I saw The Car on TV as a kid and had trouble sleeping for weeks. I kept thinking it would drive through my bedroom. As an adult, I still find some scenes unnerving. The Car is most terrifying to me because it is just mindless evil with no back story. Christine is still a great movie and book.
Let me put it this way: If you see "Christine" driving down the street, you'll go, "Wow, a Plymouth Fury just like the movie's, Awesome!" If you see "The Car", you'll go "I think I'll take the long route home".
@@Günther_the_Vehicon to be fair, that’s either because 1. He sat in her driver seat, which can either be an attempt to own her or she really doesn’t like it when the spot meant for Arnie is taken by someone else Or 2. It might’ve been subtle, Darnell must’ve realized that Christine is capable of driving herself, in short: found out her secret, so she had to silence him She doesn’t just kill who hurts her owner, she kills whoever disrespects her, and most of all she kills who could end up tearing her away from arnie
Dude .... the moment when our protagonist realizes he's not alone in that garage and snaps around to find 'The Car' quietly parked behind him , still gives me the shivers . Just that scene makes it a classic . No remake could ever repeat it . 👍
Yep I remember the first time I saw that scene because it scared me pretty good. The other scene that got me was when the Car jumped through the house to kill Lauren.
@@Wildstar40 Lauren annoyed the car, and she had to go. The same with those cyclists. People often speak as if The Car was behaving unreasonably - I can't see that myself!!
The sound dept in that movie did a stellar job with The Car. It could be as quiet as an EV or as noisy as a top fuel dragster. In that scene, it starts off menacingly quiet, the it turns on as a quiet low frequency hum, then when it charges him, it sounds like open pipes. Then when it backs up to taunt him again, it's quiet as an EV again, with the tires rolling actually making more noise than the engine. Pure genius sound editing.
When I was about 13, back in the mid-seventies, I was offered an old '58 Plymouth Hardtop with a 318 and a push-button auto for $700 Aussie dollars. I raced home and begged my father for a loan. But I was denied.
😭 Yep, my father denying me a loan for a $500 USD '76 Triumph Spitfire in the later 80s was sad for me. A classmate was selling it and it ran great and got HIM to school and back, but my dad had other ideas.
Maybe if your name were Arnie.....but yea, I feel your pain...I went through the same situation with a 69 SS 396 Chevelle for $900.00....I'm still hurting over 40 years later.
I'm old enough to have seen The Car in the theater. Then caught it on TV whenever I could. For me it's not about the story. The car just looks incredible.
I agree! Cars like "Christine" rolled of an assembly line, but "The Car" was a custom built vehicle which, for me, makes it much cooler looking! Don't get me wrong, I have always loved Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth products! I've owned them and worked for the company, but when it comes to movie cars, there's nothing quite like "The Car, Batmobile, Munsters Koach or The Monkeemobile!" Cars like these are interesting and different than your everyday, assembly line vehicles! Love them!
Loved the engine sound track as a kid, still do! Cars were the stars of movies, TV shows back then. Most always had a good car chase scene car culture was still common in most households back then.
I was really frightened as a kid for "The Car", and still am, but not that much. The way it honks, the way it looks and the things it does, it just scares me.
back then they were turning everything into a horror. house hold object's insects humans don't count cause that is a stable animals plants weather an so fourth.
I LOVE both movies!!! But, what has ALWAYS stuck with me about The Car is going through the house!!! That's just soooooooo many different kinds of f'ed up!!! 🤯🤪🤣
To me the appearance of the car isn’t really scary, it just looks like a big bath tub. And that horn sounds more comical than scary to my ear. Does anyone remember a made for TV movie called Wheels of Terror? That was a lot better than The Car but not as good as Christine.
Excellent video as always from this channel! One minor point is that in the book "Christine", the odometer moving backwards is really heavily highlighted when Christine is being moved around and repairing herself, as far as I am aware from several discussions of the book it's not that she's actually repairing herself, but more that driving/moving her "turns back the clock" to when she was new again. If I recall correctly there was one paragraph in the book not long after Arnie buys her where it describes that her restoration appeared haphazard and random, but you can see how it may describe things being fixed "in order of decay" if you read it. It's still supernatural, just probably wouldn't work that well on film.
Yes I agree the book about Christine is way better than the movie the thing about a self repairing car is such an awesome concept I would put up with her evilness just because it can fix itself and all I have to do is put fuel in it I would put my hand on her like Arnie did and caress her metal body
I love them both. The car was sinister and evil. Vary sadistic feel, like when it chases the kid on the bike and sends him over the edge of the overpass. Where as Christine is protective and vengeful. Has an intoxicating effect on certain people. Christine gets my vote for her ability to rebuild herself even after being run over by a bull dozer or ran through a metal compactor 😁
The Car is a straight-up psychopath, but Christine is a murderous yandere who would kill anyone to keep her owner safe and maintain her succubus-like influence over him.
Christine is set apart from The Car for obvious reasons. But I praise both films for how they equally gave the best in the supernaturally driven cars genre. Thank you for your video essay.
I’d argue that Christine is more terrifying, because she’s not just a car that runs people over, but messes with the head of the person who “owns” her. There is a sadness with Artie’s fate, that not everything he became was evil, but that the obsession drove him beyond redemption.
I think The Car is scarier, it's sorta like Michael Myers, because in the end The Car never died, it escaped after all, driving through Los Angeles in the credits
Barris’ shop built three of ‘em from wrecked Lincoln’s. A friend in a San Diego suburb bought the survivor and put it in a small museum, rigged to remote start. Very effective!
@@timmyrehanek9576 after over thirty years I have no idea of where the car might be. The buyer was Bob Butts, of FANTASY CARS in Santee California. Bob passed some years ago, so who knows?
For decades the horn of "The Car" was something unique. I used to work with radio and morse code and never connected the two. When you said that, my jaw dropped in amazement like Wyle E Coyote in the Road Runner Show.
I change my answer because I seen some of the clips... It is actually "TU", not "X"... There is a gap between the first long dash and then two dots and a dash. This is why I never caught it. also note it was playing many dots meaning error
The car, was both action, and horror. Them people were getting their asses kicked, during the day! The hell, with the unexpected! Here I come , EM EFFERS!!
Yeah Christine doesn’t look scary initially which is part of the point, The Car on the other hand makes no pretense at being owned or driven by anybody, it doesn’t even have door handles.
Oooh... Great bar topic... My head says Christine but my heart says The Car. Gonna give it to The Car. It's the one I'll never get tired of watching. Great video!
@@strangeluck Dont know if it still exists today. It was kept around for ahwile would turn up here/there but seems to have vanished. Happens to a lot of movie cars .They get old forgotten about junked etc
Filmmaker and horror movie fan Guillermo del Toro owns the one remaining "The Car." He once said he only brings it out for an occasional Sunday drive to the ice cream stand.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions I was going to ask if you could maybe make a video about a Death Battle Between these two cars I would love to see I will sub you if you could
I have enjoyed both movies but, I'm partial to The Car. I was 14 & saw The Car on opening night - Friday, May 13, 1977. It was awesome. I was more fascinated with the physical & mechanical attributes of The Car which set the tone of how I built my first car - stance, powerplant, tires, etc.
This reminds me of another movie that didn't possess just a car, but everything with a motor in it, including electric ones: Maximum Overdrive! And a car possessed not by a demon, but by a revenge seeking ghost: The Wraith.
That was also a Stephen King book turned film. In fact, that was the one and only film Stephen ever directed himself. Obviously the film bombed pretty badly and this was during the time when he was at an all time high of substance abuse (ie cocaine, etc).
