22. HIGHWAY TO HELL: A savage car chase is the vehicle for tonight’s viewing displeasure.
Directed by Eric Valette (the 2008 American remake of One Missed Call), this movie feels like a decade ahead of when it should have been made. It was written by Neal Marshall Stevens, who also writes a lot of movies for Full Moon as Roger Barron.
A shapeshifting car is on the streets of Chicago, going from a black Chevrolet Nova to a red Chevrolet Corvette Z06, luring in would-be criminals and then basically eating them and getting into accidents just to get impounded and murder policemen. It even becomes a 1968 Lincoln Continental with tentacles inside it that drag people into the interior.
The title is good, you know? But this is no Christine. It’s also no The Car, a movie that while one of the dumbest films ever created is one of my favorites and in my opinion, way better than U of M grad Steve King’s car movie.
All you need to know about how this movie was made is that the underground garage where it was shot wasn’t well-ventilated and the entire cast got sick.
You can watch this on Tubi.
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