The devil on wheels
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The devil on wheels |
| Original title | The Car |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Elliot Silverstein |
| script |
Michael Butler , Dennis Shryack |
| production | Elliot Silverstein, Marvin Birdt |
| music | Leonard Rosenman |
| camera | Gerald Hirschfeld |
| cut | Michael McCroskey |
| occupation | |
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The Devil on Wheels is an American horror film from 1977 . Directed by Elliot Silverstein .
action
A mysterious black car shows up one day in the small town of Santa Ynez , Utah and runs over several people, including two cyclists and a hitchhiker. After Sheriff Everett is killed by the car, his assistant, Captain Wade Parent, has to try to restore order and stop the car. When the apparently driverless car attacks the sample for a street parade of the local school, the students and teachers, including Parents friend Lauren, flee to a cemetery, where the car apparently cannot follow them. Wade Parent tries to catch the gunman , but several police officers are killed again and the car escapes. After the car drove through the house Lauren was sitting in and killed her, the cop vows to take revenge. In the meantime, no human is suspected to be the driver of the car, but a supernatural force: the devil . With the help of a few colleagues and friends, Parent finally succeeds in setting the car in the canyons of Utah and blowing it up. The shadow of Satan's face appears in the cloud of explosion. Parent is the only one who refuses to the end, at least officially, to acknowledge that a supernatural force was involved.
criticism
The lexicon of international films : “Horror thrillers based on patterns from relevant devil horror films and in the tradition of Spielberg's film“ Duell ”, staged without ironic distance with unbelievable beer seriousness. Only if you have a lot of patience and survive the end credits will you find out that the evil in the form of the car is far from over. "
Chicago Reader's David Kehr describes the film as "silly and strangely limited".
The German film magazine Cinema describes it as a "badly aged B-film".
background
- The strip premiered in Germany on November 10, 1977.
- Anton LaVey , the founder of the Church of Satan , is featured in the credits as technical advisor .
- Most of the film was shot in the US state of Utah .
- The bad car in the movie was a converted Lincoln Continental Mark III that was rebuilt by George Barris for the film. Barris has u. a. also designed and built the Munster family car and the original Batmobile .
Web links
- The Car in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Car at Rotten Tomatoes (English)