Cars to Avoid on Friday the 13th

Car Problems are a scary thing.  It does not matter whether it’s a faulty Diesel Injector or a malfunctioning Engine Control Module.  The issue is either going to cause unsafe driving, or scare the stuffing out of your wallet.  Although failing car parts are bone-chilling, cars themselves can be even more menacing.  Over the years, the movie industry has tapped into this and has given us some classic movie villains.  While the movie, Friday the 13^th did not star any of these vehicles, I thought I would mention some of the definitive horror cars to honor this day.

Any conversation about horror movies and cars must start with Christine.  The killer in this John Carpenter movie was a 1958 Plymouth Fury.  In Stephen King’s book Christine was haunted by her past owner, but in the movie adaptation the car was born bad.  The film’s tagline claims the vehicle was possessed by Hell.  So, before you decide to restore an old Plymouth make sure you warn your girlfriend, because it may try to kill her.

One of the creepier cars to grace the silver screen was the rusty old 1941 Chevy COE (Cab Over Engine) in Jeeper Creepers.  The movie starts off with a young brother and sister driving back from spring break in a 1960 Chevy Impala.  As they drive through some corn fields the massive COE tries to run them off the road.  Then a bunch of people die, more non-car related stuff happens, the driver of the COE grows wings and I think someone gets eaten.  At least I know the COE’s license plate was, B EATING U, so someone better have gotten eaten.

Stephen King makes his second contribution to this list with his 80’s horror movie stinker Maximum Overdrive.  In this movie, Emilio Estevez is chased by a bunch of vehicles that came alive because of a freak radiation storm.  The leader of these deadly automobiles is a White Western Star 4800 semi-truck, with the face of Green Goblin from Spiderman.  Unlike the Spiderman movie this Green Goblin was not voiced by Willem Dafoe, it simply made a lot of vroom vroom and toot toot sounds.

Honorable mentions go to, Herbie from The Love Bug and The Delorean from Back to the Future 2. Herbie makes the list because anything that has to do with Lindsay Lohan scares the me.  Sadly, the Dolorean gets a mention because Back to the Future 2 was one of the worst sequels of all time, It was scary bad.  Also, it’s 2012… WHERE IS MY HOVERBOARD!!!

Hope you have a frightening Friday the 13^th Muahahahahaha