This one is ostensibly a JAWS rip-off, with the ominous music and large predator,(here being a large black sedan instead of a large fake shark, of course) but it's done well-enough and acted straight enough that the seemingly ludicrous concept never seems to get too ridiculous. Even when our evil possibly Satan-driven vehicle rams itself right through a ladies house to take her out we are invested enough in the characters to not burst out laughing(well some of us are anyway!). James Brolin, who I never really paid much attention to outside of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR until recently, pulls off a pretty convincing badass cop. While it does seem like some weird 70s made-for-T.V. movie(which reminds me you should watch this on a double-bill with KILLDOZER for a great vehicular manslaughter double-feature!) that somehow got a big-budget Hollywood release it surprisingly works despite the lack of blood.
There's a current sort-of sequel to this called THE CAR: ROAD TO REVENGE that looks like some kinda futuristic cyberpunk thing and it also looks, like most films that come out in 2019, like a big pile of crap.
And here's something that has no reason to exist!:
The Car gets very enlarged for this newspaper ad!:
Released on Canadian VHS tape as DEATHMOBILE!:
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