Crash! (1976)
5/10
SUE LYON!
10 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I have a real weakness for Charles Band's movies. I think any study of the past articles on this site will point to this, but today's example is 1977's Crash!, a movie where Sue Lyon plays a wife who has to deal with a jealous husband played by José Ferrer who keeps trying to kill her. So she does what any one of us would do. She uses black magic to get back at him.

Will the burned visage of Reggie Nalder show up? How about John Carradine? What about the gorgeous Leslie Parrish, who pretty much created C-SPAN and was a major activist in addition to being a frequent talk and game show host? As you can see, Mr. Band knows exactly what I want, which is possessed cars and occult 1970's buffoonery.

You have to love that Band has a best of montage right before the end of the movie, reminding us of all the vehicular non-driver homicide that we've already watched, which includes a giant dog against a possessed wheelchair.

This movie just barely beat The Car to theaters, but that movie blows it away in almost every way, except that this has Carradine cashing a check and Sue Lyon making my heart flutter. Otherwise, I'll stick with Anton LaVey's gas guzzler in the desert, if you make me pick. You didn't, so I'll just let you know that I enjoyed this, but I'm also a sucker for things blowing up real good and Satanic shenanigans.
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