Movies - The Car

	Movies - The Car

The Car is a 1977 horror film directed by Elliot Silverstein, written by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack, and starring James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd and Ronny Cox. It was produced and distributed by Universal Studios. The film was influenced in part by Steven Spielberg's 1971 thriller Duel and features a mysterious car with a murderous driver. The most memorable thing about the film was the sound effects which featured a hellishly terrifying horn blast the car made whenever it was about to kill somebody.

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Synopsis

A small New Mexico community is terrorized by a phantom black muscle car that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. The main character, Sheriff Wade Parent (Brolin), is on a mission to stop the demonic car which may be driven by Satan himself.

Trivia

The phantom car in the film was a customized 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III designed by famed customizer George Barris who designed the Munster's Koach and the original Batmobile (used in the 1966 television series).

There were four cars built in six weeks for the filming and all were destroyed during production. Supposedly, a fifth car was built and displayed for a time at Universal Studios but was eventually given back to Barris who later sold it to a private collector in the 1980s.

The Ertl Company made a limited edition 1:18 scale die cast model of "The Car".

The "demonic car" concept is also featured in Stephen King's novel and 1983 movie Christine (about a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury), and also a 1990 FOX movie called Wheels of Terror (which features a driverless Dodge Charger that abducts a little girl).

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