tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648318843542898679.post6867832850288352137..comments2024-03-25T07:08:08.208-04:00Comments on Unseen Films: The Car (1977)Steve Kopianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881135464953746959noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648318843542898679.post-56891672909233028362013-08-14T04:09:38.744-04:002013-08-14T04:09:38.744-04:00This is a really interesting fillum for me, not fo...This is a really interesting fillum for me, not for itsself, but for its associations. It is probably one of the last of a genre I would classify as Drive-in films. They were the seventies precoursers of straight-to-video, never seriously intended to be watched in a cinema, rather meant to be part of a double feature not neccessarily intended to command its audience's unwavering attention, but to offer points of connection. The two finest examples from my Australian childhood being Peter Weir's "The Cars that Ate Paris"(AKA "The spikey VW Beetle movie"and Dr George Miller's seminal road safety treatise "Mad Max".<br /><br />As to why "The Car" is significant, I think there's a fairly obvious line that can be drawn between Speilberg's "Duel", (from which this film borrows, (because "steals"is such a judgemental word,) its concept, and the first breakaway home-video cult phenomenon "Tremors", which pretty much re-uses the plot of this fillum replacing a customised Lincoln Mk V. with giant earthworms.Reghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14990068594003212588noreply@blogger.com