@@ShiftyKen08 It's a very strange name for a Rolls Royce or any car. The car itself would have made this movie a winner. It is a scary good looking ghost of a car. Someone at RR liked this movie 🤗
@@andykerr3803 iirc The Wraith was a pace car, made very fancy for shows So it fit perfect for the film,, and it's a WAY overlooked classic B movie, too :)
"The Car" seemed familiar. Turns out that in the were-car episode of Futurama, Bender transforms into the same car, only with a silver paint job, when he goes on his nightly rampages. Very funny in retrospect.
Between the two, it's definitely The Car. Although Christine is more famous and is a great, more haunted killer car, something about The Car is more terrifying and powerful. We never know where it came from, there's no driver, it has a semi truck horn and Nascar-like V8, and most of all, it's INDESTRUCTIBLE. All this makes it very horrifying and underrated as the predecessor killer car to Christine. The Car is the King in my book, with Christine being close second.
Also its very much implied to be satanic in nature, with its inability to enter hallowed ground(the graveyard) and the visuals of the ending explosion.
I watched ‘The Car’ last night and I really enjoyed it. The bit where he is in the garage and he turns round to see it parked there was a very creepy scene. You don’t get great scenes like that anymore in modern films. I think I prefer it to Christine overall but they are both classics.
I was actually the lucky owner of a red Plymouth Fury {paid $300 for it from the original owner} just like Christine when I was 16 in 1982 a year before the movie came out & after that nobody would ride with me any more...lol! I loved hearing those dual quad 4 barrels open up when you floored it! Unfortunately in 1984 a drunk driver ran a red light & Tboned me & she wasnt able to pull herself together so off to the scrapyard it went ✌💖☮
My godness! This is the saddest story i read this week. I can't imagine it! This is a very beautifull car. Almost every car made before the oil crisis were gorgeous. I would have anyone o them. They really knew how to create vehicles. Today everything is friend of the wind and the economy. But everything else were left behind and i don't think this is the right way. The world is more black and white now.
@@a.thiago3842 ITs gone backwards, everything is more and more generic boring and look alike. EVs will be the same/similar chassis with differnet bodies. Not much different than bodied go cars in the 70s
"The Car" is definitely the most notorious horror mechanical monster. "Christine" gives a more psychological view of evil transformation on the driver and evil machine combined. That's why "Christine" is the most popular gorgeous (and sinister) classic car movie.
I first watched the car in 1980 on TV and I fell in love with it. I have the original wheels magazine print ad, the Aussie daybill poster and the 1:18 scale die cast model. Christine is a superb film and I have it on laserdisc and VHS to this day. Thanks for doing a video on these two great films. Jaws, duel and the car - forever universal films kin
The story, or lack thereof, left "The Car" with lots of room for both sequels and prequels. This is interesting timing as Hollywood had not caught the "let's make a sequel" bug in 1977. During the credits for the movie is some "extra" footage that was shot in what is fairly obviously an urban environment (I think it was LA) that, if you take it as meaning anything, could imply that the Car either survived or re-incarnated itself.
Christine (1958 Plymouth Fury) is a beautiful car but its not scary. The Car (1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III) is extremely scary and sinister looking. Even the sound of the engine will terrify you. So The Car deserves the crown 100%
Nah Christine is more terrifying and here's why you don't have your guard up against Christine so you don't expect to be killed The Car on the other hand because of it's appearance and engine you instantly on full guard
@@FrankKnight8846 i beg to differ. Christine blends in really well with the others while the car isn't. if your in a city, goodluck even knowing that random beauty you spotted is actually a haunted car. The car however, is very easy to identify once the results would come out, doesn't help IT DOESN'T blend well with the rest of the civillian cars while christine does.
I cannot pick just one when you have both my favorites competing against each other. I love them both equally. Be great to see both in a double feature together at a drive-in but which one do you air first?
Sure Christine is terrifying. But she had reasons behind her attacks. The Car was a true demon, it attacked whatever and was tough as hell. I'd be much more scared of The Car.
The Car - Jaws on land. But was effective to me as a kid. Demon car that just looks scary and appears out in the mysterious desert town. Christine - not exactly as scary to me (saw it at the cinema upon release) but was cool and mysterious as well. The self-restoration scene was and remains super cool. But both movies have the victims run down the middle of the road when chased by a car bent on killing them. Even then it would make us laugh.
One of the scariest things about The Car, isn't what you see, it's what you hear. Imagine you're driving down a loooooooooong stretch of road, and you haven't seen another car for an hour. Suddenly, waaaaaay off in the distance, so faint you can't even tell where it's coming from, you hear the horn from The Car. Now, The Car vs Christine, has to go to The Car. The Car can't be damaged. Christine can be destroyed and undo the damage, but she needs to back off and take a minute. If The Car won't stop the attack, Christine can't regenerate and there goes the fight.
I grew up on "the car" and had nightmares about it. There was just something about it to me was more scary and supernatural. It was like u weren't safe anywhere. In ur house. Ur garage, the mountains. The police station. No where. Lol
To me it's The Car hands down tinted windows and all. The windows were the key like no one could be seen inside and the demon coming out of the flames at the end.
[warning spoilers] for a movie made in 1977. The scene where Wade is working in his garage and then looks up feeling something isn't right before turning around to reveal the car is already behind him in his locked garage is actually surprisingly well done I thought. It's great because it subverts expectations. It's written as and clearly plays out as a "jump scare" moment, but it doesn't immediately do anything. It just sits there. It's almost as if the car is waiting and allowing Wade to take in the full gravity of the situation. Once it feels that Wade has fully had time to process what's going on It plays with him for a few moments blocking his escape. Once again it allows time for Wade to digest that it has no intention of letting him leave then it attacks. I also like the scene where we clearly know the car is somewhere in the immediate vicinity of the house. We can hear it. Then we can see it but know that she's safe in her living room. I honestly didn't expect what happened next during my first viewing. For horror movie hero, Wade acts mostly rationally regarding the threat. Ronnie Cox certainly does a serviceable job as the alcoholic deputy. Eddie, Littlesky adds a friendly but still somber tone to the movie as Chaz. And RJ Armstrong. He is clearly one of the movie's villains. He is portrayed as an abusive and violent man. He gets no comeuppance whatsoever. As a matter of fact, at the end he's one of the movie's heroes. It's not even commented on. Maybe having seen what he has he will change his ways but we don't know. The movie certainly takes no position on this. All in all, That's a pretty bleak little plot point that the movie doesn't even comment on. Like it's just a part of life. I don't know if they intended for that to happen, but it still fits 1970s horror or for that matter 1970s drama pretty well. Anyway, despite some of its cheese I like The Car.
I never saw 'The Car', or at least, I don't remember seeing it. However, I read 'Christine', and saw the movie a few times. Ironically, I never made the connection to that '58 Plymouth that I had the option to buy back in the mid-seventies. On another note, a friend of mine in the late 70s owned a 1960 Chrysler Royal AP3. He raised and extended the rear quarter panel fins to give them a more Plymouth look. The Royals were Frankenstein cars based on the Plymouth P25.
The Car will always be more scary than Christine for the fact it was indiscriminately malicious. It didn't care you were or what you did. It just wanted to kill or terrorize you. Plus The Car looks very intimidating. Christine only ever hurt those who got in her or Arnie's wa. If you didn't involve yourself with those people. You were very unlikely to even see it in action
I like both but it would have to be Christine for me. Ever since I first seen Christine I have wanted a 58 Plymouth. I also like watching the sequences of her repairing herself and just the personality she has. I also just think Christine is the better movie. My Mom has a story of when her aunt took her and my aunt to go see it because they thought it was like Herbie😂
For the same reason I choose The Car. I've wanted that modded Continental Mk3 ever since I saw Bender transform into it in Futurama. I only even know the movie exists because of that episode and I just adore custom one off vehicle total conversion mods like that. Just wish they'd kept the garage door headlight covers the Mk3 and Mk4 were famous for.
@@vladyvhv9579 Christine was a bad version of Herbie. If they were husband and wife Herbie would be the soft hearted husband and Christine would be the evil controlling abusive wife.
