EDITOR’S NOTE: Wheels of Terror was on USA Up All Night on February 12, 1994.

Directed by Christopher Cain, the director of The Next Karate Kid, Pure Country and Gone Fishin’ — as well as the father of Dean — and written by Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers writer Alan B. McElroy, this movie is all about the unseen driver of a primer-colored Dodge Charger who is kidnapping, assaulting and murdering young women in Arizona.

Laura (Joanna Cassidy) has just moved to Copper Valley from Los Angeles to raise her daughter Stephanie (Marcie Leeds) in a safer environment. Except, you know, that car drifting around like a shark wiping out young women the same age as her daughter.

She gets a job as a bus driver and the town starts locking itself up after one of Stephanie’s friends, Kim, is found dead, the victim of the car. It goes even further — I say it as we don’t see the driver — and kidnaps Stephanie leading to a bus against sportscar chase that finds a motorcycle cop get obliterated.

This movie understands something that The Car also did. If you want to stop a killer car with an unseen driver, you need to blow it up.