Ronin is still one of the best car chase/crash movies. The fact the stunt drivers actually went headlong into traffic gives it a realism cgi could never match.
@@robertodell9193 Apart from the car chase it's also a really nifty crime picture with the likes of Roy Scheider, Richard Lynch, and Joe Spinell. It's a bit of a shame that it's not more widely appreciated.
I remember that, in Hawaii 5-0, cars would drive off cliffs and then suddenly explode while still in the air. It was something to look forward to every episode.
One of the greatest (stupidest) car explosions is in the movie TROG, where caveman Trog turns a car on its side and it spontaneously explodes. Perhaps the driver was on a suicide-bombing mission and the vehicle was packed with explosives. In that case, Trog is actually a hero who thwarted an attack on innocent people.
Funny thing, I was looking for the film on Wiki, saw about FIVE films named Crash (including The Crash from 1932), but not this one until I added the exclamation point. 🙄 And the release date on Wiki is 1977.
This movie was probably made a year or so before Laserblast, and possibly followed the same formula; someone comes into the possession of a strange mcguffin and, through said mcguffin, kills the person(s) who wronged him or her and anyone who gets in the way.
Not a bad formula for a low budget film. You can pack in as much action as you can afford, and if things get too slow, just have the mcguffin attack again.
Great review, always glad to see a review of a killer car movie! Another good fit would be The Car, a 1977 horror movie that is Jaws with a car terrorizing a desert town with tons of goofy dialogue. Also, there's Trucks from 1997 which is a TV remake of Maximum Overdrive that is a better film but has some dodgy writing including a ridiculous scene where a toy dump truck kills a mailman.
I love everything about this movie! The cars explode! Ferrer is a creep! Carradine is sort of spooky! Sue Lyon got talked into making a movie where she has deep facial scars! The cops set up road blocks that the ghost car gets through every time! The film has a ghost car! The film has a voodoo type idol that gives people strange powers! Best movie ever made? Discuss! The Citizen Kane of crappy car crash movies? Did I mention the cars explode????
Stephen King gave us something a lot more similar in "Christine" though. Published in 1983, he could have seen this movie before writing the novel. Just like he was inspired to write "The ten o'clock people" after seeing "They live".
Saw this as a late night movie on TV as a 9 year old. At that age I beleived it all and thought it was cool, weird and scary. Ive since learned how the car was driven without anyone in it. Clever for a low budget.
54 seconds in when you show the first crash, where the van explodes. Is that a very floppy dummy I see flying out of it? Also there’s times watching this with the ‘ghost car’ , where I feel we should hear the theme from the Fall Guy play
A man who believes that a plot where his highly trained dog leaps onto a speeding open top car and bites the face off of the driver to enact his revenge, is simpler than drowning, electrocution, poison or a plain old bullet to the head, is truly off of his meds. Bravo that man!
@@buzzawuzza3743 I saw way more coupes than sedans: camaro, belaire, chevelle, etc. and even those sedans would be worth owning today, especially chopped & lowered... hella sweet ride 😎
It’s usually scrap yard shells used in these movies for stationary vehicle crashes. At least take the engine blocks out. They’ll paint and do minimal body work, depending on the camera shot.
As a car guy, seeing so much classic American iron destroyed causes me actual physical pain. Not crash movies per se, but two of my favorite car movies are Vanishing Point and Christine.
I definitely know about it because I've seen it twice. It's a rather unusual film in that it was done somewhat in the existential style of French New Wave movies such as BREATHLESS (No names--the characters are only referred to as "the Driver", "the Cop", "the Girl", and so on). And sure, it's a bit pretentious---but in a very interesting way. It should also be mentioned that Bruce Dern is one of the main cast members.
@@ashleys9397 I find it more in the vein of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville than the New Wave which was more freewheeling in style. Le Samourai or Le Cercle Rouge come to mind.
