Too Bad It Wasn't Car 54

THE CAR-1977-A driver-less car of death terrorizes a Utah community. The car indiscriminately kills various citizens including two bike riders, a French horn playing hitchhiker and the town sheriff (John Marley). Deputy Wade Parent (James Brolin) is left to figure out the mystery. The vicious vehicle attacks some grade school kids rehearsing for a parade. Their music teacher Lauren (Kathleen Lloyd) also Wade's girlfriend calls the evil auto a chicken. When the car won't enter a cemetery another deputy (Ronny Cox) surmises that it's some kind of entity but Wade doesn't believe him even after it kills Loren. Later Wade confronts the sinister sedan in his own garage. A wife beating redneck (RG Armstrong) provides explosives that spell a fiery and demonic end to the rampage. Terrible. 

Ok, I'm not going to speculate how Eliot Silverstein, the director of CAT BALLOU and A MAN CALLED HORSE wound up doing doing this low budget piece of junk but much of his later work was episodes of TV shows (like TALES FROM THE CRYPT) and TV movies. You figure it out!

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A Bad Movie By Any Other Name....

THE FIGHTER-(1994)-It's also known as SAVATE, so beware! Olivier Gruner (the French born kick boxing champion in only his third film; he's made around 20 more since!) is a Kung-Fu cowboy in a small Western town run by (un-billed) R. Lee Ermey in a story obviously inspired by Sam Raimi's THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, (and TV's KUNG-FU) though the opening theme sounds like "The Good The Bad & The Ugly". Ermey wants the farm owned by HELLRAZOR's Ashley Lawrence and holds a fignting tournament. Gruner beats up a lot of "evil" Yankees in defense of the people who liked keeping slaves.

Gruner is a legit champion but a stiff as as an actor (but so was Van Damme and his idiotic movies got theatrical releases!). And speaking of stiffs, Marc Singer (with a monocle) appears in a flashback as Gruner's sadistic commander, who unfortunately shows up later on. James (Mr. Striesand) Brolin even joins the festivities as a crooked colonel who gets killed. In the finale Gruner has to fight Singer with a bullet in his leg but of course wins in the end. Also with Ian Ziering, Micheal Palance & Rance Howard.

Director and co-writer Isaac Florentine directed several versions of TV's MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS.

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