The Car (Movie) and Smashing Drive (Game)

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So, I was watching The Car the other night and decided to check out IMDB afterwards. They had this nugget in the trivia section:

"An arcade video game machine called "Smashing Drive" features the car, painted as a New York taxi on a rampage in the city. The game's "attract mode" sequence begins with the car sitting on one of the stainless steel Deco eagles on the Chrysler Building, and then jumping off to the street below."

I took a look at the attract mode on YouTube and while there is a car on the roof that changes into a taxi, it doesn't seem to be the same body shape as The Car. But the transition to the taxi is so fast it is hard to tell.

Anyway, I thought this was an interesting link between a 1977 cult horror movie (starring James Brolin) and a fairly modern (2000) game. For the movie itself, the car is the star – totally bad ass with a fantastic Staccato horn (that it blows when running over bikers and hippies and other assorted town folk).
 
That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Seems so cheesy now. I actually watched it last month. I think it was Starz that had it On Demand.
 
The Car was a cool movie, but then Christine came along and made The Car look cheesy. It's a cool connection between an older movie and a newer game, one of the game designers must of been a fan of the movie.
 
I would still love to have a Barris Lincoln

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Oh yeah, that would be a very cool car to have. IMDB says that the main car used in the movie (there were three, two of which were destroyed during filming) was bought at an auction by a collector somewhere in Europe.

"That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Seems so cheesy now."

Yeah, this movie scared me too as a kid. When I watched it last night that was the first time I had seen it in probably 20 years. It is a bit cheesy, for sure. Another movie, I think, that fits the bill is Killdozer. Which is a movie about a killer bulldozer that came out around the same time, but I think was a made for TV movie.
 
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Oh yeah, that would be a very cool car to have. IMDB says that the main car used in the movie (there were three, two of which were destroyed during filming) was bought at an auction by a collector somewhere in Europe.

"That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Seems so cheesy now."

Yeah, this movie scared me too as a kid. When I watched it last night that was the first time I had seen it in probably 20 years. It is a bit cheesy, for sure. Another movie, I think, that fits the bill is Killdozer. Which is a movie about a killer bulldozer that came out around the same time, but I think was a made for TV movie.

I saw that one too... It hit a meteorite and got possessed. Only other part I remember is when the guy was hiding in the pipe and Killdozer was running over it.
 
I loved The Car when I first saw it in the theaters.

I figured that the Car and Killdozer inspired Stephen King to write films like Christine and Maximum overdrive.

Darren Harris
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They did a parody to that in one of the older seasons of Futurama. Called the werecar, like werewofl, anyways Bender changed into a car that looks exactly like that. I've never seen the movie "The Car", but its awesome to recognize that and realize what Matt was really doing with his show.
 
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