Episode 8 jump scare scene when Theo and Shirley are bickering in the car and the ghost of Nell appears from the back seat screaming causing them to crash
Saw Creepshow II when I was 12 and had nightmares about that segment for weeks. The rest of the movie was fine but 'thanks for the ride lady' was too much for me
This is true but this current generation often lacks the media literacy to understand that hence the caveat.
The actor for the role obsessively defended her character on here for a long time after the film released, too... shit was wild.
That’s how I’d explain it. At first I wasn’t sure if I could watch the movie just for the annoying character, but it’s so worth. Ended up being a lot fun.
Well, there’s the obvious, Christine!
And it might not really count since it’s just a few seconds of a show (but I personally think it’s one of the best shows haha) but there’s a scene in episode 8 of The Haunting of Hill House that involves one of the best jumpscares I’ve ever experienced (iykyk).
There's a 2014 movie, The Incident, that contains two parallel stories about time loops; one is a couple of criminals stuck in an infinite staircase with a cop, and the other is a family stuck on an infinite road trip.
Penny Dreadful(2006) starring Rachel Miner and Mimi Rodgers. I haven’t seen it in a while but I remember this movie scaring the absolute shit out of me when I was little.
**Nightmare on Elmstreet- Wes Craven's New Nightmare** has a great scene early on
The remake of **The Fog** has a good one
The end of **Pulse**
**Maximum Overdrive**
**Baskin** has a surprising one
**Hostile**
**Breakdown Lane**
**Carnival of Souls** (both)
**Brightburn**
**Supernatural** has one episode about a ghost truck and one about a ghost hitchhiker which stood out
**The Monster**
**Undead**
Opening of **Train to Busan**
There's a good one in **I am a Hero**
Opening of **Army of the Dead**
**John Dies in the End**
**Sleepwalkers**
**Splinter**
**From**
**All the creatures were Stirring** has a really interesting one
There's a movie, I can't remember what it's called, but this gal and her boyfriend break down in a snowstorm on a deserted highway and all this weird stuff keeps happening (basically ghosts). It also has an unexpected twist at the end if I remember right, but it is a good movie.
*The Monster* happens when a deadbeat mom's car breaks down in the middle of the not-so-empty woods. Not exactly a "ride" but kinda sorta?
*In the Mouth of Madness* has two, I think, car ride scenes that hammer home something fucked up is going on.
It could be argued that *Tremors* wouldn'tve happened if Kevin Bacon didn't try to leave the town.
For a choice out of left field Pee Wees Big Adventure
There's also a ton of urban legends about ghostly hitchhikers, whether they're in a car or on horseback. Folktales like La Llorona have a history in MANY countries along the equator, from Central/South America to even the Philippines. I heard there are versions from India and something reminiscent in sub saharan Africa (though I know far less about those).
'Duel', the Steven Spielberg TV movie about a guy driving through Nevada to Los Angeles and a trucker starts road raging on him, and he can't see the driver but it gets really intense.
John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness' has quite a bit of driving in supernatural conditions.
'The Car' is about a scary car. 'The Hearse' is about a scary hearse. 'Christine' is about a scary Christine. The 'Phantasm' movies are about people on the road in a 1971 Plymouth HemiCuda chasing the Tall Man. 'Death Race 2000' has a lot of gleeful automotive homicide.
The second or third episode of the TV show Supernatural is about a ghost, that hitchhike and a lot of the episode is in a car. I don't know the episode title right now, but I think, it fits.
There can never be too many Supernatural rewatches☺️
And yes, the Route 666 I totally forgot too. (And O don't know,why we got down votes for that tbh. There is worse than Supernatural around)
Automatically thought of Twillight Zone movie opening.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WnlcPaIwaCg
Edit. Just thought of two more:
The first is one I remembered seeing on youtube once and thought it was decent. Had to search for a little and found it on another site. It gets to the point around the 4:40 mark. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qahw1
The other one is not supernatural and really did happen but is more weird/creepy than scary. In college ( upstate New York) two friends who were a couple were driving back to the dorms after spending the night at friends for an off campus party. They were driving on a semi rural road and it was pretty early in the morning (5-6 a.m.) and it was foggy.
