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* DaylightHorror: The entire takes place within a single hot sunny day. That makes it all the more eerie because you can clearly see the truck slowly heading towards Mann, making it feel like an unstoppable beast of doom.
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* DaylightHorror: The entire takes place within a single hot sunny day. That makes it all the more eerie because you can clearly see the truck slowly heading towards Mann, making it feel like an unstoppable beast of doom.
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* BigBadassRig: Spielberg "cast" the nastiest, grungiest looking semi he could find on a TV-movie budget. Then he had it made to look even dirtier and oilier.
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* BigBadassRig: Spielberg "cast" the nastiest, grungiest looking semi he could find (a 1955 Peterbilt) on a TV-movie budget. Then he had it made to look even dirtier and oilier.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Downplayed; the truck is clearly driven by someone and there are few indications offered that anything explicitly supernatural is happening. However, the driver's presence is heavily downplayed and the truck itself is typically framed as the antagonist in and of itself, thus making it easy to read the film as if the truck itself were some kind of supernaturally possessed, sentient and vicious beast in and of itself, with the actual driver just an appendage to the truck's malevolence.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: While Mann runs into other people, most of his conflict with the truck driver is him largely alone in the wilderness with a psychopath out to torture and kill him.
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* ManipulativeBastard: While a complete psychopath, the driver is shown to be very manipulative. Not only goading Mann into specific situations, but tricking a school bus driver into thinking Mann is the mad man.
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* RammingAlwaysWorks:
** As his 'weapon' is a massive big rig, the truck driver's main method of attack is ramming Mann's car with his truck.
** [[spoiler:Mann jumps out of his car and lets in ram into the front of the truck. While it's not enough to meaningfully damage it, the fire and smoke that results blinds the driver and causes him to drive off the cliff to his demise.]]
** As his 'weapon' is a massive big rig, the truck driver's main method of attack is ramming Mann's car with his truck.
** [[spoiler:Mann jumps out of his car and lets in ram into the front of the truck. While it's not enough to meaningfully damage it, the fire and smoke that results blinds the driver and causes him to drive off the cliff to his demise.]]
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: What little details the audience and Mann sees of the killer are so generic (cowboy boots and blue jeans) that every man in the diner fits the description.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Film/RoadGames'' (1981) and (some say) ''Film/JoyRide'' (2001), along with ''Film/{{Breakdown}}'' (1997) and ''Film/PremiumRush'' (2012). ''Film/RoadTrain'' also probably owes a bit of inspiration to this film, albeit with an explicitly supernatural antagonist. Also thought to have inspired the "possessed car" genre of TheSeventies and TheEighties, including works like ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', ''Film/TheCarsThatAteParis'', and ''Film/TheCar''.
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* ActorAllusion: Weaver repeats one of his lines from ''Film/TouchOfEvil'', telling the truck driver in the café that he has "another thing coming." Spielberg lobbied for Dennis Weaver to star in the movie because he admired Weaver's work in that film.
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* DaylightHorror: The film is entirely shot in daylight, but is terrifying at times.
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-->'''David:''' "I don't know, all I did was pass his stupid rig a couple of times, and he goes flying off the deep end... He has to be crazy..."
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Milquetoast businessman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is driving across the UsefulNotes/{{California}} desert in his red [[BoringButPractical Plymouth Valiant]] when he passes a slow-moving semi-truck. Much to his surprise, the truck proceeds to pass him and slow down again. This repeats a number of times, and finally David pulls over into a gas station to get away from the redneck nut.
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Milquetoast businessman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) (Creator/DennisWeaver) is driving across the UsefulNotes/{{California}} desert in his red [[BoringButPractical Plymouth Valiant]] when he passes a slow-moving semi-truck. Much to his surprise, the truck proceeds to pass him and slow down again. This repeats a number of times, and finally David pulls over into a gas station to get away from the redneck nut.
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Removing the Ambiguous Situation trope. It states, "Is the guy that Mann confronted in the diner the murderous truck driver, or not? If not, were any of the guys in the diner the driver? The movie never clears this up." In fact, it's made very clear that the truck driver never left the truck; he was waiting for Mann to come out of the diner the whole time.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Is the guy that Mann confronted in the diner the murderous truck driver, or not? If not, were ''any'' of the guys in the diner the driver? The movie never clears this up.
