The Car: Road to Revenge

Fans of the original cult classic 1970's 'The Car' , do not bother with this movie.

The premise is silly, and the costumes are great, which is usually what I like to see coming into a movie like this.

Unfortunately, it didn't get quite as crazy as it needed to be to make up for the script, and the story didn't track very well.

If you like B-horror flicks, this one feels really middle of the road (to revenge), and I'd skip it to roll the dice on another movie.

This would make for a good "background movie" if you're just hoping to catch the couple crazy moments, and appreciate some of the apocalypse gear.

The thing about the original 1977 movie, what made it both scary and compelling, was that you never got to know why the car was killing people, it just did it. And they weren't bad people either, they were just ordinary people doing ordinary things, and you were introduced to them as such before the car killed them.

By setting up this film as a conventional revenge-from-the-grave story with stereotypical goth-clown villains and what we're allowed to assume is an AI-controlled car (which doesn't even look intimidating), all of that is lost. When the possibility of a supernatural explanation is introduced mid-way through, it's too late - at that point, the audience rightly sees that car as little more than a means of advancing the ho-hum murder-revenge plot-line. It's not scary enough in itself to take over the movie, like the original car did.

People will say, "it's a low-budget film, so don't have such high expectations," but the original film had a lower budget than this one, even in 1977 dollars, and it's considered a modern horror classic. There were good, creative ideas behind it which this one just doesn't have.

It is simply unwatchable with grade Z-rated acting and a flat dialogue. Don't waste your time watching this show unless you like a dull movie that offer no entertainment value.

I imagine anyways, someone did wayyyy too much blow and then wrote this screenplay...and then maybe blackmailed someone in order to actually get it made. I dunno, something along those lines CAUSE IT SURE AS HELL HAS NOTHING TO SO WITH IT BEING A GOOD MOVIE.