At Flashbak: Road Rage - The 5 Most Evil Vehicles in Horror Movie History

Now posted at Flashbak is my look at cinematic evil vehicles.

Here's a snippet and the url: http://flashbak.com/road-rage-the-5-most-evil-vehicles-in-movie-history-17875/

"In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan wrote that the modern automobile has become “the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell of urban and suburban man.” 

In horror movies, cars and trucks have become even more than that. They have become, in fact, a physical manifestation of man’s dark side, and vehicles for the furtherance of Evil.

When broaching horror movies about evil vehicles, the big question is: how could our beloved machines turn on us, their owners and creators?  In some cases vehicles -- having acquired sentience -- simply know better than we do, and they assert their control.

In other cases, our tools -- perhaps sensing some inadequacies -- have switched to a more powerful owner: the Devil himself.

Below are my choices for the five most diabolical vehicles in the horror cinema, listed in chronological order.  You may notice that all of these vehicles appeared on our screens during the 1970s and 1980s, an era defined by affluence and conspicuous consumption."