Before Jaws, before Jurassic Park, before Spielberg was the patron saint of summer blockbusters, he made a film that proved you don’t need a giant shark or prehistoric monsters to terrify an audience, all you need is a faceless truck, a stretch of desert highway, and the nerve to keep the camera rolling as it…
Tag: Killer Car
Killdozer! (1974) – Review
In the history of the horror genre, the threat of killer vehicles may not be as common a trope as say machete-wielding maniacs, but over the years a few gems have popped up to entertain horror fans, with the likes of John Carpenter’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine and the classic 70s horror film The…
The Car: Road to Revenge (2019) – Review
In 1977, Universal Pictures released a nice little horror film called The Car, which had James Brolin and Ronny Cox dealing with a demonic car that was terrorizing their small Midwestern town. Now, over forty years later, we get a sequel to that horror classic…well, kind of, but not really. Universal Pictures is once again…
Christine: From Book to Screen
Man’s love affair with the automobile has been well documented, George Lucas’ American Graffiti is practically a love letter to the American automobile, but there is also the dark side, the obsession that can push one over the brink and into madness.
The Car (1977) – Review
In 1975, Jaws didn’t just terrify beachgoers, it handed Hollywood a very lucrative instruction manual: take one unstoppable threat, point it at a group of unprepared humans, and collect your cheque. Studios obeyed with the enthusiasm of people who had just discovered copy-and-paste. Two years later, The Car rolls in, politely asking why the monster…