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3 | A 2010 supernatural thriller / MindScrew about a group of teenagers menaced by a driverless road train (tractor-trailer with multiple trailers) in the Australian outback. |
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6 | !!This movie provides examples of: |
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8 | * AnimalMotif: Some references to Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hell. |
9 | * AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: While it doesn't drive itself like in ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'' the truck still manages to cause the deaths of three people. |
10 | * BloodMagic: There's never been any gas in that tank. |
11 | * BookEnds: The movie starts off with the protagonists being run off the road by the truck and then driving off in it after hearing gunshots and a screaming person running towards them. At the end of the movie the SoleSurvivor, having shot her friend, tries to warn a couple that had been run off the road by the group to get away from the truck only for the couple to get in it themselves and drive off. |
12 | * CrossingTheDesert: The main reason the teenagers steal the big rig truck. |
13 | * DemonicPossession: The drivers of the truck undergo a transformation into a killer. |
14 | * HauntedTechnology: A possessed truck that can control its driver. |
15 | * HereWeGoAgain: Nina can only watch in horror as a couple gets into the truck and unwittingly dooms themselves to what happened to her and her friends. |
16 | * ThePowerOfBlood: Revealed to be what fuels the truck. |
17 | %%* SealedEvilInACan |
18 | * SentientVehicle: It's obvious something is forcing people to drive and 'feed' the truck. |
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