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Macho trucker Brewster (Benjamin Lutz) picks up two hitchhikers, Cary
(Windham Beacham) and Vogel (David Alanson) - who he soon finds out are
gay. Now that's a bit of a problem for him, because it goes against
everything he believes him ... but somehow he's also curious. However,
it's an awkward ride, and it gets even more awkward when the three of them
find themselves trapped on a scrapyard somewhere in the middle of nowhere,
with one of the truck's axes broken and no cellphone reception. Oh, but
have I told you about the load the truck is carrying? A coffin,
containing (what else?) a vampire girl (Krystal Main). And this vampire
soon summons a bunch of vampires who might (or might not) be illusions,
and they attack our three heroes - who manage to lock themselves inside
the truck, and it's only thanks to Cary's knowledge of vampirism that they
manage to keep the vampires out ... by glueing pages of the bible on all
of the truck's windows. Now that makes the situation even more awkward
for Brewster, because now he's stuck in th ecar witht he two gay man with
literally nowhere else to go, and soon enough Vogel has seduced him to
some oral sex (on both the giving and receiving side). But that doesn't
solve the real problem at hand, does it?
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Pretty
funny vampire comedy that actually has to say something new about the
tried and true genre, by actually not reducing its plot to the
human-vampire conflict at hand but putting a focus on the interpersonal
conflict of the three human protagonists, also by restricting them to a
confined space for large chunks of the movie, while giving the vampires a
more zombie-like appearance (including some pretty gory scenes). But while
all of this might sound pretty brainheavy in writing, it's comes across as
pretty exhilerating and light-footed on film. Add to this comedy that
finds just the right balance between subtle humour, slapstick and
gross-out jokes - with the welcome absence of fart jokes and gay jokes -,
a very competent cast, fitting locations and a very atmospheric
directorial effort, and you've got yourself a pretty good and (as
mentioned above) pretty funny film ...
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