The Dead Travel Fast

Every class or type of car carries with it its own aura and a select few types have become trademarks for certain groups of fictional characters. Undercover Miami detectives use Italian supercars, international spies use British sports cars and criminals (or post apocalyptic warriors) use muscle cars.

However, pre-muscle car era American cars (the "tail fin" era, so to speak) are synonymous with the unnatural, the unholy and the undead. They wont win any races, but you can bet if the Grim Reaper ever uses a car, he'd have the trunk of a 1950s era American car lined with souls. Like a medieval black knight or gothic castle, their aura seems to ooze evil. Few people recognize this as well as Stephen King does. More often than not, if the antagonists of his works drive cars, it's 50s era American.

In Sometimes They Come Back, a group of bullies return from Hell in their trusty, black 1955 Chevrolet Bel-Air, with flame stripes on the front fenders. The undead bullies use their Bel-Air to great effect in tormenting the man responsible for their deaths. In Christine, the car itself is the antagonist. She's an evil succubus in the form of a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury (although they use various Savoys and Belvederes in the movie to portray her. Not a single true '58 Fury shows up in the movie) who forces her owners to fall in love with her, then pushes away and kills all those around them. In Riding The Bullet (the movie, not the book), the protagonist meets up with George Staub, a dead man turned Grim Reaper. Staub also uses a red and white Plymouth Fury, but it's a 1960 model, not a 1958. Staub uses his Fury (an actual Fury, unlike the impersonators in Christine) to hound the main character and try to drive him back to the Underworld with him.

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[shadow55552]

I disagree that its always the Premuscle care era. The Winchester brothers drive a 1970's Chevy Impala

[Idoloish]

@shadow55552

The Winchesters are also not villains.

[boomhauer93]

Name of this song please ))

[Idoloish]

Would love to post it, but the makers of said song would had the audio taken down so fast it'd make your head spin.

[StuRaz]

I totally understand your point. I suppose this is a bad example but I remember watching Psycho (1960) and just from seeing the type of car I knew it would be some kind of horror film (if the title didn't already give it away!).

Anyway congrats on the video, I enjoyed it and it's well made.

[Idoloish]

Thanks, bud. Glad you enjoyed.

[samsonpker]

I guess this weird six sense that the dead travel fast

[PivotStarter97]

if they were to make a 2nd Christine movie...i want tha car to return as tha 1960 Plymouth Fury from Riding the bullet...if u look closely at it's front, it looks like its angry...so thats why i think it should be a good model for Christine...if she returns

[WarOfSalvation]

Another thing I like about this, is that quote. "The Dead Travel Fast". Is that actually in the novel Dracula?

[StuRaz]

I forgot how good this is.

[WarOfSalvation]

I love 50s cars. Every other car just doesnt have the same feel. There's just something about a classic car. I dont know what, but something.

[swdcdm]

one of stephen king's movies that used cars where the antagonists car is not a 50's car is Maximum Overdrive

[herbienbrian2]

@HotrodEvil

I REALLY hope your right but at the same time I don't because I don't want to see any more Fury's get destroyed.

[xxpandamidknightxx]

She's on fire.