ROAD TRAIN
CAST : Bob Morley, Xavier Samuel, Sophie Lowe, Georgina Haig
DIRECTOR : Dean Francis
The story here is that four teenagers are on a camping road trip on the Australian outback. They are soon followed by a road train, a massive two-trailer truck which they admire. Until the rams them up the rear end and causes their car to flip several times in a big accident. Fortunately none of them die but one is seriously injured. Strangely the truck stops a couple of kilometres up the road and when the four walk up to confront the reckless driver, they discover something spine-chilling.
Not many people ever saw a horror flick called The Car. It was released in 1977 and starred James Brolin. What The Car was, was a black tinted car which terrorised a small town by running people over. The scariest part was that it had no driver, or none that could be seen by the naked eye anyway. A similar story exists with the road train, which essentially seems to carry some supernatural being(s) that either possess and or kills fellow road users. It’s a very low-key horror, one that keeps one guessing most of the way. Sadly though, too much gore (an unnecessary feature of the modern horror genre) rears its ugly head somewhere as the story unravels. The storyline itself is simple enough, while the acting is seriously basic.
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