![]() ![]() This movie isn’t quite the masterpiece it was billed as at the time, but it is a fascinating blend of pop influences - the terse gearhead classics of the ’70s, the New Age stylings of the ’80s, the hip irony of the millennial era. Directed by Elliot Silverstein, this cult horror flick was a late-show mainstay: Any kid switching channels late at night in the ’80s when those ominous “Dies Irae” chords came on knew he or she was in for something special. ![]() But that’s kind of its genius, too: Because this car does all sorts of things a car could never actually do, you never quite know what to expect. Utterly ridiculous, at times laughably so. A black automobile, presumably from the depths of Hell, terrorizes a small town, and it’s local lawman James Brolin’s job to stop it. This is basically Jaws with a car, and it’s just as loony as that sounds. ![]()
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