Black Cadillac (film)

Infobox Film
name = Black Cadillac


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director = John Murlowski
producer = Kenneth Burke
writer = John Murlowski, Will Aldis
starring = Randy Quaid
Shane Johnson
Josh Hammond
Jason Dohring
cinematography = Douglas Smith
editing = John Gilbert
distributor = First Look International,
MTI Home Video,
Artist View Entertainment
released = flagicon|US 2003
runtime = 88 min.
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0313285

Black Cadillac is a 2003 thriller/horror film, directed by John Murlowski and written by John Murlowski and Will Aldis. The film stars Shane Johnson, Josh Hammond, Jason Dohring and Randy Quaid.

Plot

The film begins with three young men, Scott, Robbie, and CJ, stopping at a roadhouse in Wisconsin in search of a good time, and Robbie in particular looking to get laid for the first time. Soon, CJ gets into a fight in the bar and Scott is forced to come inside and bail him and Robbie out. Leaving the roadhouse and their new enemies at the bar behind, the three set off for Minnesota, their home state.

Within a few minutes, a large, menacing black car begins stalking them, repeatedly creeping up close and backing off again. Several minutes later, they pick up Deputy Sheriff Charlie Harman, whose '86 Chevrolet police cruiser has frozen to death at the side of the road. After picking up the friendly and talkative Charlie, the Cadillac, identified as a 1957 Eldorado, begins to get more and more aggressive, and for unknown reasons challenges Scott's SAAB to a drag race. Suspicion over why the car is after them and who its occupants want begins to rise within the SAAB, and Scott decides to kick Charlie out of the car and leave him, believing he is the reason they are being chased. The Cadillac then reappears, and Charlie is apparently killed by a gunman in the Cadillac. After a long while is spent by the three attempting to escape and outwit the Cadillac, the SAAB overheats and stops, and a fight breaks out between the three young men. CJ intervenes and stops the fight, and the three push the SAAB down the road to a repair garage. CJ is soon kidnapped by the Cadillac's occupants while outside, and a chase between both cars across the nearby frozen lake ensues, in which Scott's car is finally destroyed by its overheating problems.

CJ is then found tied to a tree, and the reason for the entire set of events is revealed- Charlie, who is in truth a cruel and vindictive man whose death was faked by his brother, Luther, the Cadillac's driver, has been attempting to identify the man his wife had been seeing at a roadhouse for some time, and learned while in the car that it was Scott. As he prepares to kill Scott with a hunting knife, his wife Jeanine taunts and distracts him, allowing Scott, Robbie and CJ to break free and run. An insanely enraged Charlie, now personally driving the Cadillac, chases after them. When he corners Scott at the edge of a cliff, he waits a moment, then charges. His wife appears at the last moment in front of Scott, causing Charlie to veer away, sending the black Cadillac crashing down the cliff and into the lake. The destroyed, burning car sinks into the lake while Scott, CJ, Robbie, and Jeanine look on. The next morning, the group finally makes it across the state line into Minnesota.

Development

* Scott's red car is a Saab 900, while the black car stalking them is a 1957 Cadillac Fleetwood.

* In several scenes, a black '57 Series 62 Sedan is substituted for the Series 75 limousine. Since the roof and rear window is completely different on the two cars, a fake roof extension had to be created for the Series 62 model. It was this car and not the limousine that drove off the cliff into the frozen lake at the end of the film.

* The film is based loosely on an experience from the director's past. In the early eighties, while he and a few friends were driving home, they were chased by a car, for several hours, through backwoods roads.

Cast

*Randy Quaid as Charlie
*Shane Johnson as Scott
*Josh Hammond as C.J. Longhammer
*Jason Dohring as Robby
*Adam Vernier as Beefy
*Kiersten Warren as Jeannine
*Robert Clunis as Luther
*Taylor Stanley as Denise

Quotations

Deputy Sheriff Charlie Harman

* Coldest night on record this time of the year, and my cruiser freezes to death on me! I gotta be the only cop left in the universe still drivin' an '86 Chevy.

* [To Robbie] Must be tough bein' the little brother. Invisible in the light of the hero?

* [When asked what the Cadillac's occupants want as they challenge the SAAB to a race] What do you think they want? They wanna drag. You gonna give 'em what they want?

* [When Scott decides to leave Charlie to die] My young friends, this is something you're going to have to live with! We all have nights where we reveal! This is yours.

* Jesus, son- what the fuck did I ever do to you?

* [To his wife] Get back in the fuckin' car!

* [Last words] Thus endeth 'The Streak'.

Scott

* [After CJ asks him, 'why do you always think it's me?'] Because...it always is?

Jeannine

* [When Charlie tells her to shut up] Or what? What are you gonna do to me that you ain't already done?

External links

*imdb title|id=0313285|title=Black Cadillac