Thursday, May 27, 2010

"The Car"

It's been a few weeks and I figured it was high time for another spoiler alert. This week I'll be summarizing 1977's The Car.
The film opens with two young people with their lives ahead of them riding their bikes down a winding mountain road. They're having the time of their lives, which turns out to be their last, when a mysterious black luxury car appears to terrorize them and eventually run them off the road and over the edge of a cliff. When the car starts knocking off a cast of bit characters, including an annoying hitchhiking horn playing hippie and an elderly policeman, the law gets involved. After interviewing a wise old indian woman the town sheriff, Wade, learns that the killer sedan appears to have no driver. Wade, who's canoodling the town music teacher, gets worried and tells another officer to cancel the marching band practice. In a state of shock the officer forgets to pass the order on to the music teacher and the practice goes on as scheduled. When the evil black car arrives on the scene of the practice chaos ensues and the teachers usher all of the children into an old cemetery (for some strange reason) This is when we find out Wade's lady friend, Lauren the music teacher, has balls of steel. When the car doesn't enter the graveyard she begins to taunt and tease the car, challenging the driver to get out and show their face. The car is visibly aggravated but never enters the cemetery. The law arrives at the parade grounds and the car flees the scene and the police pursue. One officer is tricked into following the car up a winding road and turns a corner to find the car facing him. The car moves forward and nudges the police car off the edge of the cliff. Somehow, perhaps in anticipation of the impact, the police car bursts into flames the moment it goes over the edge. Back at the base of the cliff the car meets more police and flips itself over, rolling over the police vehicles causing them to burst into fire. The car lands on its four wheels and drives off unharmed. The car next meets Wade, who's waiting beside his motorcycle with his gun drawn. He aims and fires at the demon vehicle but is unable to make a dent no matter where he fires. The car pops it's drivers side door open and coaxes Wade to come peak inside but when he reaches the car the door swings open knocking Wade unconscious on the side of the road. With Wade in the hospital and the rest of the force trying to find a way to stop the evil car Lauren goes home to rest. While on the phone with Wade in the hospital the evil car gets his revenge for Lauren's taunts by crashing through her living room window and killing her. Wade and the other officers decide that since the car wasn't able to enter the cemetery, hallowed ground and all, that it must be pure evil and it must be stopped. They round up all the plastic explosives they can and begin to run around town gathering all the tools and supplies they'll need to, well, Get 'R' Dun. While rummaging around in his barn, Wade finds that he isn't alone, that somehow the car has gotten in their with him. He jumps over the car and onto his trusty hog, narrowly escaping with his life. A chase ensues but the other officers have already started driving out to ready the explosives. Wade and another officer use themselves as bait and trick the car into driving off the edge of a cliff, at the bottom of which are a huge quantity of explosives. When the car hits the bottom and the bombs explode the face of pure Evil with a capital E is visible in the flames.
The end.

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