Without hesitation I'd go with Christine, especially considering the fact there is a real-life Christine of sorts. An early '60s Dodge with an alleged body count of 14, it's a New England urban legend Stephen King must have heard numerous times while growing up in Maine, which must have played a part in him writing the novel. Bedtime Stories has a great video on it called "The Curse of the Golden Eagle" for those interested.
Great video! I watched both movies, in the theater, when they came out. Christine was probably the better movie, but The Car is the car I would buy and drive around. So damned cool!
I don't think Christine was an evil car by itself. Jealous? Yes. Revengeful? Definetely. But Christine didn't look to have 'kill everyone' goal. Anyway, you don't want to see that Plymouth Fury when it's in fury!
Christine all day long Both are awesome though 6:56 tr6 8:27 on the first karr episode on knight rider this is the scene they use for a second when karr jumps off the cliff
I watched it as kid when I used to live in Brazil , the Brazilian cinema translated it to “ A máquina do diabo “ “ the devil’s machine “ this movie absolutely terrified me as a kid , I had nightmares, now it’s a absolutely classic! I love both but nothing can top The car in evil looks and sound , Barris was the movie car master , I meet George Barris in 2015 in Sydney car expo I gave him a drawn caricature of him driving the bat mobile and he was really nice to me and made me feel really good and he kept looking at the cartoon in the glass frame and saying I am really touched by the kindness of the Australian people thank you so much , man he was loved in Australia 🇦🇺 Barris also was the judge for the best cars on display at Car Expo and lots of Barris cars was at the show it was insanely awesome i took a plane to Sydney from South Australia cos I knew it was once of a lifetime chance to meet George Barris , and not long after that I found out he passed away !
Easily, 'The Car'. That movie scared me as a child. The atmosphere and environment was a huge part of what made the movie scary. Isolation, the vast unknown with no escape, and not knowing when or where the protagonist would appear to eliminate another town victim, only to learn at the end the true nature of the vehicle. Christine wasn't scary at all. While it attempted to be a psychological thriller, it didn't quite make the connection for me. There was something primal about The Car. To actually feel the fear emanating from the characters as they were being stalked by the evil manifestation. It was tangible and almost plausible. Christine, not so much. Kinda campy to me.
the problem i had with the car movies is i found they try ot be edgy while christine literally has you believing someone is driving it i remembered the first time i watched christine in 2016 i thought that billy was the one killing then i saw her driving while he was no where near her and that put me on the edge of my seat like oh shit its actually possesed and yea Christine also shows how some people change when they get a car they love
Really enjoyed this. And I have to say, I've never even heard of The Car. Bloody love Duel and Christine though so I will be watching The Car pronto! Thanks for bringing it up. Weird how the often under appreciated films end up as cult classics isn't it. Most of John Carpenter's films are like that, including his timeless gem The Thing 😊😉
Horror Crown?? The Car, would be my choice, now both cars are killers but " the car" at the end we see that physical manifestation of the Demon with the mouth with fangs and fire spitting tongue. End of story.Christine we don't actually see the demon's actual physicality, although one could say that "Arnie" was transformed into a demon- like entity, but we never see the real demon possessing both Christine and Arnie simultaneously.Thank you great vid, great content
Both cars look fantastic. The Plymouth fury hides its sinister side more under that stunning fins and chrome skin , where as the Lincoln Continental or tye Car , just looks evil Maybe it the Car was made around the same time as Christine it would be a much tougher contest . I love both films lve got them both on DVD aswell as the film with Dennis Weaver in Duel , classic suspense horror films . I think Chritine is tte better film , but the Car , the Lincoln Continental was a much more evil..... ld love to see a film of a possessed or Demonic wrecking truck . I actually had a 1/64 model from a sketch l did made of a Wrecking truck called Ol' Blue , that becomes possesed after its owner is brutally murdered , and the wrecking truck seeks revenge ....
I'd go for Christine myself as I own one (although a 4dr hardtop). Although 1 really big downside of the car is it's small interior space. I'm not tall at all but I've got the front bench set all the way back and I still have too less legroom
While I fell in love with Christine the first time I watched the movie, the Car scared the shit out of me. I refused for months to walk in front of parked cars, especially at night, thinking that their lights would flick on, and I’d hear that evil horn right before the scream of a V8… I always thought the credits of the Car teased an urban sequel, with a sportier Car hunting down any pedestrian in it’s path. Shame we never got that
great video!...as a young kid in the early 80s, i've always had a soft spot for the Nova Sterling GT and the Porsche 935 in "Condorman" (1981)...yes it's a cheesy Disney flick, but the car chase is awesome! :D
Cheers for. That. Have to admit, I have a soft spot for that film and car. Had the movie on tape as a kid and watched it over and over again. Plus it came out the year I was born, so it gets extra points. One could say Disney was ahead of its time with a comic book movie set in the real world. Though as an adult watching it, it is flawed and not often sure what it wants to be in its tone. And Michael Crawford trying to do an American accent is cringy at times. But it's all part of its charm.
I loved the fact that they had a few Camaros thrown in the chase, too. Maybe a different chase, but I know for sure there were some later-70s Camaros driven by bad guys involved in chasing Condorman.
My top pick is the car, it had a menus about it and it looked evil, I loved it. It was different than any other horror film at the time, I still love that movie.
I might add, a demon car movie that is fun is Crash (1977). A seriously low budget, straight to drive-in's, movie. But it has the coolest driverless '67 convertible Camaro. You can see that there is truly no one driving the car in several scenes.
I definitely have to go with Christine Definitely one of the best horror movies of all time I thought it was pretty cool using the car as a killer instead of a human being it's a lot more interesting that's for sure growing up around all the cars made it even better the 58 Fury is such a beautiful car that's for sure?
I'd have to agree. As a long-time horror fan, I just find The Car to be one of those "It's ok for a B movie, but I wouldn't bother watching it again" movies. Christine is one that I go back to often.
For about 30 years now I been trying to figure out hoe they did the SFX in 'Christine', where the Plymouth repairs itself. (I assume it's probably reversed film, of the fixed car being deformed. But I still don't know how they did the deforming) Edit- Hey! Well done tracking that info down. Ialways pictured cables, rather than hydraulics but... now I know. Good stuff.
I thought they did some of the scenes with air pressure to inflate the damaged metal I'm not swearing to that but I was around when the movie was new I don't mean that they inflated metal I thought it was a big plastic balloon possibly
Lots of interior substructures connected to pulleys and lots exterior controls. I worked with movie car providers for a while… where there’s a will there’s a way if there’s a check waiting.
I'll throw in my two cents as to why The Car takes the lead . # 1, Everyone is enamored with the 'strong silent type' ! Sure when it honked it's horn it sounded like it was laughing as it enjoyed tormenting and killing it's victim , but that's it ! It didn't flip through the radio stations and all this to put you in mood to what it was thinking or feeling ! Once you heard that horn you knew , "it's your ass" ! "Less is more" & in order to preserve the mystique of the 'who what were how & why' of The Car , this works greatly ! # 2, The Car was not compromising & didn't have a relationship ! She didn't allow for anybody have a relationship with her ! There wasn't anything you could do to appease her , or to make her happy ( aside from being murdered by her . ) you couldn't worship her , you couldn't bribe her , you couldn't reason with her.......effectively , it was a sadistic Terminator ! And 'yes' as a kid in the early 80's I saw The Car and Carrie and I'm here to tell you that The Car scared to shit out of me 'and' kept my interest from beginning to end ! Even the music was fascinating , where as Carrie.......it was 'good' but as a little kid I lost my interest several times during the movie and now as an adult I think if I should go back and watch it I would be like , " get to the fucking point ! " Let's see some action here !!!
