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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