i love killer car movie ( a people who have read my other review will no doubt know by now ) so as soon a i read about this film and i just have to see it . live in the uk and though and it be near impossible to find and especially since the wheel of terror amazon . co. uk have be actually the 1987 film the misfit brigade and which they mistakenly claim be this film a mb have the alternate title wheel of terror . but finally and after go to a second hand video shop and ask them to use their internet search engine and they find a copy of this film and the genuine article and for me . i must say at the outset that it be well worth the wait to finally see this excellent film . yes and i can see how the plot could be consider a duel rip off and but it manage to be original by throw in a plot about a real horror we must face in real life represent that of a perverted and mysterious child killer . say killer be never actually see in the movie ( not even a glimpse and unlike the duel truck driver whose foot and hand on the steering wheel be see at certain juncture ) but be represent by his omnipresent 74 dodge charger and one of the most menacing vehicle ever see in a movie . i say to a friend recently that i always think black charger make excellent villain car and which be why i be glad tarantino be use one in his death proof segment of grindhouse . joanna cassidy be brilliant in her role a divorced bus driver laura and try to raise her daughter in arizona and and eventually have to save her from the unseen child molester after she be kidnap . i admit i haven not see many film ms. cassidy have make but in the few i have see ( who frame roger rabbit and blade runner and ghost of mar ) and she have be absolutely wonderful . her desperation and determination to save her daughter and ensure the pervert never harm anybody again be very believable . the rest of the cast be okay and though apart from marcie leeds a stephanie and laura daughter and very few of them be on screen long enough to make much of an impact . i agree with some reviewer about the whiny kid on the bus during the big chase sequence be annoying and but at least laura let them out to call the police . and in case youre wonder how the school bus can keep up with the murderous muscle car and there a gratuitous info dump scene near the start where latino mechanic luis point out that he put a racing engine into the bus . why he would do that i do not know but it explain how the bus be able to chase the charger . a you can see and i do believe the film have fault and other main one be the over use of slow motion shot in what suppose to be a climactic car chase and stephanie somehow not notice that a creepy look car be follow her down the street at one point . but apart from those minor gripe and i would rate wot a one of my all time favourite car chase film and i hope that it get the dvd release it so richly deserves . strongly recommend .