@@a.champagne6238 Thanks for replying. I'm sorry for taking so long with my counter-response. As regards THE DRIVER: I think I was referring more to the movie's overall tone rather than its visual or dramatic style. I'm not all that familiar with Monsieur Melville's body of cinema work. In just the previous year I saw LE SAMOURAI for the first time when it ran on TCM---and I pretty much thoroughly dug it. Alain Delon is the epitome of icy perfection as the assassin-for-hire. Yep, this is one I'm definitely going to watch again sometime. I have to mention here that I'm not in any way a fan of New Wave film, particularly the oeuvre of Jean Luc Godard. BREATHLESS was O.K., but that's mainly because Jean Paul Belmondo is usually terrific in almost anything he's done. Otherwise I'm just too put off by all the pretentious Sixties lefty Situationist agitprop poppycockery. On the other hand I would be much remiss if I didn't admit to a real fascination with Godard's science-fiction parody/pastiche ALPHAVILLE that I can't really explain. And, yeah, I do have a certain liking for the more surrealist-cum-absurdist bits in WEEKEND. And...O.K....I guess I also (kind of) like CONTEMPT. So, yeah, I guess that means he doesn't suck entirely. Or whatever.
I feel like there was just one more 'Crash' masterpiece crying out for a mention... 2002's petrol station classic, "Crash, Bang, Wallop! What a Video!!"
Per Wiki, "The film had the working title 'The Transfusion' before it was changed to 'Crash!'" Oooo-kay..... And, geez, John Carradine will appear in anything, won't he? 🤣
They were in the heyday of the exploding Ford Pintos (my maternal grandfather had one I used). People were driving around with signs on the back of the car which said "Stay Back - Will Explode If Struck." They were unbelievably bad cars in numerous ways, but they were best known as rolling crematoriums. The gas tanks would detonate if struck in the car was struck in the rear. The car had been rushed into production without a lot of safety review work. The ghost car should have crashed into a lot full of Ford Pintos and the next scene would have shown some nuclear explosion footage.
Car crash movies were big at that time. There were at least 2 other demonic car movies. There was even the TV movie "Killdozer". There was the 1971 TV movie "Harpy" that had a trained falcon that did the dirty work. Such was the '70s. Thanks for posting. This is another one I somehow missed.
I literally just heard of the movie that tries to sexualize car crashes yesterday. I thought for sure you were reviewing that one. I'm glad I was wrong
I bought a couple of your books. I like them and I am planning on buying the others. Thanks for the videos and the books. (I had a ‘69 Camaro back in 1977. I had a lot of fun in that car and I sure wish I still had it)
I wouldn't say I have memorable car crashes but I do recall being fascinated when the hub caps would come off of cars during the speeding chase scenes. Especially from William Conrad's huge Lincoln in his show Cannon.
I have never recommended a review. However, just witnessed the trailer for Krampus Unleashed, a direct lift from Oddbod and thus worthy of your attention.
Well my grandpa's '67 Camero never acted like that. There are no less than 31 individual cars identified in this movie on IMCDb. Charles Band was reportedly on the 10 most wanted list for the DMV for about 10 years due to how many cars he bought and destroyed in this movie. Also for some reason in West Germany, it was called Dracula's Death Race in theaters and then had three different names when released on video, none of which were the theater title.
That Camaro is boss. And, godammit, I'd pay a small fortune for that Chevy truck Charles Band is driving. Forget 'horror'--this movie looks like a dream for car enthusiasts!
I have never heard of this one and, for a few minutes, it looked like this might be some obscure gem. But, then towards the end, it was like 'nah'. If you are interested in possessed vehicles, might I suggest the 70's TV movie Killdozer. Written by SF great Theodore Sturgeon, it is not a great film but weird enough to keep the viewers interest.
Oh, man.........have that key chain stay in the ignition to make the car causing accidents because of telekinesis while she's stumbling around hurt and then unconscious in the hospital and they really could have had something there. Do they ever try to explain how the ghost car ended up back on it's wheels since it flipped in the accident? Why have I never heard of this??? Thanks for reviewing this.