I simply cannot pick. I have loved Christine since it came out. I think 58 Plymouths were /are gorgeous and Christine is sinister in that movie. I have also loved The Car since I was a boy. I owned a Mark III for 15 years, so the George Barris treatment really resonates with me. I think Christine is prettier, the Car is more terrifying, and both are worthy of the crown..
Always loved The Car! Christine was great, but of course book was better and I expected a little more. Got to see the actual car at Universal studios. How can I that t-shirt? I don't see it on website.
I saw the trailer for "The Car" at the cinema when I was ten years old, and it truly scared me. But I couldn't see the movie because I had to be at least 12 to be allowed in the theater. In the early eighties, the movie was broadcast on television and I recorded it on a Betamax tape. I wasn't disappointed. I enjoyed it a lot, but I remember being very upset because the entire final chase looked very dark on TV and it was very hard to see what was happening (contrast and brightness controls didn't help much).
The Car was at Universal in an outside parking lot in the back lot until 1984 when they remodeled the back lot and rearranged everything. Then it disappeared. It was parked next to Columbos car. A few yards away between two sets sat the little flying saucer that Blair was building in secret from the movie The Thing. That also disappeared in 1984. Who knows where they are today. I bet the flying saucer was scrapped. That might have been the fate of The Car and Columbos car?? Who knows. My favorite is hard to call but I guess it has to be The Car. I just couldn't stand James Brolins girl friend in the movie and was so glad that The Car drove through the house and killed her. And it was a really good scene. Also, the horn is iconic. Christine is bad ass too.
We watched this as we had The Car in our suggestion list and having watched a few clips found it interesting. We had never heard of it but liked the idea. Plus, it looks really cool. I have seen the film Christine twice, but my husband hasn't, but he has read the book and I haven't but love it for each version. For both of us, both are really cool cars and the idea of what they are is very interesting. You never get to know exactly what they are or how they came to be.
Christine,even at the end of the film,the car started to take shape again,the trim straightened out!! So,its cruising around today..The other one is finished!
2:03 can we give credit to the stunt man/woman who jumped off that frikkin bridge? 5:38 that would be Robert Blossoms. You should check him out in *Escape from Alcatraz* (where *The Prisoner* himself plays the prison warden) and a film called *Deranged (1974)* 9:00 it might be a replica, but Guillermo Del Toro has one in his house museum.
Thanks for the vid, it's a good one, Christine for me, but always wondered why Christine was in such a bad state when Arnie bought her and why she didn't just repair herself, maybe a prequel will come out one day that shows Christines early life?
Cheers. It's a plothole, or became one once they removed Roland LeBay and the need to push Christine to repair herself. In the book, he was just too old and he back ruined to push her. In the movie now, one could argue with Roland dead, she just let herself go.
I can't get into Steven King's mind, but looking at the way things played out, Christine is like an obsessed lover. If they have nobody to focus on, they go dormant, become moody etc. The moment someone pays them some attention, they come alive and for better or worse, the obsession grows until one or both are dead. Christine returns Arnie's affection by restoring her beauty, with his help, and then systematically kills off any antagonist and almost kills his non-automotive love interest.
I seen the CAR at the movie theater back in the day when it first came out. I really enjoyed it. I too had seen CHRISTINE when it first came out. Which is my fave? I'll never tell.
As a fan of both films. I think they both earn a to place but for didn't reasons. The Car was evil. Purely evil. It didn't kill for revenge. So as horror goes I give it the nod. Tell me you didn't jump when Brolin turns around in the garage to see The Car sitting there in wait. And that horn with the engine revving. Chills everytime. Christine was about a young man and his possessed car. Yes the car had a maniacal side, but it was really about revenge. Arnie and Christine against the world. And we knew time was running out for both by watching the odometer count backwards. Tell me you didn't feel bad for Arnie when he reaches out to Christine for the last time.
I enjoyed both movies, and the included Duel Truck. I do prefer Christine over The Car simply because the Characters and story really help Christine kind of take on a personality of her own. You can't help but love her look and the amazing practical effects. Great video my friend.. you earned a sub and thumbs up from this guy. 👍
My Dad had a 1973 Eldorado and the horn in that car sounded the same as the Cars horn !! It was actually 4 horns and it came from the factory that way !
I think the soundtrack of Christine was awesome highlighted some supernatural intelligence/primitive communication between Christine and the audience and other human players in the movie. The music from her radio was ominous and accurate to what was happening in the scene. Perfectly suspenseful.
I saw The Car on TV as a kid and had trouble sleeping for weeks. I kept thinking it would drive through my bedroom. As an adult, I still find some scenes unnerving. The Car is most terrifying to me because it is just mindless evil with no back story. Christine is still a great movie and book.
The car was just evil
@@dayjay9819and those horns were badass, I need those now ! 😆
The Car was the first and last movie to actually scare me as a kid.Nothing has come close to giving me night mares like The Car.
I used to have dreams trains would go thru my room
Let me put it this way: If you see "Christine" driving down the street, you'll go, "Wow, a Plymouth Fury just like the movie's, Awesome!" If you see "The Car", you'll go "I think I'll take the long route home".
Ha ha ha.
You will probably think the same thing when u realize theres no one in the drivers seat in christine 😳
@@devranali2219 yeah but Christine only killed Arnie’s bullies while the Car kills anyone on sight
@@astrochaos4182 including Darnell
@@Günther_the_Vehicon to be fair, that’s either because
1. He sat in her driver seat, which can either be an attempt to own her or she really doesn’t like it when the spot meant for Arnie is taken by someone else
Or 2. It might’ve been subtle, Darnell must’ve realized that Christine is capable of driving herself, in short: found out her secret, so she had to silence him
She doesn’t just kill who hurts her owner, she kills whoever disrespects her, and most of all she kills who could end up tearing her away from arnie
Dude .... the moment when our protagonist realizes he's not alone in that garage and snaps around to find 'The Car' quietly parked behind him , still gives me the shivers . Just that scene makes it a classic . No remake could ever repeat it . 👍
I’m right with you on that.
Definitely, especially when it had a LOUD engine.
Yep I remember the first time I saw that scene because it scared me pretty good. The other scene that got me was when the Car jumped through the house to kill Lauren.
@@Wildstar40 Lauren annoyed the car, and she had to go. The same with those cyclists. People often speak as if The Car was behaving unreasonably - I can't see that myself!!
The sound dept in that movie did a stellar job with The Car. It could be as quiet as an EV or as noisy as a top fuel dragster. In that scene, it starts off menacingly quiet, the it turns on as a quiet low frequency hum, then when it charges him, it sounds like open pipes. Then when it backs up to taunt him again, it's quiet as an EV again, with the tires rolling actually making more noise than the engine. Pure genius sound editing.
When I was about 13, back in the mid-seventies, I was offered an old '58 Plymouth Hardtop with a 318 and a push-button auto for $700 Aussie dollars. I raced home and begged my father for a loan. But I was denied.
😭 Yep, my father denying me a loan for a $500 USD '76 Triumph Spitfire in the later 80s was sad for me. A classmate was selling it and it ran great and got HIM to school and back, but my dad had other ideas.
I wish they were that much now.
I know that was a sad day! I love those 58 Furys.
@@kevinhughes9200 Yup i love them
Maybe if your name were Arnie.....but yea, I feel your pain...I went through the same situation with a 69 SS 396 Chevelle for $900.00....I'm still hurting over 40 years later.
I'm old enough to have seen The Car in the theater. Then caught it on TV whenever I could. For me it's not about the story. The car just looks incredible.
I agree! Cars like "Christine" rolled of an assembly line, but "The Car" was a custom built vehicle which, for me, makes it much cooler looking!
Don't get me wrong, I have always loved Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth products! I've owned them and worked for the company, but when it comes to movie cars, there's nothing quite like "The Car, Batmobile, Munsters Koach or The Monkeemobile!" Cars like these are interesting and different than your everyday, assembly line vehicles! Love them!
just don't turn on the radio!@@derricklogan2058
Loved the engine sound track as a kid, still do! Cars were the stars of movies, TV shows back then. Most always had a good car chase scene car culture was still common in most households back then.