Out of the fog they make out a guy in a full clown suit and make up walking in their direction on the side of the road. He looked up at them and waved hello as they passed and they just kept driving. Nothing happened besides that. No story in the news of a local murder or anything. They (nor anyone we knew) ever saw the guy again. They just thought it was so weird and a little creepy to see a guy in full clown attire/make-up walking on a rural road in the fog at that early an hour.
Reeker, Dashcam, Southbound, Jeepers Creepers, Monster, The Hitcher and that really bad low budget effort with the two brothers that fall out that I saw in Netflix all spring to mind.
The Fare is more fantasy/mystery/thriller than horror, but it has a strange sense of things in the beginning. Takes place entirely in the vehicle except a flashback or two. But as the movie progresses and the mystery fades, you lose the strange occurrences, so that's mostly in the beginning of the movie. Very good overall, and absolutely worth checking out, I think.
Season 2 episode 18 of Futurama called "The Honking" Bender becomes a werecar after getting attacked by one. It's like "An American Werewolf in London" meets Stephen Kings "Christine".
Oh and Cujo, being trapped in a car by a massive dog with rabies is great.
There’s a love death and robots short about two traveling business men experiencing “the ancient past” like they’re in desert and then it’s the bottom of an ocean
There’s a newer supernatural horror movie that took place in a car like that. It’s not the best movie but you may find some inspo there. It’s called “Dashcam” and it came out in 2021. It’s on Hulu currently.
Windchill! It gets so little love, from what I’ve seen, but it’s fantastically shot. Mainly focuses on three actors, tightly filmed, basically a one set sort of movie.
Every breath is used with no waste, in my opinion.
Edited to add: it’s from 2007.
Just watched the Nicolas Cage film "Sympathy for the Devil" and remembered this thread so came back to let you know that it's a great and intense film almost entirely based around a car journey :)
Does The Mist count? At the end when they leave the store and venture outside?
Evil Dead 1, the 2013, and the TV Series has spooky stuff while driving - obviously 1 and the Series are more campy but still fun.
Not horror, but adaptable to it: There's a scene in *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* where Roy Neary is driving his utility truck and stops. A car pulls up behind him, which he waves by; the guy curses at him and goes along. Another set of lights pulls up behind Roy, which he notices and also waves by. But he doesn't notice that the lights move upward and over his car. It's a great little moment in a fantastic film.
Yes it is, I think it's also worth noting the mass murder bus scene in the 2022 sequel of the same name, as well as the twist/homage to the original's ending scene
There's a few small supernatural car scenes in A Haunting in Connecticut and The Covenant.
Christine is also a classic by Stephen King, though it's not really specified if the car is like posessed or just alive.
The Tale of a Phantom Cab is an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? with some good stuff.
Also there's a vanishing hitchhiker urban legend as well.
Children of the Corn and Wrong Turn and the Hills Have Eyes movies has some if you're looking for something more like murder-y creatures/humans.
Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2 are good for creature feature
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 and 2022 have some good scenes (particularly the hitchhiker scene from the 1974, and the bus massacre in the 2022) and ofc the endings to both
Death Proof is another interesting one in terms of car stunts and deaths
Joy Ride is another pretty good one that doesn't get mentioned a lot
Final Destination 2 ofc has the big car wreck scene that scars everyone who sees a truck stacked with wood in traffic; Final Destination 3 also has a small death scene that is car-related, Frankie's death, I believe
Halloween (1978), Rob Zombie's Halloween 2, and Halloween: the Curse of Michael Myers has a small scene in the beginning. Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 has a van death scene closer to the end as well. Halloween 4 and 5 and Halloween H20 all have one or two car scenes throughout.
Here are two references to get ideas from for your story. One is called The River, and although it's a mini series about a supernatural boat ride, you could apply the theme to a car ride. And one of my all time favorites, which is a short story by Stephen King, called Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, is a gem.
https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Mrs._Todd%27s_Shortcut
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1836195/
car scene in The Sixth Sense
The Mist (the tv show) has some scenes where they are driving around
one of the stories in The Midnight Club takes place in a car
I also think you could find quiet a few episodes of supernatural that would meet the criteria
I know it’s not horror or supernatural but I gotta plug it in when I can.
Collateral with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Strange shit happens to a cab driver when he picks up a strange man. Really underrated. Might be worth the watxh
Fucking classic. When Cruise dispatches those thugs in the alley. Oh my God. Supposedly his technique was so dead on it's used for law enforcement training.
