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Plot: Paris townfolk are determined to make a killing in the spare auto parts business, even if it means forcing unsuspecting travelers off a deadly cliff. Most drivers are dying to help them out, and those...( read more read more... ) who don't wind up as living guinea pigs in grisly brain experiments. Also known as THE CARS THAT EAT PEOPLE.

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  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 17, 2008
    odd film set in paris australia, concerening a strange town, and there dealings towards cars, as travellers who travel through, mysteriously get killed, in there cars, and locals, being part of that, one guy settles in after one acident, and starts or trys to startv a new life there, but town may be on verge of collapse, a interesting first effort from peter weir, which has many faults amoung great moments
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 24, 2008
    Overrated by some, but amazingly underrated.
    Weir, before he bacame the director of power, directed this black lil' flick.
    Small town of Paris Australia makes car crashes happen to salvage auto parts and let the local mad doc practice his craft.
    When Camilleri gets crashed, and 'adopted' by the town, he finds it it stranger by the day. And increasingly hard to leave.
    The multiple storylines and theme don't meld perfectly- rowdy car-youths of the town rebelling, town nutters exisiting in thier own strict litttle world which becomes harder to keep together. It reaches a crecendo of death and the youths destroying the town social gathering.

    Still, lots of gorgeous scenery and camera work. And a great uneasy air lingers in a beautiful sunny town. The acting is on par to keep this very good in spots.
    Mellion is a Mayor determined to keep the town together, Jaffer is subtle as his chained down wife, Cameilleri has the perfect look of a trapped animal desperatly driven mad wanting to escape, Miles is perfectly creepy and cloying as the quack doc, and Spence has an effective mostly mute bit as the villiage idiot with cataclysmic actions.

    All in all, a gem worth taking a look at.
    And the Spike rig is always cool. ;)
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 21, 2007
    Hmmm... the story really stunk. And I like bad B cult/horror flicks, but this one was just awful. Skip it & see THE PLUMBER instead.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 18, 2007
    I only knew that Peter Weir was Australian. I had no idea this was the same man who directed Dead Poet's Society and The Truman Show. This low-budget film was obviously a stepping stone to greatness. It's sort of eerie and unsettling in a Stephen King kind of way but it's easily forgettable and can't decide if its a black comedy or a thriller.
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 14, 2007
    Meh. Aussie director Peter Weir's debut film is well made but unfortunately it is let down by the script, which is almost plotless and half-arsed. It has a couple of solid performances and good scenes but the interesting aspects that it was trying to get across just didn't work. Honestly I don't know if this was trying to be a horror, black comedy or a satire, either way it failed on all counts and it just made it seemed pretty pointless in the end.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 21, 2007
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  • 0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    December 17, 2006
    I had never realised this was an Aussie film til I saw it. And what a woeful piece of crap it is! No idea how it achieved cult status anywhere.. nowhere near as clever as the early Peter Jackson stuff or even Mad Max... bad bad craaaaaap!

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  • Rated: (PG)
  • Directed by: Peter Weir
  • Genres: Classics, Comedy
  • Released: January 1, 1974
  • DVD Released: May 4, 2004

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