I was really frightened as a kid for "The Car", and still am, but not that much. The way it honks, the way it looks and the things it does, it just scares me.
back then they were turning
everything into a horror.
house hold object's
insects
humans don't count cause
that is a stable
animals
plants
weather
an so fourth.
I LOVE both movies!!! But, what has ALWAYS stuck with me about The Car is going through the house!!! That's just soooooooo many different kinds of f'ed up!!! 🤯🤪🤣
To me the appearance of the car isn’t really scary, it just looks like a big bath tub. And that horn sounds more comical than scary to my ear. Does anyone remember a made for TV movie called Wheels of Terror? That was a lot better than The Car but not as good as Christine.
Scared me as a kid for sure! Watched it again on TV last yr...sure its just a show but could see why it could instill fear and jog the imagination.
Excellent video as always from this channel! One minor point is that in the book "Christine", the odometer moving backwards is really heavily highlighted when Christine is being moved around and repairing herself, as far as I am aware from several discussions of the book it's not that she's actually repairing herself, but more that driving/moving her "turns back the clock" to when she was new again. If I recall correctly there was one paragraph in the book not long after Arnie buys her where it describes that her restoration appeared haphazard and random, but you can see how it may describe things being fixed "in order of decay" if you read it. It's still supernatural, just probably wouldn't work that well on film.
Yes I agree the book about Christine is way better than the movie the thing about a self repairing car is such an awesome concept I would put up with her evilness just because it can fix itself and all I have to do is put fuel in it I would put my hand on her like Arnie did and caress her metal body
whoever thought of killer cars
must have been drunk.
The books way better than the film
Hence, my "they're both the same car" reaction.
First novel I've ever read was Christine. My favorite difference from the movie was the way Darnell was killed.
I love them both.
The car was sinister and evil.
Vary sadistic feel, like when it chases the kid on the bike and sends him over the edge of the overpass.
Where as Christine is protective and vengeful.
Has an intoxicating effect on certain people.
Christine gets my vote for her ability to rebuild herself even after being run over by a bull dozer or ran through a metal compactor 😁
The Car is a straight-up psychopath, but Christine is a murderous yandere who would kill anyone to keep her owner safe and maintain her succubus-like influence over him.
Christine's willingness to rip herself apart crashing through an alley just to kill someone is the chef's kiss.
Ending was almost sinister on both.
Very last of the movie The Car....the horn honking right before the credits always got me.
Just the comment i could concur, @thatfordguy2268
Christine is set apart from The Car for obvious reasons. But I praise both films for how they equally gave the best in the supernaturally driven cars genre. Thank you for your video essay.
I’d argue that Christine is more terrifying, because she’s not just a car that runs people over, but messes with the head of the person who “owns” her.
There is a sadness with Artie’s fate, that not everything he became was evil, but that the obsession drove him beyond redemption.
Well said Chris. Well said.
Never even heard of “the car” so definitely Christine
I think The Car is scarier, it's sorta like Michael Myers, because in the end The Car never died, it escaped after all, driving through Los Angeles in the credits
@@soundwave7855 I see that, and raise you, Christine starting to re construct herself after being turned into a cube. 👺
@@PfalzD3 They got crazy feats, The Car even shook a whole mountain
honestly, the design of "the car" is awesome, i want one.
Barris’ shop built three of ‘em from wrecked Lincoln’s. A friend in a San Diego suburb bought the survivor and put it in a small museum, rigged to remote start. Very effective!
@@rickr442 can you send any proof of that cause I would love to see how its doing
@@timmyrehanek9576 after over thirty years I have no idea of where the car might be. The buyer was Bob Butts, of FANTASY CARS in Santee California. Bob passed some years ago, so who knows?
@@rickr442 So there's no like recent existing photos of the car? Just curious.
You're in luck I have one
That horn man, BAH BB BAH! Classic. I love this movie! The Car is one of the best movies ever made IMO.
I STILL want that horn! 😂
For decades the horn of "The Car" was something unique. I used to work with radio and morse code and never connected the two. When you said that, my jaw dropped in amazement like Wyle E Coyote in the Road Runner Show.
I change my answer because I seen some of the clips... It is actually "TU", not "X"...
There is a gap between the first long dash and then two dots and a dash.
This is why I never caught it. also note it was playing many dots meaning error
The Car definitely looks scarier but its more of an action thriller,where as Christine is a horror movie
The car, was both action, and horror. Them people were getting their asses kicked, during the day! The hell, with the unexpected! Here I come , EM EFFERS!!
Yeah Christine doesn’t look scary initially which is part of the point, The Car on the other hand makes no pretense at being owned or driven by anybody, it doesn’t even have door handles.
Oooh... Great bar topic... My head says Christine but my heart says The Car. Gonna give it to The Car. It's the one I'll never get tired of watching. Great video!
Cheers.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Btw, I hope The Car is in good hands. Many owners will let museums borrow their vehicles. I wish this owner would do that.
@@strangeluck Dont know if it still exists today. It was kept around for ahwile would turn up here/there but seems to have vanished. Happens to a lot of movie cars .They get old forgotten about junked etc
Filmmaker and horror movie fan Guillermo del Toro owns the one remaining "The Car." He once said he only brings it out for an occasional Sunday drive to the ice cream stand.
He had one made.
There's just a certain charm to these films that keeps you coming back. Solid video mate.
Cheers.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions I was going to ask if you could maybe make a video about a Death Battle Between these two cars I would love to see I will sub you if you could
🚗😈😨
@@Ernestsavcenko22 How is he supposed to do that?
@@gordocarbo to compare what they done in the Moives and to say who would win
I have enjoyed both movies but, I'm partial to The Car.
I was 14 & saw The Car on opening night - Friday, May 13, 1977. It was awesome. I was more fascinated with the physical & mechanical attributes of The Car which set the tone of how I built my first car - stance, powerplant, tires, etc.
This reminds me of another movie that didn't possess just a car, but everything with a motor in it, including electric ones: Maximum Overdrive! And a car possessed not by a demon, but by a revenge seeking ghost: The Wraith.
That was also a Stephen King book turned film. In fact, that was the one and only film Stephen ever directed himself. Obviously the film bombed pretty badly and this was during the time when he was at an all time high of substance abuse (ie cocaine, etc).
The "Wraith" was also a Rolls Royce, or was it the standard meaning of the word?
@@andykerr3803 it was probably the standard meaning
@@ShiftyKen08 It's a very strange name for a Rolls Royce or any car. The car itself would have made this movie a winner.
It is a scary good looking ghost of a car. Someone at RR liked this movie 🤗
@@andykerr3803 iirc The Wraith was a pace car, made very fancy for shows
So it fit perfect for the film,, and it's a WAY overlooked classic B movie, too :)
"The Car" seemed familiar. Turns out that in the were-car episode of Futurama, Bender transforms into the same car, only with a silver paint job, when he goes on his nightly rampages.
Very funny in retrospect.
The Honking 😂
Nope. Bender was not transformed into the car. BUT the one he had to kill to end the curse was
Between the two, it's definitely The Car. Although Christine is more famous and is a great, more haunted killer car, something about The Car is more terrifying and powerful. We never know where it came from, there's no driver, it has a semi truck horn and Nascar-like V8, and most of all, it's INDESTRUCTIBLE. All this makes it very horrifying and underrated as the predecessor killer car to Christine. The Car is the King in my book, with Christine being close second.
Also its very much implied to be satanic in nature, with its inability to enter hallowed ground(the graveyard) and the visuals of the ending explosion.
I watched ‘The Car’ last night and I really enjoyed it. The bit where he is in the garage and he turns round to see it parked there was a very creepy scene. You don’t get great scenes like that anymore in modern films. I think I prefer it to Christine overall but they are both classics.
