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Move over, Christine– you're so last century. Stephen King's furious Fury is being replaced by a hybrid. Variety reports Voltage Pictures is beginning production of "Hybrid," a horror flick "about a female mechanic in a Chicago police garage who spends a night of terror with a hybrid car." (No, I'm not making that up.) They don't give much more information about the movie except it's budgeted at $10m and is shooting around Regina, Saskatchewan. Nor do they say which hybrid is the objet terrible or how it goes about its evil business. Anyone want to make any suggestions on how a predatory Prius or internecine Insight would go about terrorizing its hapless (and oh so very cliché) female victim?
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The car is going to go to houses with SUV’s and Hummers on the drive and tell them to “Stop killing the planet” whilst leaving with a smug sense of satisfaction…..
Or the car could be an GM SUV with its “two-mode” hybrid system. That way if the car REALLY doesn’t like the person, it’ll turn to 4WD and squash them or if it’s someone who didn’t do something as bad it’ll switch to 2WD and just break their legs…..
I think the Prius will turn people into zombies who can only recite what Al Gore tells them, slowly boring our heroin to death.
One hopes they realize that Regina, Saskatchewan, looks nothing like Chicago, IL. I'm pretty sure it'll be a terrible Malibu/Aura Hybrid. The mechanic will go insane because of the 1 mpg fuel "saving" over the regular gas version and commit suicide.
Priustine?
$10 million budget and filmed in Regina?
I smell Oscar!
@6G74 : does the Maliura hybrid battery pack contain adequate volt-age to inflict the obligatory damage of this B-movie?
starlightmica :
March 31st, 2008 at 9:01 am
@6G74 : does the Maliura hybrid battery pack contain adequate volt-age to inflict the obligatory damage of this B-movie?
I wonder… It apparently doesn’t contain enough voltage to allow a better improvement in fuel economy than a $.50 Tornado air intake bauble, so I doubt it could do much of anything else.
A homicidal Prius? That’s like making Herbie the Lovebug a serial rapist.
Christine was a mixed blessing for Mopar fans. The upside is that it brought attention to one of the best looking, but mostly over-looked, cars of the 1950s. I’m sure many were saved from the crusher after the car built up a fanbase following this movie.
The downside is for those that already were fans of these cars. Prices have gone through the roof for cars AND parts. And the most obvious downside was that a large number of 1957 and 1958 Plymouths were destroyed in the making of the film.
I don’t think anyone would shed a tear over the destruction of any of the new hybrids.
Female mechanic? Obviously, science fiction.
Dude, put down the Old Milwaukee, and step into the 2000s.
If you’re real nice, I might even let you hand me my torque wrench.
I wonder if the (human) star winds up getting rescued by a clean diesel in the end…that would be cool.
Get’im, Lesley!
Actually, let’s see…at today’s exchange rate that might be around $970k AND shot in Regina. You smell Oscar?
Yeah I can see it. And apparently the thing takes place pretty much entirely in a parking garage so you’re saying Regina parkades look different than Chicago parkades?
It’s gotta be a Prius. P*ssed-off Prius gets revenge on the mechanic after she gives it the finger when she realizes she won’t get a tax credit after all for purchasing green depending where she lives. Then the Prius overcharges its battery by spinning its tires (good and LOUD in that parking garage) and then releases the brake, chases her around for an hour and a half—also further keeping the battery going into supercharge mode ’cause she left her torque wrench under the hood and it is shorting out—and then rams her against a couple cars (a Fury would be nice, and an old T.A., maybe a Pinto?) and WHAAAMM BLAMMMM!!!! Big-butt explosion from the unsafe mixture of electrical and gasoline hybrid engine.
Sound good?
Whaddya say Roeper and Ebert? How about the folks at ain’t it cool?
Line up now, fans! Could be a record-breaking lineup like before SW Ep I.
Do you suppose it’s Bob Lutz’s idea of product placement for the Volt?
Well, remember: hybrids running in battery mode make so little noise that I’ve read hysterical articles about needing to add a noisemaker so pedestrians hear ’em coming — not a big leap to the idea of one sneaking up on you.
Presumably to say “boo”.