Four years before Jaws made crowds pee their loon pants, a young Steven Spielberg gave the same bad PR to motorways. The year was 1971, the 'shark' was a truck and the film was Duel. It was a killer-simple concept. Dennis Weaver plays David Mann, an Everyman with a dead-end job, driving across California.
When he cuts up a rusty gas tanker, the unseen driver (does he even exist?) takes umbrage, dedicating the rest of his day to making David roadkill.
It's the monster's lack of motive, or of mind, which terrifies the most - seeming to vroom out of our deepest fears and spawning a host of imitators form The Hitcher to Jeepers Creepers and beyond. Spielberg's one-track highway to hell is one seriously scary movie.
Extras include original traiiler and three featurettes including a conversation .with Spielberg on maing the film.
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