Trucks (film)

Trucks is a 1997 Canadian and American television horror film directed by Chris Thomson. It is a remake 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
Based onTrucks
by Stephen King
Written byBrian Taggert
Directed byChris Thomson
Starring
Composer(s)Michael Richard Plowman
Country of origin
Original language(s)English
Production
Producer(s)Mark Amin
Jerry Leider
Running time95 minutes
Production company(s)DawnField Entertainment (VHS/DVD)
DistributorTrimark Pictures

Synopsis

In a small Nevada town, the town residents live peacefully. But one day, most trucks mysteriously start to come to life and develop their own minds.

Ray along with his son arrives in Nevada, where they decide to stay in a restaurant. As the trucks start to develop their own minds, a trucker a loses control of his refrigerator truck and decides to get out of it to see why the truck stopped, when he decides to check the trailer he is locked inside by the truck.

Ray meets a Hippie named Jack and a woman named Hope and a man with his daughter, they see an old truck and decide to move it out of the way but the refrigerator truck comes and tries to kill them, but they escape.

The group hides in a restaurant where more trucks come and circle around.

A few plumbers are sent to clean a house but their van comes to life and kills them. Meanwhile, the group has a plan to fuel up the trucks to calm them down, when the night comes they decide to fuel them but Ray, his son, and Hope decide to secretary escape, a cook named George tries to shoot the trucks but is killed when the refrigerator truck runs him over and collides with the restaurant, causing the truck to explode.

A few hours later Ray, his son, and Hope see a helicopter in the distance and decide to get inside but the refrigerator truck tries to kill them again but falls in a lake, and the group manages to successfully get in the helicopter only to realize that the helicopter is driverless.

Cast
  • Timothy Busfield as Ray Porter
  • Brenda Bakke as Hope Gladstone
  • Aidan Devine as Trucker Bob
  • Roman Podhora as Thad Timmy
  • Jay Brazeau as Jack
  • Brendan Fletcher as Logan Porter
  • Amy Stewart as Abby Timmy
  • Victor Cowie as George "Georgie"
  • 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

Production

Principal photography concluded on August 22, 1997. Shooting took place in Gunton and Winnipeg, Manitoba.[2][3]

Reception

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]

In 2019, the film premiered as The Punishment Of Sinners in Mylos Ton Jotikon, a Greek Christmas park. That is the only time that the film was released theatrically.

References
  1. "Trucks (1997)". AllMovie. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
  2. Walker, Morley (August 6, 1997). "Gunton Taking Trucks In Stride". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  3. Hindes, Andrew (1997-08-22). "Trimark ups telepic ante". Variety. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
  4. "Trucks". TV Guide. Retrieved 2016-09-25.
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