Once again, Overthinkingit hops into the saddle for Stacie Ponder’s Final Girl Film Club. This month’s pick:  The Car.

Can we all just take a minute to consider how stupid that title is, by the way?  Sure, there’s a proud tradition of naming horror movies after the thing that’s doing the killing:  “Anaconda,” “Piranha,” “Bats,” “Orca,” “Leeches!,” etc.  etc.  These all work as titles because the things they refer to are scary, or at least used to be until Free Willy came out. I get nervous when I see an anaconda at the zoo.  I twitch a little when I type the word piranha - have you seen pictures of these bastards?  “The Car” isn’t going to do the trick.

Yes, I know carbon emissions are destroying the planet.  Don’t care.  I know that drunk driving is the number one killer of Americans aged 1-29.  Still don’t care.  Cars aren’t scary.  It doesn’t matter how many people they kill.  I mean, would you go to see a horror movie called “The Heart Disease?”  At the very least, they could have used this for the tagline…