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"Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. [1] The basic premise of "Trucks" was the basis for the film Maximum Overdrive .
[4] Rob Dean of Daily Grindhouse commended the film's various actors, but gave an unfavourable review overall, stating, "Trucks doesn’t realize that it is a movie couched in real fears but would be better explored through a lot of vehicular action and exaggerated gruesomeness and insanity. It’s far too subdued, and not nearly loony enough.
At the Dixie Boy, a garbage truck kills Duncan when he departs to search for Deke, and a truck sporting a giant fiberglass Green Goblin mask on its grille slams bible salesman Camp Loman into a ditch. Later, big rig trucks encircle the truck stop. Connie and Curtis outmaneuver a semi-truck, causing it to crash off the side of the road and explode.
Crews' second children's book, Ten Black Dots, was published the following year. In addition to children's books, he continued working as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. [4] A recurring motif in Crews' work is transportation, seen in books Freight Train (1978), Truck (1980), Harbor (1982), School Bus (1984), and Flying (1986). [4]
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"Uncle Otto's Truck" has been adapted by artist Glenn Chadbourne for the book The Secretary of Dreams, a collection of comics based on King's short fiction released by Cemetery Dance in December 2006. "Uncle Otto's Truck" has also been adapted into a short film via King's "Dollar Baby" program, and was directed by Brian Johnson in 2019. [1]
Shortly afterwards, a tall man in a pickup truck offers to assist Tess and change her tire. At first he seems to be eager to help, but Tess soon realizes that he had set out the road hazard as a trap. The trucker knocks Tess out and proceeds to beat her and rape her several times, before finally choking her to unconsciousness.