Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Sam Panico America. The late 70s. It was a very different time and place, to be sure. Fuel was scarce. Crime wasn't. We weren't yet in the grip of the 1980s Satanic Panic, but thanks to Manson, Son of Sam and Zodiac, we were darn close. And despite blockbusters taking over the cinema, there remained grimy little movies unafraid to broadcast their flirtations with the dark lord – The Devil's Rain, The Omen, Mephisto Waltz and this largely forgotten little thriller — The Car.I first saw this film in another way the 70s were different — we only had five channels. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and a new pay channel – HBO. And unlike the HBO that you know and love today, there were no original series or blockbuster films. Just around 15-20 movies a month that would play again and again and, well, again. Anyone that grew up in the halcyon days of nascent HBO can recite many of them by heart: Flash Gordon, Sharkey's Machine, Superfuzz, Scavenger Hunt, They Call Me Bruce and The Car. I can personally claim to have seen this film over 280 times, perhaps because the summertime was all reruns when it originally aired and perhaps because it was my grandfather's favorite movie (until Terminator 2 came out and that is a story for another article).You'll notice another difference about 70s movies right from the start of this film — kids aren't just put in danger to scare the audience. No, in 1977, movies just outright killed kids two minutes into the movie and we sat there in mortal terror, watching jaws agape.Let's back up a bit. The hero of The Car is, quite literally, The Car. A George Barris customized 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III (Barris also created the 60s Batmobile), the secret of The Car appears to have no driver at the wheel…unless you count Satan! It has a blaring horn noise that is based on the Morse code for the letter X and it shows up just blasting that horn when you least expect it. Don't take it from me. Take it from the two kids, a hitchhiker and the sheriff that it smooshes. After that nice little spot of multiple vehicular homicide, The Car goes after an entire marching band and their leader Lauren (played by Kathleen Lloyd, who you may remember from It Lives Again, a sequel to It's Alive), chasing them the whole way to a cemetery. It turns out The Car can't cross hallowed ground, so she stands and insults it and calls it names. That leads to her boyfriend Chief Deputy Wade Parent chasing the car, shooting at it and tries to get into The Car, only to discover that it has no doorhandles.READ MORE AT http://www.thatsnotcurrent.com/40-years-later-look-back- car-1977/

zareenasafeer I love the 1977 film "The Car" for a number of reasons. One of which, I suppose, was that I first saw this "B" horror flick at the neighborhood theater as a child. Yes, it scared me then and makes me smile now. "The Car" is so extravangantly cheesy as to be almost surreal. To really understand the greatness of "The Car," one must compare it to John Carpenter's "Christine," another haunted car film based on one of Stephen King's weakest novels. I've seen "Christine" once and really don't care to view it again. I've seen "The Car" many times and will watch it every chance I get. Accurately noted by several reviewers, "The Car" is really "Jaws" on land. This souped up automobile is a sleek black Lincoln possessing a fog horn and a bumper the size of Wilford Brimley's mustache. It runs over bikers, hitchhikers and tuba players with hungry ease, tormenting the local yokel police force with demonic glee. The cast is the key here, with small town policemen James Brolin, John Marley and Ronnie Cox joining forces with dynamite expert R.G. Armstrong to corner The Car and blow it kingdom come. These actors have been around the block a few times in films far better than "The Car," but their experienced presence adds a note (albeit a small one) of respectability to the precedings. But before this salty crew goes after the metallic Beezlebub beast, The Car must terrorize a high school band, Brolin's hometown squeeze Kathleen Lloyd (whatever happened to her?) and several unlucky travelers in the wrong place at the wrong time. Needless-to-say, car insurance companies were left mightily frustrated after The Car paid a visit to Santa Ynaz. I don't know why The Car likes to drive in the desert, just as I don't know why it seems to have a crush on James Brolin, teasing him unmercifully while slowly picking off his crew one by one. I do know that the car chases in this film are tremendously exciting. The direction and editing is crisp. Leonard Rosenman's musical score is above average. And the final confrontation, while laughable in its epic excess, is memorable. http://www.gari.pk "The Car" is a fun movie, glorious in a "B" movie comic book kind of way. It's "Creature From the Black Lagoon," "The Omen," "Jaws" and "Smokey and the Bandit" all rolled into one hilariously transcendent package. It is celluloid pulp fiction, with the nutritional value of a whopper and fries. Please grill the onions.

atinder The Car (1977)IS this movie get remake? The Car 2014? I could not get into this movie at all.It was okay for first few 10 minutes but then it got boring, nothing really stood out at all. I did't find any of the movie scary or creepy, There no intense scenes to keep you on the edge of the your seat or anything. I was bored for well 97% of the movie, 3% some decent happens, I can not even remembered how it ended, only saw it two day ago.I found the movie very boring and very uneventful and forgettable I think the acting was decent from the whole cast.I give the movie 2 out of 10

Scott LeBrun This is a truly fun, kick ass thriller with a lightning pace and lots of impressive action and stunts. A solid cast acts with admirably straight faces as their vehicular adversary does its frightening thing. The whole scenario plays out against some awe inspiring desert vistas, and Leonard Rosenmans' music score is excellent. Also, the screenplay as concocted by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack, and Lane Slate (based on a story by Butler & Shryack) maintains some degree of mystery. Is the killer car an agent of the Devil, or perhaps Satan himself in automotive form? All we know is that it's fairly selective about who it targets, and its infernal triumphant honking every time it claims a victim really shreds ones' nerves.James Brolin is the stolid sheriff hero, Wade Parent, in this story about a demonic black sedan running down human after human. And that's about it for basic story, although there are character details along the way, such as Wade trying to get his daughters (played by real-life acting siblings Kim and Kyle Richards) to accept Lauren (Kathleen Lloyd), the new woman in his life, and the fact that deputy Luke (Ronny Cox) has supposedly recovered from alcoholism.John Marley is likable as old cop Everett, R.G. Armstrong has plenty of fire in him as a drunken, abusive s.o.b., and other familiar faces in the cast include John Rubinstein, Roy Jenson, Kate Murtagh, Robert Phillips, Melody Thomas Scott, and Don Keefer. Brolin is engaging as just the kind of hero we all need in a situation such as this, and Lloyd is endearing as the lady who has the temerity to taunt the car.The big action climax is very exciting; director Elliot Silverstein ("Cat Ballou") keeps this tale racing along just as the antagonist does. The Car itself does some pretty amazing things in order to ratchet up its body count, and the viewer is sure to have a good time watching it decrease the human population.Eight out of 10.