First time I've ever seen a car, boat, truck crash. With all the explosions, it's a wonder why so many cars must have been carrying dynamite or nitro glycerin at the time. I guess the best car crash film I've seen is probably Grand Theft Auto (1977). It completely embraces its exploitative genre without a single CGI effect. Death Proof (2007) is probably the best "car chase" film and Super Hybrid (2010) is probably the best "mysterious killer car" film.
@@buzzawuzza3743 It was hella cool. You could remove the ignition key and it still ran. It was a sad bad day when the Andy Granatelli boy told me I had zero compression in cylinder seven.
Somewhere in the multiverse, the telekinetic car from Crash! and K.IT.T. had a versus movie with Christine. Such a film seems like it might be enjoyable.
Car crash movies? Well, there's Vanishing Point, The Gumball Rallye (my favorite), Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, Death Race 2000, The Great Race, Cannonball Run, Smoky & The Bandit, to name a few. Edit: I forgot The Dukes Of Hazzard!
It looks like they brought up a lot of stock footage of car crashes, pieced them together with what we think at first is a rip off of THE CAR. But it it turns out to be a movie of revenge and counter revenge. I had a Doberman and I always hate when they make them into killer dogs ( they really love people). No movie beats THE ROAD WARRIOR when it comes to car crashes.
Thanks for pointing that out about Dobermans. My brother & his family once had a female Doberman--and you couldn't have asked for a nicer dog. I guess Dobermans have been so stereotyped because they are highly intelligent animals & are readily trainable as guard & police dogs (and face it, they are good at it). I agree with you about THE ROAD WARRIOR; it's probably the single best car crash movie.
The best car crash movie ever made is undoubtably Gone In 60 Seconds. Hope I don’t even have to point out I mean the original 1974 Halicki version, not that Cage/Jolie thing.
Christine/Maximum Overdrive/(maybe "Duel" (a TV film from 1971: film director - Steven Spielberg)/a Tesla, featuring Cujo, the friendly (black) dog)....
I first saw this 10 minutes after it started, I actually thought Hal Needham directed it for a laugh. That is, until I saw the end credits, I was a tiny bit tipsy at the time and was very wrong.
I was cheering for the wheelchair to win out and it could have happened, if the guy had been smart enough to leap sideways in it when the car rammed it!
So, essentially, this is a movie in which Norman Fell sicks Cujo on Suzanne Sommers because she won't let him return a defective Thighmaster for store credit.... Screw it, I'm in!!!
Ok I'm confused. BTW: there's a story out there (who knows if it's true) that when Sue lyon finished making Lolita, she was too young to get in to the theater to see it
Upon seeing the title of today's offering, I suspected that you would make a point to differentiate it from the Oscar-winning 2004 film, and felt compelled to mention there was also a 1996 Cronenberg movie of the same name about... uh, people sexually fetishizing car crashes. But you already knew about that one too! YAY... sorta... I guess. Maybe no one really wins in this situation. Favorite 'car crash' movie? I don't know... am not really a fan of the 'Fast & Furious' franchise, but it's still better than any movie that's just about 'car crashes'. Let's see, you've reviewed 1986's Maximum Overdrive, but apparently not 1977's The Car or 1986's The Wraith. The very best 'evil possessed car' movie is of course almost certainly 1983's Christine, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. I could argue that overall it's probably too good a movie to get a Bad Movie Review, but in essence I feel that it very clearly was born from B Movie roots, just given a decent budget and taken somewhat seriously. Like 'Alien' is to 'It Came From Outer Space'.
The producer/director can not been inspired by The Blues Brothers to have wanted to make a Blues Brothers level of car crashes in this movie, since The Blues Brothers was released in 1980, 4 years after this film. Come to think of it, all the movies or TV shows I am reminded of by this movie were released later, such as The Wraith, Knight Rider, Christine and others. Could this crash fiesta have inspired the later movies? Stephen King could have been inspired by this to write "Christine", just like he was inspired to write "The ten o'clock people" after watching They Live.