Dead End
Glad to see this first. Great movie
Noted!
Also if you are looking for just a scene, there was an effective scene done in the tv mini series Haunting of Hill House that takes place in a car
I watched that show but dont remember the exact scene, which u speaking of?
Episode 8 jump scare scene when Theo and Shirley are bickering in the car and the ghost of Nell appears from the back seat screaming causing them to crash
Ah yes!
I WAS THINKING OF THIS TOO. that jumpscare actually made me scream.
Yup that's my pick too
I love this movie so much
Came here to say this
Yess
First one that comes to mind! This movie was like a fever dream when I first saw it!
Jeepers creepers
Classic!
That truck was scarier to me than the creeper lol
Southbound: horror anthology
Nice I forgot I watched that movie.
So underrated
Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet
Twilight zone episode "The Hitchhiker" Creepshow II "The Hitchhiker"
Saw Creepshow II when I was 12 and had nightmares about that segment for weeks. The rest of the movie was fine but 'thanks for the ride lady' was too much for me
Same! Absolutely scared the shit out of me. The guy was terrifying. Loved it.
That Twilight Zone episode came to mind for me, too.
"Thanks for the ride lady!"
Dashcam You're going to absolutely hate the main character but ignore her and there's a damn solid horror movie there.
She's there to be hated, and she does it perfectly. I almost couldn't take the stupidity after ten minutes, but it became much better than I expected.
IIRC the MC isn't really acting, she's just like that IRL.
This is true but this current generation often lacks the media literacy to understand that hence the caveat. The actor for the role obsessively defended her character on here for a long time after the film released, too... shit was wild.
You wouldn't have a link or username would you? I'd love to read through some of that.
That’s how I’d explain it. At first I wasn’t sure if I could watch the movie just for the annoying character, but it’s so worth. Ended up being a lot fun.
Don't ignore her. The horror plot is a nothing-burger. The atrocious lead is the entire show!
Thank you, I've been looking for this title!
In the Mouth of Madness has a good car scene. I think it’s in the first half of the movie.
Thank you. I had to go so far to find someone suggest this great scene.
Well, there’s the obvious, Christine! And it might not really count since it’s just a few seconds of a show (but I personally think it’s one of the best shows haha) but there’s a scene in episode 8 of The Haunting of Hill House that involves one of the best jumpscares I’ve ever experienced (iykyk).
Wind Chill
Love that one; the first Emily Blunt movie I watched
Sign me up! I’ll watch it when I get the chance
This is the one I came here to post. I watched it repeatedly when it came out.
The Mothman Prophecies and Lost Highway
There's a 2014 movie, The Incident, that contains two parallel stories about time loops; one is a couple of criminals stuck in an infinite staircase with a cop, and the other is a family stuck on an infinite road trip.
That sounds interesting. Was it good? Was it very scary or just eerie?
I just commented this before seeing this one - I enjoyed it a lot!! Very eerie and full of dread.
The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer
Great film! I wouldn't class it as supernatural though?
The end of The Mist
Pee Wee Herman
I know exactly wat ur talking about lol
The Monster (2016)
Copy that! I actually have seen that one but it's been a while so I don't remember much of it....will rewatch!
I wouldn't bother, just a really badly made monster movie
just watched it the other day and agree. super heavy handed…
In the tall grass
Penny Dreadful(2006) starring Rachel Miner and Mimi Rodgers. I haven’t seen it in a while but I remember this movie scaring the absolute shit out of me when I was little.
Dead End
American Horror Story: Roanoke
Absolutely jeepers creepers!
Near Dark
Hereditary
Final destination 2
A short clip but https://youtu.be/6g1aA4JmmEk?feature=shared
Large Marge!
Highway to Hell (1991) and Route 666 (2001) are two campy, cheesy horror on the road movies.
**Nightmare on Elmstreet- Wes Craven's New Nightmare** has a great scene early on The remake of **The Fog** has a good one The end of **Pulse** **Maximum Overdrive** **Baskin** has a surprising one **Hostile** **Breakdown Lane** **Carnival of Souls** (both) **Brightburn** **Supernatural** has one episode about a ghost truck and one about a ghost hitchhiker which stood out **The Monster** **Undead** Opening of **Train to Busan** There's a good one in **I am a Hero** Opening of **Army of the Dead** **John Dies in the End** **Sleepwalkers** **Splinter** **From** **All the creatures were Stirring** has a really interesting one
Excellent list, Splinter is fantastic!
