Inspired by a song I recently heard about being how cool it would be to get turned into a pile of bloody hamburger in a horrible car wreck, I asked myself a question: what are some of the more memorable car crashes in film history? A few that spring to mind.
Punch Drunk Love. Out of the blue, unexplained, and completely disconnected from the rest of the movie (other than establishing that the world is a chaotic, scary and threatening place).
Dawn of the Dead (2004). The film gets off to a rolicking start (so goddamn rolicking that it never really tops it's first ten minutes) with a suburban neighborhood going to hell. Neighbors are pulling guns on each other as zombies thrist for human flesh, and when an ambulance is running people over, you know that the shit is going down.
The Last Seduction: Cars are often used as weapons in movies, but in this movie, Linda Fiorentino's lethal vixen actually killed a guy with the power of her flirting...and by crashing directly into a tree.
The Descent: Nice and bloody. It also eschews the out-of-nowhere shock tactics of most crash scenes for a nice reversal: the audience sees that the cars are going to crash before the characters do.
Fight Club: Effective as metaphor, effective as scary-ass car wreck.
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You must not forget the classic Fast and the Furious or its even cooler sequel 2Fast2Furious.
And possibly the best car chase scene ever - and a noteworthy crash - in the Dirty Harryesque, vigilante-leaning, awful-corrupt-liberal-politician-hating movie BULLITT(1968)
No CGI here.
Here is the shot on YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTvMwNl2fEI
Another county heard from.
I thought of Bullit, but I wanted to stick with car crashes from movies that weren't based around cars as mileau and plot: you're kind of waiting for the car crash in those movies. They aren't as visceral.
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