Let’s Ride #4!
Kim Denne (Sue Lyon) purchases an ancient Hittite charm that unleashes its fury via a black 1967 Chevy Camaro in the 1976/77 feature film Crash!. In the movie, Kim is married to a wheelchair-bound professor named Marc (Jose Ferrer) who forbids her to leave their home. When she sneaks away one day, Marc has his Doberman attack Kim while driving her car. She has a terrible accident and ends up in a hospital, clutching the charm that she purchased. She has no memory of the wreck, only flashes of what might have happened. As she recovers, a mysterious, driver-less Camaro begins terrorizing the highways around San Cecilia, killing dozens of people and causing major damage to multiple vehicles. A young doctor named Gregg Martin (John Ericson) attempts to discover what powers the charm holds….and why it might be possessing Kim. Top it all off with the fact that Dr. Martin’s primary source of information also happens to be Marc Denne, and you’ve got quite the conundrum. Watch Crash to find out what happens!
The film isn’t that bad. It has a disjointed beginning and some pretty questionable special effects, but overall the movie is a decent effort from Charles Band, who would go on to direct and/or produce such cult classics like The Dungeonmaster (1984), Puppet Master (1989), and Trancers (1984).
The cast does a decent job as well. Lyon, Ferrer, and Ericson all give solid performances despite the jumbled plot of the film. John Carradine has a cameo as a professor who assists Dr. Martin. Leslie Parish is solid in a small supporting role as Nurse Kathy, and Jerome Guardino is very good as Lt. Pegler, who also assists Dr. Martin.
Crash is a decent B-movie with lots of explosions, insane wrecks, and a killer wheelchair. I don’t feel like I wasted my time watching this film. Just give it a few minutes to get going and I think that you’ll like it as well.
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