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4 April 2009 3:04 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Over at Sergio Valente and the Ground-Rule Double (I may have this slightly wrong), Dennis Cozzalio revels in the sand, dust, clouds, and sheer orneriness of Sam Peckinpah's trucker road show Convoy in HD. This is a movie I have an enduring unsentimental attachment to, since I was on the set in New Mexico for part of the shooting (riding in the camera car for scene where Ernest Borgnine's patrol car is squeezed, crushed, between two big rigs), and a happy set it was not. The combination of high altitude and harsh sun on a cast and crew of a film over-schedule and over-budget with a director who didn't always answer the knock on his trailer door was not morale-uplifting. In the frustrating logistics of shooting a cavalcade of trucks on the move and maintaining continuity as one thing after another went wrong, narrative logic got left by the wayside. …

28 January 2009 7:57 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

The first story: Shelby (Laura Breckenridge) and her boyfriend Rob (Lost Boys: The Tribe’s Tad Hilgenbrink) are driving at night. Rob is behind the wheel, and has joined a convoy with two other vehicles to make better time.

Stopping at a gas station to refuel, Rob meets Tryton (May’s Kevin Gage), the driver of the 18-wheeler leading the way, and a father traveling with his family who is picking up the rear. As the trio hits the highway again, Shelby tells Rob that she saw a girl in the back of Tryton’s truck. Rob assures her that Tryton told him that he’s traveling alone. Then Shelby sees the girl in the back of the truck again—this time holding up a Help Me sign…

The second story: Tabitha (Satan’S Little Helper’s Katheryn Winnick) is babysitting her two nephews (Brennan and Preston Bailey). Everything seems …

2 articles from 2009