I was expecting the wheelchair to explode.
Movies have taught me all cars in Hollywood are filled with nitroglycerin. Insurance must cost a fortune.
It could be a small fender bender in a parking lot and both cars explode!
True that! Thissiz why judder bars were banned in the U.S. back in '52.
I'd forgotten how explody our cars were back then. They burst into flames whenever the wheels left the ground.
The length of time between installments and the similar titles has really held back the crash cinematic universe.
I hear the Bandicoot spinoff found a market, though.
Hollywood and its damn remakes!
HAW! Nice one 👍😁👍
The lurch into faddish sci-fi with Starcrash ruined the franchise.
Ah yes......the "Canine killing possessed wheelchair" sub-genre. Lots of timeless classics in there to chose from 👍
My question is, how slow was she driving for the dog to jump inside and not miss?! :=)
“These cars blow up really easily.” Back then, all cars were made of Kaboomite.
The technical term is Explodium. I shouldn't have to explain this.
@@robertodell9193 As Materials Sciency Stuff is not my field, I defer to your expertise . . .
Hahahaha!!!!
If "Crash" was executed as brilliant as "Jaws" - nobody had bought a car for decades 🤔
Ronin is still one of the best car chase/crash movies. The fact the stunt drivers actually went headlong into traffic gives it a realism cgi could never match.
The guy who played Larry did his own driving, too, stunts included. It really adds something when you can tell they’re driving for real.
You should watch The Seven-Ups. Best car chase ever, bar none.
@@robertodell9193 Apart from the car chase it's also a really nifty crime picture with the likes of Roy Scheider, Richard Lynch, and Joe Spinell. It's a bit of a shame that it's not more widely appreciated.
Back in the 70s and 80s when a car would roll down a hill and explode.
Agreed hatred🎯
I remember that, in Hawaii 5-0, cars would drive off cliffs and then suddenly explode while still in the air. It was something to look forward to every episode.
One of the greatest (stupidest) car explosions is in the movie TROG, where caveman Trog turns a car on its side and it spontaneously explodes. Perhaps the driver was on a suicide-bombing mission and the vehicle was packed with explosives. In that case, Trog is actually a hero who thwarted an attack on innocent people.
I remember those cars that had the gas tank on the hood and were made of balsa wood.
@@NoirFan01 If Trog wasn't a hero who was?
".... tries to find out from....John Carradine." Of course. Coulda seen that one comiing.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers there were two different films called "Crash". Little did I realise there was a third!
Funny thing, I was looking for the film on Wiki, saw about FIVE films named Crash (including The Crash from 1932), but not this one until I added the exclamation point. 🙄
And the release date on Wiki is 1977.
@@kali3665 Robin probably used the date on the copyright notice.
This movie was probably made a year or so before Laserblast, and possibly followed the same formula; someone comes into the possession of a strange mcguffin and, through said mcguffin, kills the person(s) who wronged him or her and anyone who gets in the way.
Not a bad formula for a low budget film. You can pack in as much action as you can afford, and if things get too slow, just have the mcguffin attack again.
Great review, always glad to see a review of a killer car movie!
Another good fit would be The Car, a 1977 horror movie that is Jaws with a car terrorizing a desert town with tons of goofy dialogue. Also, there's Trucks from 1997 which is a TV remake of Maximum Overdrive that is a better film but has some dodgy writing including a ridiculous scene where a toy dump truck kills a mailman.
The car is even worse than this movie 😊
I actually liked "The Car" yes it was cheesy but ya got to admit the car itself looked cool and had a cool horn. I also like "Duel"⛟
@@shannondore Two of my fave movies. That scene where The Car kills someone...inside their house!
@@parisgreen4600that scene scared the crap out of me as a kid!😂
We now know why nobody buys American cars (Tesla excluded) in Europe: those silly things burst into flames at the smallest fender-bender.
My favorite car-crash movie is _Crash._ No, not that one, the other one. No! Not that one either. The _other_ other one. Yeah, that one.
