Blogger Stacie Ponder's horror columns appear every Wednesday.

Let's get one thing clear up front: I'm not a "gearhead," as the kids might say. I'm not into cars as a hobby, a status symbol or a sport. If you are, that's cool, but in my opinion, cars are simply tools that serve a purpose, like screwdrivers and crimping irons. Cars get you from Point A to Point B in varying degrees of luxury and comfort, and that's about it... unless, of course, we're talking about scary movies. We all know that in the world of horror, cars hate you. We've all seen countless films where cars decide not to work at the precise moment that you really effing need them to, that moment when the mask-wearing, overall-sporting, pointy implement-wielding cookadook is about to make with the stab-stab.

What about movies featuring cars that aren't satisfied to merely abandon you in your time of need, but rather the cars that must kill? Are they ever... well, are they ever scary? Better yet, does it matter? Honestly, I don't think there'll ever be a film featuring a killer car that's going to leave me wide awake at night, terrified beyond all get-out with my blankets pulled up to my chin, wondering if that car I hear driving down my street is coming to kill me. Something tells me it's just not gonna happen. Just because they're not necessarily terrifying doesn't make killer car movies any less fun, however.

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