I was actually the lucky owner of a red Plymouth Fury {paid $300 for it from the original owner} just like Christine when I was 16 in 1982 a year before the movie came out & after that nobody would ride with me any more...lol! I loved hearing those dual quad 4 barrels open up when you floored it! Unfortunately in 1984 a drunk driver ran a red light & Tboned me & she wasnt able to pull herself together so off to the scrapyard it went ✌💖☮
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My godness! This is the saddest story i read this week. I can't imagine it! This is a very beautifull car. Almost every car made before the oil crisis were gorgeous. I would have anyone o them. They really knew how to create vehicles. Today everything is friend of the wind and the economy. But everything else were left behind and i don't think this is the right way. The world is more black and white now.
@@a.thiago3842 ITs gone backwards, everything is more and more generic boring and look alike. EVs will be the same/similar chassis with differnet bodies. Not much different than bodied go cars in the 70s
"The Car" is definitely the most notorious horror mechanical monster. "Christine" gives a more psychological view of evil transformation on the driver and evil machine combined. That's why "Christine" is the most popular gorgeous (and sinister) classic car movie.
Christine wanted to corrupt a person of her choosing, The Car wasnt picky
@@ProtoType99468 Well said. The car would kill anything and everyone.
The flick with the diesels was pretty good too. Been a few of those over the yrs
Christine appearead in Spielberg's Ready Player One , one of the cars from the race scene, near the A-Team van
Yea that was fun...it was like seeing famous actors doing cameos.
I first watched the car in 1980 on TV and I fell in love with it. I have the original wheels magazine print ad, the Aussie daybill poster and the 1:18 scale die cast model. Christine is a superb film and I have it on laserdisc and VHS to this day. Thanks for doing a video on these two great films. Jaws, duel and the car - forever universal films kin
I'll give it to Christine. The car and actors were great. That soundtrack was awesome!
The Car definitely was a great one too.
I love that the main theme for her was Bad to the Bone... which she was
Any Time I see "The Car" now I cant help but think of Bender turning into a "Were-Car" on Futurama
Man this is no contest!!! The Car is way more spooky and menacing…. It still gives me chills to this day. Just like the truck in Duel….
The story, or lack thereof, left "The Car" with lots of room for both sequels and prequels. This is interesting timing as Hollywood had not caught the "let's make a sequel" bug in 1977. During the credits for the movie is some "extra" footage that was shot in what is fairly obviously an urban environment (I think it was LA) that, if you take it as meaning anything, could imply that the Car either survived or re-incarnated itself.
Christine (1958 Plymouth Fury) is a beautiful car but its not scary. The Car (1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III) is extremely scary and sinister looking. Even the sound of the engine will terrify you. So The Car deserves the crown 100%
all good till you get hit by it lol.
your funeral.😂
Nah Christine is more terrifying and here's why you don't have your guard up against Christine so you don't expect to be killed The Car on the other hand because of it's appearance and engine you instantly on full guard
@@JackA066 Christin is not terrifying. There’s something wrong with you 😉😘
@@FrankKnight8846 i beg to differ. Christine blends in really well with the others while the car isn't. if your in a city, goodluck even knowing that random beauty you spotted is actually a haunted car. The car however, is very easy to identify once the results would come out, doesn't help IT DOESN'T blend well with the rest of the civillian cars while christine does.
For me Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the most terrifying .
LOL
I think Herbie was even worse.
I cannot pick just one when you have both my favorites competing against each other. I love them both equally. Be great to see both in a double feature together at a drive-in but which one do you air first?
Sure Christine is terrifying. But she had reasons behind her attacks. The Car was a true demon, it attacked whatever and was tough as hell. I'd be much more scared of The Car.
Christine is a better movie, but The Car is way scarier
It’s funny - when The Car buzzed by the hitchhiker, it seemed like if the kid hadn’t yelled at The Car, it just would’ve kept going.
The Car - Jaws on land. But was effective to me as a kid. Demon car that just looks scary and appears out in the mysterious desert town. Christine - not exactly as scary to me (saw it at the cinema upon release) but was cool and mysterious as well. The self-restoration scene was and remains super cool. But both movies have the victims run down the middle of the road when chased by a car bent on killing them. Even then it would make us laugh.
Moochie tried hiding in the loading dock, not expecting Christine to just let the dock rip the metal so she could crush him in 2.
One of the scariest things about The Car, isn't what you see, it's what you hear. Imagine you're driving down a loooooooooong stretch of road, and you haven't seen another car for an hour. Suddenly, waaaaaay off in the distance, so faint you can't even tell where it's coming from, you hear the horn from The Car.
Now, The Car vs Christine, has to go to The Car. The Car can't be damaged. Christine can be destroyed and undo the damage, but she needs to back off and take a minute. If The Car won't stop the attack, Christine can't regenerate and there goes the fight.
I grew up on "the car" and had nightmares about it. There was just something about it to me was more scary and supernatural. It was like u weren't safe anywhere. In ur house. Ur garage, the mountains. The police station. No where. Lol
To me it's The Car hands down tinted windows and all. The windows were the key like no one could be seen inside and the demon coming out of the flames at the end.
[warning spoilers] for a movie made in 1977.
The scene where Wade is working in his garage and then looks up feeling something isn't right before turning around to reveal the car is already behind him in his locked garage is actually surprisingly well done I thought.
It's great because it subverts expectations. It's written as and clearly plays out as a "jump scare" moment, but it doesn't immediately do anything. It just sits there. It's almost as if the car is waiting and allowing Wade to take in the full gravity of the situation. Once it feels that Wade has fully had time to process what's going on It plays with him for a few moments blocking his escape. Once again it allows time for Wade to digest that it has no intention of letting him leave then it attacks.
I also like the scene where we clearly know the car is somewhere in the immediate vicinity of the house. We can hear it. Then we can see it but know that she's safe in her living room. I honestly didn't expect what happened next during my first viewing.
For horror movie hero, Wade acts mostly rationally regarding the threat. Ronnie Cox certainly does a serviceable job as the alcoholic deputy. Eddie, Littlesky adds a friendly but still somber tone to the movie as Chaz.
And RJ Armstrong. He is clearly one of the movie's villains. He is portrayed as an abusive and violent man. He gets no comeuppance whatsoever. As a matter of fact, at the end he's one of the movie's heroes. It's not even commented on. Maybe having seen what he has he will change his ways but we don't know. The movie certainly takes no position on this. All in all, That's a pretty bleak little plot point that the movie doesn't even comment on. Like it's just a part of life. I don't know if they intended for that to happen, but it still fits 1970s horror or for that matter 1970s drama pretty well.
Anyway, despite some of its cheese I like The Car.
I never saw 'The Car', or at least, I don't remember seeing it. However, I read 'Christine', and saw the movie a few times. Ironically, I never made the connection to that '58 Plymouth that I had the option to buy back in the mid-seventies.
On another note, a friend of mine in the late 70s owned a 1960 Chrysler Royal AP3. He raised and extended the rear quarter panel fins to give them a more Plymouth look. The Royals were Frankenstein cars based on the Plymouth P25.
The Car will always be more scary than Christine for the fact it was indiscriminately malicious. It didn't care you were or what you did. It just wanted to kill or terrorize you. Plus The Car looks very intimidating.
Christine only ever hurt those who got in her or Arnie's wa. If you didn't involve yourself with those people. You were very unlikely to even see it in action
Saw both multiple times and if i have to be honest,they both share the top spot to me.Great movies both of them.Pointless to compare.
I like both but it would have to be Christine for me. Ever since I first seen Christine I have wanted a 58 Plymouth. I also like watching the sequences of her repairing herself and just the personality she has. I also just think Christine is the better movie. My Mom has a story of when her aunt took her and my aunt to go see it because they thought it was like Herbie😂
For the same reason I choose The Car. I've wanted that modded Continental Mk3 ever since I saw Bender transform into it in Futurama. I only even know the movie exists because of that episode and I just adore custom one off vehicle total conversion mods like that. Just wish they'd kept the garage door headlight covers the Mk3 and Mk4 were famous for.