I've watched enough movies to know that, in the 1970's, cars would explode if you just closed the door too hard.
I love everything about this movie! The cars explode! Ferrer is a creep! Carradine is sort of spooky! Sue Lyon got talked into making a movie where she has deep facial scars! The cops set up road blocks that the ghost car gets through every time! The film has a ghost car! The film has a voodoo type idol that gives people strange powers! Best movie ever made? Discuss! The Citizen Kane of crappy car crash movies? Did I mention the cars explode????
I have a weird feeling Stephen King saw this then thought he could make something even goofier. thus he gave us Maximum Overdrive.
Stephen King gave us something a lot more similar in "Christine" though. Published in 1983, he could have seen this movie before writing the novel. Just like he was inspired to write "The ten o'clock people" after seeing "They live".
Every time a car explodes off of a cliff it reminds me of Toonces.
Bless you for remembering "Toonces the Driving Cat" from SNL.
The comedy continues with the captions on this video - great work.
Less than 10% of viewers see those extra jokes.
Saw this as a late night movie on TV as a 9 year old. At that age I beleived it all and thought it was cool, weird and scary. Ive since learned how the car was driven without anyone in it. Clever for a low budget.
54 seconds in when you show the first crash, where the van explodes. Is that a very floppy dummy I see flying out of it?
Also there’s times watching this with the ‘ghost car’ , where I feel we should hear the theme from the Fall Guy play
A man who believes that a plot where his highly trained dog leaps onto a speeding open top car and bites the face off of the driver to enact his revenge, is simpler than drowning, electrocution, poison or a plain old bullet to the head, is truly off of his meds. Bravo that man!
PS Best Sports GT category,Steve McQueens Ford GT4O
"These cars blow up very easily."
That sounds, oddly, like a complaint.
I absolutely love the car chase/crash scenes in The Blues Brothers. Some of the most outrageous car stunts I have ever witnessed on film.
No sure which is more painful, this movie itself, or all the classic cars they wasted to make it 😭
Really they were just four door sedans and a hippie van. And cop cars from Central Casting. Nothing the world can't live without.
@@buzzawuzza3743
I saw way more coupes than sedans: camaro, belaire, chevelle, etc. and even those sedans would be worth owning today, especially chopped & lowered... hella sweet ride 😎
It’s usually scrap yard shells used in these movies for stationary vehicle crashes. At least take the engine blocks out. They’ll paint and do minimal body work, depending on the camera shot.
I don’t know that you would call it a car crash movie, but I love the 1977 horror movie The Car with James Brolin.
I vote for Christine from Stephen King
Good guy alternate? The Thunder Road 1953 Ford Rum Runner
o carro a máquina do diabo in the car
That is a straight-up B-movie miracle of a film. 👍
"Don't make Lolita angry, You wouldn't LIKE her when she's angry."
As a car guy, seeing so much classic American iron destroyed causes me actual physical pain.
Not crash movies per se, but two of my favorite car movies are Vanishing Point and Christine.
Ah, the 1970s. When all cars were made out of C4.
The Driver with Ryan O'Neil and Isabelle Adjani is a great overlooked movie. I can't be the only one who knows of this one, right?
I definitely know about it because I've seen it twice. It's a rather unusual film in that it was done somewhat in the existential style of French New Wave movies such as BREATHLESS (No names--the characters are only referred to as "the Driver", "the Cop", "the Girl", and so on). And sure, it's a bit pretentious---but in a very interesting way. It should also be mentioned that Bruce Dern is one of the main cast members.
@@ashleys9397 I find it more in the vein of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville than the New Wave which was more freewheeling in style. Le Samourai or Le Cercle Rouge come to mind.
@@a.champagne6238 Thanks for replying. I'm sorry for taking so long with my counter-response. As regards THE DRIVER: I think I was referring more to the movie's overall tone rather than its visual or dramatic style. I'm not all that familiar with Monsieur Melville's body of cinema work. In just the previous year I saw LE SAMOURAI for the first time when it ran on TCM---and I pretty much thoroughly dug it. Alain Delon is the epitome of icy perfection as the assassin-for-hire. Yep, this is one I'm definitely going to watch again sometime.
