Back The Truck Up is all about freight culture and that means those wonderful little B-movies that make all of us look like perverted psychopaths. Yes, since the times of grainy 9mm film projectors, Hollywood has portrayed truckers as sex-ridden, bloodthirsty heathens out to get high off drugs, drive for days on end, and kill sex workers as easily as chickens through an eviscerator at the processing plant.
Written and directed by John Swab, the movie involves all the main figures in a great horror film; prostitutes, religious cults, and scummy law enforcement officials. Olivia Luccardi, coming off her recent success in “Soft and Quiet”, plays Remy, a virgin “escapee” of a religious cult that sends sinners to meet their maker the easy way, by hacking and slashing them to a bloody pulp and leaving them in religious poses.
And where’s the modern-day sinner honeypot? You guessed it, the local truck stop. The ball starts rolling after Levi, the only male member of the brothel, bludgeons a client to death in self-defense.
That brings in the local traveling preacher and his sheep, including Remy, who escapes and begs to join the cadre of hookers. Soon after, one of the Johns is found on a toilet gutted open, hands crossed in a religious pose.
Soon after, blood and body parts begin to fly in classic slasher movie fashion. If you’ve seen one slasher flick, you’ve seen them all.
Although the film does a great job of showing the world the dark part of trucking, that there are still hookers working in truck stops, there are not table loads of prostitutes at every turn. Recent endeavors by anti-human trafficking groups such as Truckers Against Trafficking have helped publicize the blight that the film portrays.
Candy Land is out in theaters and available online through your favorite streaming platform.
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