We totally need a Christine vs Herbie movie.
@@vladyvhv9579 There's a vid on YT of Herbie and Christine going out together.
@@vladyvhv9579 Christine was a bad version of Herbie. If they were husband and wife Herbie would be the soft hearted husband and Christine would be the evil controlling abusive wife.
Final Verdict
Christine=Queen
The Car=King
Without hesitation I'd go with Christine, especially considering the fact there is a real-life Christine of sorts. An early '60s Dodge with an alleged body count of 14, it's a New England urban legend Stephen King must have heard numerous times while growing up in Maine, which must have played a part in him writing the novel. Bedtime Stories has a great video on it called "The Curse of the Golden Eagle" for those interested.
Bedtime stories is such a great channel honestly. Some of their stories really sent chills down my spine.
For me definitely the car! That black menacing look took the cake!
Great video! I watched both movies, in the theater, when they came out. Christine was probably the better movie, but The Car is the car I would buy and drive around. So damned cool!
OK now you guys are after my heart with this Video, my 2 favorite Car Horror movies, love your content. Great channel!!!!
Cheers for that. Glad you liked it.
I don't think Christine was an evil car by itself. Jealous? Yes. Revengeful? Definetely. But Christine didn't look to have 'kill everyone' goal. Anyway, you don't want to see that Plymouth Fury when it's in fury!
Almost 50 years later and there’s no vehicle more menacing, ominous and commanding than..The Car!!!
Christine all day long
Both are awesome though
6:56 tr6 8:27 on the first karr episode on knight rider this is the scene they use for a second when karr jumps off the cliff
I watched it as kid when I used to live in Brazil , the Brazilian cinema translated it to “ A máquina do diabo “ “ the devil’s machine “ this movie absolutely terrified me as a kid , I had nightmares, now it’s a absolutely classic! I love both but nothing can top The car in evil looks and sound , Barris was the movie car master , I meet George Barris in 2015 in Sydney car expo I gave him a drawn caricature of him driving the bat mobile and he was really nice to me and made me feel really good and he kept looking at the cartoon in the glass frame and saying I am really touched by the kindness of the Australian people thank you so much , man he was loved in Australia 🇦🇺 Barris also was the judge for the best cars on display at Car Expo and lots of Barris cars was at the show it was insanely awesome i took a plane to Sydney from South Australia cos I knew it was once of a lifetime chance to meet George Barris , and not long after that I found out he passed away !
Easily, 'The Car'. That movie scared me as a child. The atmosphere and environment was a huge part of what made the movie scary. Isolation, the vast unknown with no escape, and not knowing when or where the protagonist would appear to eliminate another town victim, only to learn at the end the true nature of the vehicle.
Christine wasn't scary at all. While it attempted to be a psychological thriller, it didn't quite make the connection for me.
There was something primal about The Car. To actually feel the fear emanating from the characters as they were being stalked by the evil manifestation. It was tangible and almost plausible.
Christine, not so much. Kinda campy to me.
the problem i had with the car movies is i found they try ot be edgy while christine literally has you believing someone is driving it i remembered the first time i watched christine in 2016 i thought that billy was the one killing then i saw her driving while he was no where near her and that put me on the edge of my seat like oh shit its actually possesed and yea Christine also shows how some people change when they get a car they love
The Car is King 👑
Christine is the Queen.
The Car and Christine king and queen of the road of terror!!!!
The two iconic horror car
They're both awesome
Really enjoyed this. And I have to say, I've never even heard of The Car. Bloody love Duel and Christine though so I will be watching The Car pronto! Thanks for bringing it up. Weird how the often under appreciated films end up as cult classics isn't it. Most of John Carpenter's films are like that, including his timeless gem The Thing 😊😉
Cheers, glad you enjoyed my vid. If you go in watching The Car with a relaxed, not too serious mindset, I am sure you will enjoy it.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Cheers. I always try and remove too much expectations for any films, series or games, and keep an open mind 👍
Christine, grew up with it.
Auntie in law has a Plymouth fury in Australia..
Still love watching it over the car..
Horror Crown?? The Car, would be my choice, now both cars are killers but " the car" at the end we see that physical manifestation of the Demon with the mouth with fangs and fire spitting tongue. End of story.Christine we don't actually see the demon's actual physicality, although one could say that "Arnie" was transformed into a demon- like entity, but we never see the real demon possessing both Christine and Arnie simultaneously.Thank you great vid, great content
Both cars look fantastic. The Plymouth fury hides its sinister side more under that stunning fins and chrome skin , where as the Lincoln Continental or tye Car , just looks evil
Maybe it the Car was made around the same time as Christine it would be a much tougher contest . I love both films lve got them both on DVD aswell as the film with Dennis Weaver in Duel , classic suspense horror films . I think Chritine is tte better film , but the Car , the Lincoln Continental was a much more evil..... ld love to see a film of a possessed or Demonic wrecking truck . I actually had a 1/64 model from a sketch l did made of a Wrecking truck called Ol' Blue , that becomes possesed after its owner is brutally murdered , and the wrecking truck seeks revenge ....
For me, The Car wins this one. The design is haunting, it looks alive and evil.
The crown would DEFINITELY go to "The Car." It's FAR MORE sinister, scarier looking,, more powerful, and kills for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON.
I'd go for Christine myself as I own one (although a 4dr hardtop). Although 1 really big downside of the car is it's small interior space. I'm not tall at all but I've got the front bench set all the way back and I still have too less legroom
that backseat was used for other things!
While I fell in love with Christine the first time I watched the movie, the Car scared the shit out of me. I refused for months to walk in front of parked cars, especially at night, thinking that their lights would flick on, and I’d hear that evil horn right before the scream of a V8…
I always thought the credits of the Car teased an urban sequel, with a sportier Car hunting down any pedestrian in it’s path. Shame we never got that
great video!...as a young kid in the early 80s, i've always had a soft spot for the Nova Sterling GT and the Porsche 935 in "Condorman" (1981)...yes it's a cheesy Disney flick, but the car chase is awesome! :D
Cheers for. That. Have to admit, I have a soft spot for that film and car. Had the movie on tape as a kid and watched it over and over again. Plus it came out the year I was born, so it gets extra points. One could say Disney was ahead of its time with a comic book movie set in the real world. Though as an adult watching it, it is flawed and not often sure what it wants to be in its tone. And Michael Crawford trying to do an American accent is cringy at times. But it's all part of its charm.
I loved the fact that they had a few Camaros thrown in the chase, too. Maybe a different chase, but I know for sure there were some later-70s Camaros driven by bad guys involved in chasing Condorman.
I was starting to think I was the only person that remembers that movie!
You might like "Aces go Places" 1 & 2.
I always loved the car. Of course Christine is more beautiful but the car were special in its own way
My top pick is the car, it had a menus about it and it looked evil, I loved it. It was different than any other horror film at the time, I still love that movie.
*menace
I might add, a demon car movie that is fun is Crash (1977). A seriously low budget, straight to drive-in's, movie. But it has the coolest driverless '67 convertible Camaro. You can see that there is truly no one driving the car in several scenes.
I definitely have to go with Christine
Definitely one of the best horror movies of all time I thought it was pretty cool using the car as a killer instead of a human being it's a lot more interesting that's for sure growing up around all the cars made it even better the 58 Fury is such a beautiful car that's for sure?
I'd have to agree. As a long-time horror fan, I just find The Car to be one of those "It's ok for a B movie, but I wouldn't bother watching it again" movies. Christine is one that I go back to often.
I can't choose one or the other.
I love them both.
Both of these deserves an award, but The Car is scarier than Christine in my opinion.
