Gallery: *Rubber'*s Psycho Tire Rolls Into Pantheon of Road-Rage Cinema

  • Rubber tire versus cop car
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    *In* Rubber*, a tire named Robert gives new meaning to road rage. Image courtesy Magnolia/Magnet.*
  • Rubber star Roxane Mesquida
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    Rubber *stars Roxane Mesquida as the object of a spare tire's obsession. Image courtesy Magnolia/Magnet.*
  • Rubber wheels on fire
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    *Robert,* Rubber*'s rolling villain, contemplates a blazing junk-heap inferno. Image courtesy Magnolia/Magnet.*
  • The Car
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    *In 1977's* The Car*, a black sedan — modeled after the real-life luxury vehicle of Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey — runs over a hippie tooting a French horn.*
  • Neal
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    *Offering a water-bound variation on the road-rage genre,* Neal*, which screened last month at South by Southwest, tells the story of a floating pool-cleaning device that stalks a female swimmer.*
  • Killdozer
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    *Inspired by Theodore Sturgeon's 1944 novella of the same name, 1974 made-for-TV movie* Killdozer! *pitted construction workers against a homicidal bulldozer after a meteorite hits Earth. It spawned this Marvel Comics adaptation.*
  • Duel
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    *Steven Spielberg's 1971 directorial debut,* [Duel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(1971_film))*, starred Dennis Weaver as a frantic motorist terrorized by a truck.*
  • Christine
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    *John Carpenter's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's* Christine *followed a self-repairing 1958 Plymouth Fury that was expert in the ways of vehicular manslaughter.*
  • Maximum Overdrive
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    *Directed by Stephen King from his own script, 1986's* [Maximum Overdrive](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/) *portrays semitrailers that take over a truck stop in the wake of an alien invasion.*
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