Elliot Silverstein is an American film director.

The review discusses his 1977 film La Macchina Nera (The Car), starring James Brolin.

The provided review considers Elliot Silverstein's La Macchina Nera (The Car, 1977) a modest genre film that left lasting unease in viewers. It compares the film to Duel and Jaws, suggests religious readings, and likens the black car to Kubrick's monolith as a concentrated form of fear.

For:Fans of cult horror and genre cinema; readers interested in film memory and 1970s popular cinema.

 Among the classic films of the late '70s, which were repeatedly shown on private networks in the '80s, "La macchina nera" (The Car) by Elliot Silverstein holds a special place, not for the intrinsic qualities of the feature film, a genre film that emulates works of much higher caliber like Spielberg's "Duel" and "Jaws" (but which may have perhaps provided some inspiration to King for "Christine"), but for the unease it managed to instill in the naive viewers who, as children or teenagers, saw it programmed at regular intervals on the cathode tube.

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