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While backpacking across the country, bickering gay couple Cary and Vogel decide to speed up their trek by hitchhiking instead. That's when fate brings them Brewster, a sexually confused trucker who picks the pair up on his way to delivering a shipment of coffins. After a few strokes of bad luck, the mismatched trio ends up lost and broken down in an abandoned junkyard. Though surviving a night of petty fights and sexual tension seems tough enough, the nightmare is only just getting started as strange noises in the back of the truck reveal the presence of five bloodthirsty vampires.
Mark Bessenger is an award-winning filmmaker who is either jumping back and forth from horror to gay themes or straddling the line. Mark made 2 feature films while a grad student at Columbia College Chicago (NINJA ZOMBIE, RHAPSODY) before gaining festival attention with his third... Read More →