The Car

And when it was time to go to bed, suddenly every little noise in the house meant something.

Today, we're revisiting some of the horror and science fiction movies from the 1970s that left their mark on us, including Embryo, Phantasm, Halloween, Carrie... salem's lot alien invasion of the body snatchers don't be afraid of the dark piranha black e la trilogy of terror and of course we have to talk about jaws the exorcist the omen and the car we're going to talk about what made these movies so disturbing why some of them still hold up and why the horror movies of that era hit differently so sit back have a seat get comfortable turn down the lights if you dare and let's take a trip to the decade that gave us some serious nightmares and if you're listening to this alone in the dark well that's between you and whatever you think you heard in the hallway Let's get into it.

Let's start with the movie that scared the hell out of me, Embryo, released in 1976.

Now this isn't necessarily the first title that comes up when people start listing their favorite horror movies, but I remember this one because it genuinely frightened me.

it is not a casual little ghost story then we have the omen released in nineteen seventy six this film follows husband american diplomat robert thorne played by gregory peck and his wife catherine played by lee remick whose infant son dies at birth thorne is convinced by the hospital chaplain to adopt another newborn whose mother died during childbirth that same night he doesn't tell katherine about the switch as time goes on damien appears to be connected to something much more sinister than anyone initially understood we have random people dying all over the place and a hell-hound rottweiler that refuses to leave the idea of evil hiding behind the face of an innocent child is unsettling on its own then we find out he's the antichrist But the film builds that dread gradually using strange events, disturbing discoveries, and a growing sense that something terrible is unfolding.

The Omen definitely provides the jumps and scares that allow it to remain a classic.

And finally, we have The Car, released in 1977.

It stars James Brolin as Sheriff Wade Parent and Catherine Boyd as schoolteacher Lauren and Wade's girlfriend.

But it's an older one.

It's called The Car.

It's about a haunted Lincoln Continental.

And it chases people around.

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And I want to talk about a film that I saw back in the 60s when I was about 11 years old.

And it was called Carnival of Souls.

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Today, we're going to talk about the 1977 film The Car, which is a horror movie.

But before that, I thought it

was a documentary.

about their techniques, though.

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The movie we watched, The Car.

The Car.

Anyway, before we start and go all Stephen King, can you tell us all about some of your more recent podcasts? I particularly enjoyed your Sean Rowe one, but there's been a few others since then.

Yes, I've had Sean Rowe talking about the music to Frontier Crucible, which I think I've talked about at the end of last year as one of my films of the year, which is a really great Western.

Well, I've had Oscar winning director Kevin MacDonald on talking about The Runner, his Gal Gadot film.

I've had another sort of Western short film maker on, Robert Camperl.

Talking about a couple of little Western films that he's made, which were very visually impressive.

I had Danny Stewart, who delves into cult films with his books.

He did the making of Soldier.

He's done one on Salute of the Jugger and the Russell Mackay Dolph Lundgren film Silent Trigger.

Yeah.

Oh, another good one that I love to watch is The Car.

The Car?

The Car.

It's from the 1970s.

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yes we're of course referring to it lives again the sequel to it's alive larry cohen is one of my favorite filmmakers i love me some larry cohen this is a larry cohen film you know it's

it's larry cohen you're right uh he always manages to just get the most out of whatever he does you know uh like whether it be a movie like this whether it be a movie you know that shows off grimy new york i mean like he just gets everything out of what he can what he does right yeah

and he always and he always makes it entertaining

That was her in that movie.

Yeah, so a lot of solid actors.

So this is, as we said, this is a sequel to the film It's Alive.

It's Alive was about a couple that gave birth to a monster baby.

What did I watch? Let's look back at Letterboxd, shall we? Okay, what do we got here? All right.

So what did I watch? How about fuck you? How about what did I watch this weekend, okay? I watched "The Car" from 1977 starring James, uh, Brolin, Josh Brolin's, you know, father.

And it is really cool, man.

Uh, highly recommend it.

It's kind of like "Duel" and "Jaws" had a, uh, like a B movie child, and that's kind of what "The Car" is.

It's, you know, a demonic car movie, and it's really well-made in a B movie, you know, way.

It's very well-made.

So underrated, and, uh, so u- underused, yeah.

Well, and as Mike pointed out to me, I- it feels like, it feels like the Weinsteins did their usual...

They were very notorious for taking films away from filmmakers and re-editing them.

It feels very choppy.

It-