Review – The Car

Let’s see ... how could we make a movie that would be just like Jaws, but set it in the desert Southwest? I know, why don’t we use a demonic black car instead of a shark? Really, the plot would have been just about as plausible and the threat just about as menacing if they’d gone ahead and used a big fish flopping around in the dirt. One of the vignettes in Nightmares gives us a priest being pursued by a demonic black pick-em-up truck, and that’s just about as effective a piece of horror as this whole movie (not to mention that the vignette is shorter and thus has less trouble keeping itself going). This movie’s one moment is when the car squashes the love interest, where there’s a brief moment of genuine suspense as the audience watches out an open window as the headlights approach the house. Other than that, stick to sharks. See if desperate