I have to mention here that I'm not in any way a fan of New Wave film, particularly the oeuvre of Jean Luc Godard. BREATHLESS was O.K., but that's mainly because Jean Paul Belmondo is usually terrific in almost anything he's done. Otherwise I'm just too put off by all the pretentious Sixties lefty Situationist agitprop poppycockery. On the other hand I would be much remiss if I didn't admit to a real fascination with Godard's science-fiction parody/pastiche ALPHAVILLE that I can't really explain. And, yeah, I do have a certain liking for the more surrealist-cum-absurdist bits in WEEKEND. And...O.K....I guess I also (kind of) like CONTEMPT. So, yeah, I guess that means he doesn't suck entirely. Or whatever.
I saw it at the movies😅
Honestly, you keep saying its bad and then describing awesomeness like a wheelchair/camero chase scene :D
The original _Gone in 60 Seconds_ deserves more love than it gets.
1:47 Nice to see Zoltan the Hound of Dracula in a guest staring role... (Woof, Wolf, Wolf)
Also a Charles Band movie...
What won the Oscar that year? It must have been a belter to have kept this movie off the top spot....
I feel like there was just one more 'Crash' masterpiece crying out for a mention...
2002's petrol station classic, "Crash, Bang, Wallop! What a Video!!"
The dog is the best part
Per Wiki, "The film had the working title 'The Transfusion' before it was changed to 'Crash!'"
Oooo-kay.....
And, geez, John Carradine will appear in anything, won't he? 🤣
They were in the heyday of the exploding Ford Pintos (my maternal grandfather had one I used). People were driving around with signs on the back of the car which said "Stay Back - Will Explode If Struck." They were unbelievably bad cars in numerous ways, but they were best known as rolling crematoriums. The gas tanks would detonate if struck in the car was struck in the rear. The car had been rushed into production without a lot of safety review work. The ghost car should have crashed into a lot full of Ford Pintos and the next scene would have shown some nuclear explosion footage.
This movie definitely lives up to the title.
Car crash movies were big at that time. There were at least 2 other demonic car movies. There was even the TV movie "Killdozer". There was the 1971 TV movie "Harpy" that had a trained falcon that did the dirty work. Such was the '70s. Thanks for posting. This is another one I somehow missed.
Oddly enough, Jose Fererre was in a Columbo episode
I literally just heard of the movie that tries to sexualize car crashes yesterday. I thought for sure you were reviewing that one. I'm glad I was wrong
I would've liked to see GHOST CAR vs. THE CAR car in a coast to coast,no holes barred demolition,grudge,winner take all slaughter fest!
Jose looks just like his son there…it’s eerie seeing him looking like how i saw his son
This reminds me of 'Carrie' only car themed.
I bought a couple of your books. I like them and I am planning on buying the others. Thanks for the videos and the books.
(I had a ‘69 Camaro back in 1977. I had a lot of fun in that car and I sure wish I still had it)
She's married to Shaddam IV, Emperor of the entire universe...she's entitled to be aloof.....
The Road Warrior
I wouldn't say I have memorable car crashes but I do recall being fascinated when the hub caps would come off of cars during the speeding chase scenes. Especially from William Conrad's huge Lincoln in his show Cannon.
RIP Sue Lyon.
I have never recommended a review. However, just witnessed the trailer for Krampus Unleashed, a direct lift from Oddbod and thus worthy of your attention.
Best car crash horror movie? No question; "Duel". Early Spielberg but still definitely Spielberg.
As john candy said in blues brothers "I've been trucked"
Well my grandpa's '67 Camero never acted like that. There are no less than 31 individual cars identified in this movie on IMCDb. Charles Band was reportedly on the 10 most wanted list for the DMV for about 10 years due to how many cars he bought and destroyed in this movie. Also for some reason in West Germany, it was called Dracula's Death Race in theaters and then had three different names when released on video, none of which were the theater title.
