Watching this film reminds me of the Doors' song, "Riders on the storm". Indeed, the villain rides on a storm of a car and straight from hell. If this movie is a commentary of American's car culture, then it held even more true today as a manifestation of what we now called "road rage", and there's no better embodiment of road rage then this car. A bulky low top car that's a cross between a hearse and a cardiac. Its horns are the trumpet of doom, calling for the end of the world. Its windows are tainted red, as if to contain the fiery fury of road rages from bursting out onto the world. The car itself vomited from hell, now rides in the badland of Utah, killing whoever is in its way or not in its way.
Unlike its contemporaries, this film is fast pace, dead bodies starts to pile up within 30 minutes. The Car is also unlike its contemporaries in its body count, I start to lose count after nine. With the newly remaster DVD the local of the film is breath taking made even more beautiful by the cinematographic. The music and the cast are straight out of memorable 70's disaster movies, in a good way. I love Kathleen Lloyd's performance as a spunky school teacher, and James Brolin as good humor but serious under sheriff and also the Richards sister as under sheriff's kids.
The film itself held up pretty well in its 31 years, sure, the bell bottom jean and the fluffy hair style are kind of out-dated, but everything else could come right out of today's Hollywood studio. If they ever decided to make a decent movie for a change.
Unlike its contemporaries, this film is fast pace, dead bodies starts to pile up within 30 minutes. The Car is also unlike its contemporaries in its body count, I start to lose count after nine. With the newly remaster DVD the local of the film is breath taking made even more beautiful by the cinematographic. The music and the cast are straight out of memorable 70's disaster movies, in a good way. I love Kathleen Lloyd's performance as a spunky school teacher, and James Brolin as good humor but serious under sheriff and also the Richards sister as under sheriff's kids.
The film itself held up pretty well in its 31 years, sure, the bell bottom jean and the fluffy hair style are kind of out-dated, but everything else could come right out of today's Hollywood studio. If they ever decided to make a decent movie for a change.