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…
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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…