The Car - THE Movie That Haunted My Childhood

I remember seeing this movie on TV when I was really young. It's a lot like Christine as it dealt with a possessed devil car that liked to run over people on foot, on bikes or while enjoying a nice, frosty beverage. No one was safe in that movie. There's one scene where a lady is in her house or trailer or something and she thinks "Hey! I'm in a house! That stupid car can't get me." and then the friggin' car CRASHED THROUGH THE WALL and ran her over. In her living room! Well, I'll tell you, after that, I didn't feel safe anywhere as a kid. I mean, after watching Jaws, I could even swim in my pool but at least I knew that I couldn't get eaten by a shark if I was in my room. Sh*t, there's NO WHERE to run from this damn car! You could hide on the roof but the car would just find a ramp or a really strong ladder and then its BLAMMO and you're stuck in the radiator! I didn't sleep very much when I was a kid, as you can imagine.


Mom and I walking to school.

My mom was a BIG fan of horror films so consequently I would watch them with her and then I would live with the paranoid results of those movies. I pretty much knew that I would either be run over by a demon car, dissolved by a blob or turned into a vampire or werewolf by the time I was 12.


Boo.

I also remember another TV movie from back in the early '80's called "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" that did a sufficient job of keeping me indoors for about a month after Halloween. It starred Larry Drake in the roll he seemed to be born to play, a mentally retarded guy. He's also known for playing... well... a mentally retarded guy on the television show "L.A. Law". I think he was also retarded in the movie "Dr. Giggles". But I'm pretty sure anyone in that movie was retarded. In the Scarecrow movie, he plays a retarded guy who is killed by townsfolk for a crime he didn't commit. Would you believe he comes back to exact revenge? Would you also believe he dresses up as a scarecrow to do it? It's pretty creepy, especially for a TV movie. I could be wrong, though. I was 9 when I saw it.