Why are so many car movies set in the desert? There's the two hitchhiking movies from a month ago. These two movies on Friday. Mad Max. Vanishing Point. Maybe it's just easier to close the roads for filming. Maybe kicking up sand is cool? Not as many objects to accidentally hit?
The car in The Car is a Lincoln Continental Mark III with a whole new body.
Which is a pretty scary car to be chasing you. I would be most scared by the Volkswagen Thing though.
The Car is on The Official Razzie Movie Guide's 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made, a list I just found out exists. I'm going to track it down and figure how many we've watched from the list.
The truck in Duel is a 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck:
And Dennis Weaver in the film drives a 1971 Plymouth Valiant:
The guy who wrote the movie, Richard Matheson, also wrote I Am Legend and the Nightmare at 20,000 feet episode of The Twilight Zone. Plus it's directed by Steven Spielberg who directed the best exploitation movie of all time, Jaws.
Here's what happened two weeks ago:
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