theses kids stranded as well as Marcus
badly injured.
They spot the vehicle parked across from
them and find out that the driver left
their cars in the ignition and take off
with it while the driver was trying to
run back to his vehicle shooting his gun.
Everyone seems to go in a sleeping trance
including Craig (Bob Morley) who is
driving the vehicle while a certain song
is playing and spotting halluications.
After they awake they stop the vehicle
before falling off a cliff but can't
start it again while they find some way
on finding help. They all slowly change
and seem to have an evil behavior towards
one another except for Nina (Sophie Lowe)
who tries to keep it together even if the
reason are on the verge of killing one
another.
The story sounded
like this would be a creepy film as well
as the poster art but yet that did more
of the talking. The beginning seemed lame
with the four character's making out and
fornicating in a tent while camping out
in a deserted area. But then they are on
the road in their car and spot a big
truck on their tail in which this left an
impression that something horrifying was
gonna happen. The truck was pretty big
and briefly rammed it's front end towards
the car as these characters want to get
even with whoever was driving this truck.
I was shaking my head as this was a big
no no to whoever did this and can do more
damage in which that's what just happens
showing nice effects on the car crashing
off the road.
There's some good painful shocking
moments with the head character Marcus
who injured his arm in which was hard to
watch on how mangled his arm looked as
well as imagining the intense pain.
Then they spot the truck just parking
there which seemed to look mysterious and
exciting to find out what will happen
afterwards. The area of the truck looks
deserted which almost leaves a creepy
feel on what could happen later on and
there were supposed to be the odd jumping
moment during this scene which seems to
fail.
Then from a distance the psycho drvier is
charging shooting his gun in which the
characters panick wondering on what to do
but decided to take the truck in which
this keeps you in suspense wondering if
they will drive off in time before he
arrives and they just do.
After all of this the story really falls
flat as they all fall asleep including
the character Craig who's driving the
vehicle as there's hallucinations on
wolves with red eyes appearing which
looked a bit artsy but at the same time
didn't explain itself too well. Then they
wake up and nearly fall off a cliff as
they're all stranded there with them
slowly losing their sanity which went
around in circles.
There's psychological elements involving
Craig when he tries to go on the road to
look for help and is out of water and
urinates in a bottle then is about to
drink it which made me think
"Gross" wondering if he was
that insanely thirsty. Then the psycho
attacks him asking where his truck is and
I thought maybe this will explain as to
what his purpose is behind that truck.
In other areas with the main dude named
Marcus goes to the back of the truck and
goes in to see what is calling to him
making it mysterious wondering what is
behind the madness of this vehicle that
seems to change everyone's personality.
When it is discovered though it was
gruesome looking corpses and other astuff
like that not making any sense at all.
There's a moment when the truck is about
to back up with Marcus pinning Craig to
the ground and the wheel of the truck
moves towards him as this seemed
disturbing wondering if he will be able
to escape from his grasp.
Then when the vehicle is rolling along
going back to the same area another
vehcile is spot driving with this truck
about to wipe that vehicle out trying to
explain as to why it was causing damage
in the beginning of the movie but this
unsolved mystery seems to fall flat
showing very sloppy information on this
whole scenerio. The ending was pretty
depressing too.
Bottom line is the film was overly long
and was a total drag in which the
beginning looked like that it might be
fun to watch for fans who enjoyed flicks
like Joyride or Jeepers
Creepers but yet tries to be
original and is a complete failure with
that even. It was a ghostly tale on a
vehicle with a mind of it's own but the
writing on it's purpose was difficult to
understand. There were some well done
moments here and there but not enough for
the movie to succeed at all. There's
better movies out there than this one.
The acting was at
an even pace in which lead actor Xavier
Samuel (Marcus) seems to show alot
of good characteristics in a nice
versatile fashion by acting someone who
is a serious type showing good
aggressions when necessary as well as
really acting in pain when an incident
happens and losing his mind. He also knew
on how to act like a maniac as well as
having a good evil tempting charm like he
was possessed by the devil. His looks was
a bonus with his masculine features by
really suiting the part. He seems to do well by
acting brutal with his punches against his fellow actor which looked good and strongly done as
well as him speaking nastily towards him.
Sophie Lowe (Nina) wasn't too bad at
all as the girlfriend in the film and
focusing well at what she was doing
trying to stay sane with the madness
going on. She brings out a nice calmness
to her personality as well as showing a
good sensitivity to her role. Plus she
was believeable whenever she got
emotional and crying hysterically. A good brutal
blocking with her trying to lock the onscreen maniac in
the back part of the truck. She
brings out alot into what she did.
Bob Morley (Craig) knew on how to
act as a goofball wanting to have a good
time and acting full of life and then
changing his ways later on acting
obnoxious in which he came across as
intimidating which was very impressive by
doing all of this. She does well screaming
happily while driving the truck. Does a great job losing
his sanity while stumbling on the roadway.He also knew on how to
act demented too. He proved himself to be
a worthy versatile character actor too.
Georgina Haig (Liz) showed alot of
spunk in her role bringing out alot of
great anxiety and aggressions as someone
who seemed believeable to speaking their
mind and not taking crap from anyone. A good aggressive
reaction on her by cursing out her window. A good
freaked out reaction on her shouting towards somebody to stop as this had a nice
high pace to it. She
had a ton of energy into all that she did
in the film. She really took the bull by
it's horns with all that she did and
really studied this character pretty well
too.
A guy's arm is
mangled with his bone showing
Various bloodsheds
People's guts are revealed inside a
machine of a trucks cargo
We hear
some screechy metal sounds the odd time
as well as alot of good echoey piano
playing in the film which seems common
for today's horror films. Plus there's
the odd good heavy drum thumps, hissing
sounds as well as some chanting sounds
too making the moments that was used in
the film seem very twisted. The music was
brought together by Rafael May.
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