I accidentally had subtitles on and, man, was I in for a treat!
I actually like the car crashes in Disney's The Love Bug.
That Camaro is boss. And, godammit, I'd pay a small fortune for that Chevy truck Charles Band is driving. Forget 'horror'--this movie looks like a dream for car enthusiasts!
I have never heard of this one and, for a few minutes, it looked like this might be some obscure gem. But, then towards the end, it was like 'nah'. If you are interested in possessed vehicles, might I suggest the 70's TV movie Killdozer. Written by SF great Theodore Sturgeon, it is not a great film but weird enough to keep the viewers interest.
I saw it on late night TV when I was a kid back in the late '70's...
Oh, man.........have that key chain stay in the ignition to make the car causing accidents because of telekinesis while she's stumbling around hurt and then unconscious in the hospital and they really could have had something there. Do they ever try to explain how the ghost car ended up back on it's wheels since it flipped in the accident?
Why have I never heard of this???
Thanks for reviewing this.
Once upon a time, back in the dinosaur days, there used to be this thing called drive-in theatres...oh, never mind!
Even the hospital wheelchair crashes.
I hope you realize that Band could not have been influenced by the blues brothers which came out 4 years after this movie.
I think The Blues Brothers was influenced by Band and Crash!
Something to ponder.
I'm waiting for the Mr. No Legs versus old guy from Crash! film...yeah, gonna keep waiting on that one.
First time I've ever seen a car, boat, truck crash. With all the explosions, it's a wonder why so many cars must have been carrying dynamite or nitro glycerin at the time.
I guess the best car crash film I've seen is probably Grand Theft Auto (1977). It completely embraces its exploitative genre without a single CGI effect. Death Proof (2007) is probably the best "car chase" film and Super Hybrid (2010) is probably the best "mysterious killer car" film.
0:13 That ‘65 white Chevy brought back some memories. I had a 4 door white Caprice.
Had a 283 Corvette motor in it and Cragars.
But it was a four door. The 2021 money is all in coupes even though your caprice was undoubtedly cool.
@@buzzawuzza3743 It was hella cool. You could remove the ignition key and it still ran. It was a sad bad day when the Andy Granatelli boy told me I had zero compression in cylinder seven.
Somewhere in the multiverse, the telekinetic car from Crash! and K.IT.T. had a versus movie with Christine. Such a film seems like it might be enjoyable.
I appreciate the fact that there was a whole subgenre of movie that existed because in the 70s America had a surplus of gas-guzzling shitboxes.
The 70s was the absolute for crazy car chases/crashes. The first Mad Max was definitely inspired by these films.
"Making a car crash film out of a story with no car crashes. And for not crashing the car that keeps on crashing." That's gold.
Car crash movies? Well, there's Vanishing Point, The Gumball Rallye (my favorite), Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, Death Race 2000, The Great Race, Cannonball Run, Smoky & The Bandit, to name a few.
Edit: I forgot The Dukes Of Hazzard!
It looks like they brought up a lot of stock footage of car crashes, pieced them together with what we think at first is a rip off of THE CAR. But it it turns out to be a movie of revenge and counter revenge. I had a Doberman and I always hate when they make them into killer dogs ( they really love people). No movie beats THE ROAD WARRIOR when it comes to car crashes.
Thanks for pointing that out about Dobermans. My brother & his family once had a female Doberman--and you couldn't have asked for a nicer dog. I guess Dobermans have been so stereotyped because they are highly intelligent animals & are readily trainable as guard & police dogs (and face it, they are good at it). I agree with you about THE ROAD WARRIOR; it's probably the single best car crash movie.
I am thoroughly mortified on Jose Ferrer's behalf.
"The Car" with James Brolin.
Spontaneously exploding cars, always a threat
the guy in the wheelchari played the emperor in david lynchs dune
"Retroactive" with spectacular car crashes.
