Trucks1997 ‧ Horror/Sci-fi ‧ 1h 35m

Trucks
1997 ‧ Horror/Sci-fi ‧ 1h 35m

Plot

Lunar is a small Nevada town populated mostly by rednecks and kept alive by its military base (in proximity to Area 51), and its urban folklore featuring aliens, which has provided local resident Hope with her hiking and tourism business. Ray, the local gas station owner and a former resident of Detroit, Michigan, lives with his brooding teenage son Logan, and frequents a local diner run by George, a retired Korean War veteran and police officer. One hot summer morning, Phil, an aging man who runs a local auto salvage yard, is feeding his dogs when he is killed in an apparent freak accident after a truck with no driver veers into his home, pushing him through the walls and killing him. Hope notices the truck later parked in the middle of the road on her way to the bus depot, but she thinks nothing of it. A transfer truck carrying frozen meats is casually traveling along a country road, but then the vehicle starts swerving erratically. After the driver notices the truck acting strange, the person exits the vehicle and inspects the trailer. Soon after, the truck locks the driver inside its trailer with no means of escape, starts itself up and drives off. Hope picks up a group of assorted tourists that morning: Jack (an obese, aging hippie who believes in UFOs), Thad (a former Gulf War naval officer divorced from his wife), and Abby (Thad's sullen teenage daughter, who is spending the summer with him and hoping to go to Las Vegas). Hope is forced to pull her vehicle over, carrying the tourists, when they come across Phil's truck still blocking the road. As the group exits Hope's car, the frozen meat truck nearly hits them. While Jack remarks that it looks like there's no driver at the wheel, Thad laughs this concept off as silly. A terrified Hope calls Ray on her cell phone, and Ray hurries to go find her. When he arrives, he and the other tourists find Hope cowering next to the discovery of Phil's nude corpse lying on the ground, severely lacerated; this causes Abby to scream. Ray takes the group in his own car back to Lunar. Meanwhile, tourists Brad (a used car salesman) and June (a failed, aging model who married Brad as a teenager) arrive in Lunar and enter George's diner, unaware that they were nearly hit and killed by a large unmanned truck on their way in. Ray's car is hit and nearly destroyed while being rear-ended by a yellow truck with increasing speed, but the group finally makes it to George's diner. At this point, all of the patrons at the diner are noticing bizarre phenomena: a variety of trucks with no driver are circling the lot between the diner, Hope's cabins and the gas station, weird news reports are coming in, all oddly timed between bouts of static, and the anchorwoman on the screen reveals that a large black cloud (also visible from the diner's windows) is a leak from a chemical factory accident somewhere near the military base. While Jack speculates that the trucks are being affected by energy fields caused by aliens, two rednecks in the diner argue, based on the chemical accident, that the survivors in the diner are all being involuntarily included in a government experiment.

Two HAZMAT workers are called in to investigate the black cloud, but one of the HAZMAT suits in their truck inflates with air, then animates inexplicably to pick up an ax and murder both workers, after which the truck joins the others in Lunar. A postal worker drops off some mail at a toy store when an RC Tonka dump truck drives through a window and chases after the postal worker. The toy gradually kills the person by driving aggressively into him multiple times.



   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