The Car

I remember when it was out at theatres I went to see it and loved it wass oso glad to find it on dvd hope that there will be a remake with even better special effects and crazier car

For years my friends would tell me that i need to see this car as they know im a big Lincoln fan. So after years of coming up empty ordering it from video outlets, I finally came to amazon and found it. Though i was only one year old when this came out, I always heard jokes about this car and know I finally get all the jokes about the big bumper, the "scary" horn and the scour-type front end. This is a B movie classic. Everyone gets killed in a kinda humorous way, the effects are believable,and you can see the actors as they were up n coming, or atleast trying to stay afloat... Ronny Cox- from drunk deputy, to captain from Beverly Hills cop.. Quite the leap! Only thing i didnt like was the ending. It didnt answer ONE of the many questions we all had, when the credits start to roll. And when the credits roll, another CAR is on the prowl? Maybe he'll mow down from jay walkers in California.. When James Brolin corners the car with his cop bike and a pistol- does he favor Ch... Read more

The first time that I saw this movie, I was resting in a Prague hotel room after a long day of sightseeing. Flipping through the TV channels, I stopped on a movie that was just starting. The titles were all in German (I think), as was the dubbing, so I had no idea what I was watching. But from the first scene where the demon car delibrately attacks the bicyclists, I was hooked. A few years later, I posted a description of the movie on a forum, and someone recognized it. I rented it, and, to my delight, it was indeed The Car. Yes, some of the acting is wooden, and the script a bit cliched. But the car itself, with its mystery and mocking horn, sticks in my memory.

The Car is a little known horror film produced in 1977 by Elliot Silverstein about a mysterious car that attacks a small southwestern town. It did not do well in its theatrical release, failing to compete with Star Wars, which came out the same year, and being panned by movie critics as a cheesy B-grade horror flick. It has gained a small cult following with its subsequent release on DVD. The Car is a surprisingly well made and vastly underrated movie that unfortunately fell victim to the B-grade horror stereotype. Despite its obvious low budget, The Car produces elements not typically seen in this movie genre like character development and religious undertones. The car is a modified 1971 Lincoln Continental which is both cool looking and menacing, with its ghostly engine roar and terrifying horn blast it makes after claiming another victim. Amos (R.G. Armstrong) is a wife beating dynamite salesman. Wade (James Brolin) is a local cop trying to put his life back together afte... Read more

The creepy part about this movie is within its simplicity. A car arrives to terrorize a small sleepy town in the mid west. It kills several people and in ways that is does not make sense to the people in the town. For an example it killed one woman by crashing through her home. No one was able to understand how it sliced a home in half 5 feet off the ground with no apparent ramp. At another point in the movie it does a fishtail turn to the side and rolls over two police cars flattening them and kills the cops inside, only to wind up back on its wheels and it keeps going down the road, with barely a scratch. In the end they decide to blow up a whole canyon to burry the thing since it has killed off most of the cops in the sleepy little town. A bit of a hint to whom might be driving the car at the end but I don't want to give it away. The movie ends with credits while the car makes a trip to some kind of generic American city. So many victims and so little time, kind of reminds me of ... Read more