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THE GIRL IN MY TRUCK

THE GIRL IN MY TRUCK
By Joseph Murkijanian

GENRE: Horror, Film Noir
LOGLINE:

A charming long-haul trucker with an angelic smile crisscrosses America’s interstates, offering stranded young women a ride to safety—until a relentless investigator uncovers the horrifying truth hidden in his trailer and races against the open road to stop one final, fatal journey.

SYNOPSIS:

By day, America’s highways are arteries of commerce. By night, they become hunting grounds. Ben, a clean-cut, soft-spoken long-haul trucker with an easy smile and a reputation for kindness, drifts from state to state offering help to young women who’ve fallen through the cracks—runaways, hitchhikers, girls stranded at truck stops with nowhere left to turn. He listens. He understands. He makes them feel safe. And then they vanish. With no fixed address and no obvious pattern, Ben hides in plain sight, using the anonymity of the open road as both shield and weapon.

As disappearances mount across multiple states, veteran investigator Mara Kline begins to sense a darker logic behind the chaos. While law enforcement chases dead ends and false leads, Mara recognizes the truth: this isn’t a monster who lurks in shadows—it’s one who survives by appearing human. As Ben grows bolder and his grip on reality begins to fracture, his carefully constructed self-image as a “rescuer” collapses into violence, leading to a brutal mistake that leaves a living witness trapped inside his rig. The manhunt ignites, spilling across highways, weigh stations, and forgotten industrial zones, turning America’s infrastructure into a battleground.

With time running out and the country watching, Mara orchestrates a final confrontation where Ben can no longer hide behind charm or motion. Forced to face the woman who survived him—and the truth of what he has become—Ben’s last ride becomes a reckoning. The Girl in My Truck: The Last Ride is a relentless road-noir thriller about trust weaponized, evil disguised as empathy, and the terrifying idea that sometimes the most dangerous predators don’t chase—you step willingly into their cab.

THE GIRL IN MY TRUCK

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