Christine is a better movie and a sexier car, but the car is definitely more terrifying.
For about 30 years now I been trying to figure out hoe they did the SFX in 'Christine', where the Plymouth repairs itself.
(I assume it's probably reversed film, of the fixed car being deformed. But I still don't know how they did the deforming)
Edit- Hey! Well done tracking that info down. Ialways pictured cables, rather than hydraulics but... now I know.
Good stuff.
I thought they did some of the scenes with air pressure to inflate the damaged metal I'm not swearing to that but I was around when the movie was new I don't mean that they inflated metal I thought it was a big plastic balloon possibly
I'd heard that they took a rubber mould of the car and then sucked all the air out
@@andrewdrabble8939 I think you're right and that's what It looks like
I remember that, when it came out, magazines used to state that it was done with wavy mirrors .
Lots of interior substructures connected to pulleys and lots exterior controls. I worked with movie car providers for a while… where there’s a will there’s a way if there’s a check waiting.
The effects used to show Christine healing herself was mind-blowing back then! I was 13, and I thought it was amazing!
I'll throw in my two cents as to why The Car takes the lead .
# 1, Everyone is enamored with the 'strong silent type' !
Sure when it honked it's horn it sounded like it was laughing as it enjoyed tormenting and killing it's victim , but that's it !
It didn't flip through the radio stations and all this to put you in mood to what it was thinking or feeling !
Once you heard that horn you knew , "it's your ass" !
"Less is more" & in order to preserve the mystique of the 'who what were how & why' of The Car , this works greatly !
# 2, The Car was not compromising & didn't have a relationship !
She didn't allow for anybody have a relationship with her !
There wasn't anything you could do to appease her , or to make her happy ( aside from being murdered by her . ) you couldn't worship her , you couldn't bribe her , you couldn't reason with her.......effectively , it was a sadistic Terminator !
And 'yes' as a kid in the early 80's I saw The Car and Carrie and I'm here to tell you that The Car scared to shit out of me 'and' kept my interest from beginning to end !
Even the music was fascinating , where as Carrie.......it was 'good' but as a little kid I lost my interest several times during the movie and now as an adult I think if I should go back and watch it I would be like , " get to the fucking point ! "
Let's see some action here !!!
The Car is a girl? 😮
I often use The Cars horn. 1 long beep followed by 3 short beeps.
Sadly none of my friends knows or remembers it.
It would have been terrifying if David drove Christine vs the Chevy he drove in Knight Rider 2000😁
I grew up with both movies in my life I'd say The Car because that horn sound was wicked
The car is the king, look at It, It looks so serious
I simply cannot pick. I have loved Christine since it came out. I think 58 Plymouths were /are gorgeous and Christine is sinister in that movie. I have also loved The Car since I was a boy. I owned a Mark III for 15 years, so the George Barris treatment really resonates with me. I think Christine is prettier, the Car is more terrifying, and both are worthy of the crown..
Always loved The Car! Christine was great, but of course book was better and I expected a little more. Got to see the actual car at Universal studios. How can I that t-shirt? I don't see it on website.
I saw the trailer for "The Car" at the cinema when I was ten years old, and it truly scared me. But I couldn't see the movie because I had to be at least 12 to be allowed in the theater. In the early eighties, the movie was broadcast on television and I recorded it on a Betamax tape. I wasn't disappointed. I enjoyed it a lot, but I remember being very upset because the entire final chase looked very dark on TV and it was very hard to see what was happening (contrast and brightness controls didn't help much).
The Car was at Universal in an outside parking lot in the back lot until 1984 when they remodeled the back lot and rearranged everything. Then it disappeared. It was parked next to Columbos car. A few yards away between two sets sat the little flying saucer that Blair was building in secret from the movie The Thing. That also disappeared in 1984. Who knows where they are today. I bet the flying saucer was scrapped. That might have been the fate of The Car and Columbos car?? Who knows. My favorite is hard to call but I guess it has to be The Car. I just couldn't stand James Brolins girl friend in the movie and was so glad that The Car drove through the house and killed her. And it was a really good scene. Also, the horn is iconic. Christine is bad ass too.
We watched this as we had The Car in our suggestion list and having watched a few clips found it interesting. We had never heard of it but liked the idea. Plus, it looks really cool. I have seen the film Christine twice, but my husband hasn't, but he has read the book and I haven't but love it for each version. For both of us, both are really cool cars and the idea of what they are is very interesting. You never get to know exactly what they are or how they came to be.
Christine,even at the end of the film,the car started to take shape again,the trim straightened out!! So,its cruising around today..The other one is finished!
The Car end credits disagree.
2:03 can we give credit to the stunt man/woman who jumped off that frikkin bridge?
5:38 that would be Robert Blossoms. You should check him out in *Escape from Alcatraz* (where *The Prisoner* himself plays the prison warden) and a film called *Deranged (1974)*
9:00 it might be a replica, but Guillermo Del Toro has one in his house museum.
Thanks for the vid, it's a good one, Christine for me, but always wondered why Christine was in such a bad state when Arnie bought her and why she didn't just repair herself, maybe a prequel will come out one day that shows Christines early life?
Cheers. It's a plothole, or became one once they removed Roland LeBay and the need to push Christine to repair herself. In the book, he was just too old and he back ruined to push her. In the movie now, one could argue with Roland dead, she just let herself go.
It needed the right owner
I can't get into Steven King's mind, but looking at the way things played out, Christine is like an obsessed lover. If they have nobody to focus on, they go dormant, become moody etc. The moment someone pays them some attention, they come alive and for better or worse, the obsession grows until one or both are dead. Christine returns Arnie's affection by restoring her beauty, with his help, and then systematically kills off any antagonist and almost kills his non-automotive love interest.
that opening scene in Christine sets the tone for the whole movie....this car is evil!...
Christine is one of my favorite horror movies ❤
My mom and I show it several times in of all places the drive in.❤️
I enjoyed both movies but the horror crown goes to The Car.
Watched both movies as a kid. I was scared by The Car, I can't say that about the other movie.
The Car. Hands down for me.
I seen the CAR at the movie theater back in the day when it first came out. I really enjoyed it. I too had seen CHRISTINE when it first came out. Which is my fave? I'll never tell.
I was younger when I saw the car, terrifying to a little kid haha. Duel movie was super scary too.
As a fan of both films. I think they both earn a to place but for didn't reasons.
The Car was evil. Purely evil. It didn't kill for revenge. So as horror goes I give it the nod. Tell me you didn't jump when Brolin turns around in the garage to see The Car sitting there in wait. And that horn with the engine revving. Chills everytime.
Christine was about a young man and his possessed car. Yes the car had a maniacal side, but it was really about revenge. Arnie and Christine against the world. And we knew time was running out for both by watching the odometer count backwards. Tell me you didn't feel bad for Arnie when he reaches out to Christine for the last time.
Def The Car..much cooler and a classy Lincoln..ya wanna be a psycho inna Lincoln.
I enjoyed both movies, and the included Duel Truck. I do prefer Christine over The Car simply because the Characters and story really help Christine kind of take on a personality of her own. You can't help but love her look and the amazing practical effects. Great video my friend.. you earned a sub and thumbs up from this guy. 👍
THE CAR--- BY FAR!!!!
Fuckin' A yeah 👍
My Dad had a 1973 Eldorado and the horn in that car sounded the same as the Cars horn !! It was actually 4 horns and it came from the factory that way !
I've got to look that up.
I think the soundtrack of Christine was awesome highlighted some supernatural intelligence/primitive communication between Christine and the audience and other human players in the movie. The music from her radio was ominous and accurate to what was happening in the scene. Perfectly suspenseful.
Also the 50's song selection were haunting in themselves
The Car no doubt inspired KARR from Knight Rider. Especially when the shot of him driving off a cliff came from that movie.
THE. CAR.