Had no idea Acme manufacturers cars.
Dem cars , dey blowed up good !!!
Dem cars , dey blowed up real good !!
REAL REAL GOOD !!
It was like two films pushed together.
I'd rather watch this than that James Spader Holly Hunter monstrosity from the 90's.
Heathen.
@@zerpblerd5966 hey don't get me wrong, I love David Cronenberg movies. The Fly, Deadzone, Videodrome, and Scanners all classics imo.
I've never seen this masterpiece, but if it's half as batshit insane as the review makes it out to be, I have to track this down!
I hadn't noticed that Sue Lyon had died over a year ago.
Playing Lolita seems to ensure you wind up stuff like this....
I've always liked "The Astral Factor" with her (in that one, she's a VICTIM of the telekinesis). I wish that one would get reviewed here.
So basically this is a low budget version of the 70,s movie the car .
The best car crash movie ever made is undoubtably Gone In 60 Seconds.
Hope I don’t even have to point out I mean the original 1974 Halicki version, not that Cage/Jolie thing.
Christine/Maximum Overdrive/(maybe "Duel" (a TV film from 1971: film director - Steven Spielberg)/a Tesla, featuring Cujo, the friendly (black) dog)....
no mention of FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL?? i’m genuinely astonished. dude even kind of resembles STUART LANCASTER.
I love this movie.
Never let the truth get in the way of a movie.
If Mad Max had gone wrong.
I first saw this 10 minutes after it started, I actually thought Hal Needham directed it for a laugh. That is, until I saw the end credits, I was a tiny bit tipsy at the time and was very wrong.
I was cheering for the wheelchair to win out and it could have happened, if the guy had been smart enough to leap sideways in it when the car rammed it!
That's funny, I was cheering for the wheelchair to burst into flames after it went over the cliff.
PS - there's another movie made the same year - Checkered Flag - that also goes by the title Crash.....so four movies.
My favourite car crash film was The Cars That Ate Paris
So, essentially, this is a movie in which Norman Fell sicks Cujo on Suzanne Sommers because she won't let him return a defective Thighmaster for store credit....
Screw it, I'm in!!!
Ok I'm confused.
BTW: there's a story out there (who knows if it's true) that when Sue lyon finished making Lolita, she was too young to get in to the theater to see it
This movie is just screaming the 1970’s.
That's because it was made in the 1970s.
Upon seeing the title of today's offering, I suspected that you would make a point to differentiate it from the Oscar-winning 2004 film, and felt compelled to mention there was also a 1996 Cronenberg movie of the same name about... uh, people sexually fetishizing car crashes. But you already knew about that one too! YAY... sorta... I guess.
Maybe no one really wins in this situation.
Favorite 'car crash' movie? I don't know... am not really a fan of the 'Fast & Furious' franchise, but it's still better than any movie that's just about 'car crashes'.
Let's see, you've reviewed 1986's Maximum Overdrive, but apparently not 1977's The Car or 1986's The Wraith.
The very best 'evil possessed car' movie is of course almost certainly 1983's Christine, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. I could argue that overall it's probably too good a movie to get a Bad Movie Review, but in essence I feel that it very clearly was born from B Movie roots, just given a decent budget and taken somewhat seriously. Like 'Alien' is to 'It Came From Outer Space'.
Honestly those car crashes rival Gerry Anderson shows 😂
The producer/director can not been inspired by The Blues Brothers to have wanted to make a Blues Brothers level of car crashes in this movie, since The Blues Brothers was released in 1980, 4 years after this film. Come to think of it, all the movies or TV shows I am reminded of by this movie were released later, such as The Wraith, Knight Rider, Christine and others. Could this crash fiesta have inspired the later movies? Stephen King could have been inspired by this to write "Christine", just like he was inspired to write "The ten o'clock people" after watching They Live.
I think I saw this at the Drive In. We went to the Drive In to drink beer, smoke dope & make out. Not to actually watch the movie.