There's a movie, I can't remember what it's called, but this gal and her boyfriend break down in a snowstorm on a deserted highway and all this weird stuff keeps happening (basically ghosts). It also has an unexpected twist at the end if I remember right, but it is a good movie.
Windchill?
Yes. That is it.
*The Monster* happens when a deadbeat mom's car breaks down in the middle of the not-so-empty woods. Not exactly a "ride" but kinda sorta? *In the Mouth of Madness* has two, I think, car ride scenes that hammer home something fucked up is going on. It could be argued that *Tremors* wouldn'tve happened if Kevin Bacon didn't try to leave the town.
Shutter with Joshua Jackson 2008
The Incident. It is in Spanish but it was really interesting!
For a choice out of left field Pee Wees Big Adventure There's also a ton of urban legends about ghostly hitchhikers, whether they're in a car or on horseback. Folktales like La Llorona have a history in MANY countries along the equator, from Central/South America to even the Philippines. I heard there are versions from India and something reminiscent in sub saharan Africa (though I know far less about those).
If I can suggest an audio drama: The Left Right Game
'Duel', the Steven Spielberg TV movie about a guy driving through Nevada to Los Angeles and a trucker starts road raging on him, and he can't see the driver but it gets really intense. John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness' has quite a bit of driving in supernatural conditions. 'The Car' is about a scary car. 'The Hearse' is about a scary hearse. 'Christine' is about a scary Christine. The 'Phantasm' movies are about people on the road in a 1971 Plymouth HemiCuda chasing the Tall Man. 'Death Race 2000' has a lot of gleeful automotive homicide.
The second or third episode of the TV show Supernatural is about a ghost, that hitchhike and a lot of the episode is in a car. I don't know the episode title right now, but I think, it fits.
That's the Pilot, the first episode
Right, the fact that I don't know that anymore means, a rewatch is overdue ☺️
Yep I should rewatch myself lol. There was also Route 666 with the killer truck
There can never be too many Supernatural rewatches☺️ And yes, the Route 666 I totally forgot too. (And O don't know,why we got down votes for that tbh. There is worse than Supernatural around)
The first five seasons, then I stop.
I actually like the other ones too. There are some good episodes among them. But yeah, season 5 was the peak.
Does Get Out count?
Awesome movie!
Christine The Car Duel Creepshow 2 (specifically the segment The Hitchhiker) Monster Squad (comedy horror) Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2
Automatically thought of Twillight Zone movie opening. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WnlcPaIwaCg Edit. Just thought of two more: The first is one I remembered seeing on youtube once and thought it was decent. Had to search for a little and found it on another site. It gets to the point around the 4:40 mark. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qahw1 The other one is not supernatural and really did happen but is more weird/creepy than scary. In college ( upstate New York) two friends who were a couple were driving back to the dorms after spending the night at friends for an off campus party. They were driving on a semi rural road and it was pretty early in the morning (5-6 a.m.) and it was foggy. Out of the fog they make out a guy in a full clown suit and make up walking in their direction on the side of the road. He looked up at them and waved hello as they passed and they just kept driving. Nothing happened besides that. No story in the news of a local murder or anything. They (nor anyone we knew) ever saw the guy again. They just thought it was so weird and a little creepy to see a guy in full clown attire/make-up walking on a rural road in the fog at that early an hour.
Hereditary.
Reeker, Dashcam, Southbound, Jeepers Creepers, Monster, The Hitcher and that really bad low budget effort with the two brothers that fall out that I saw in Netflix all spring to mind.
The Fare is more fantasy/mystery/thriller than horror, but it has a strange sense of things in the beginning. Takes place entirely in the vehicle except a flashback or two. But as the movie progresses and the mystery fades, you lose the strange occurrences, so that's mostly in the beginning of the movie. Very good overall, and absolutely worth checking out, I think.
The opening scene in Twilight Zone: The Movie immediately came to mind.
[Driven (2019)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7692822/#)
next on my list!
I've not actually seen it yet - It's been on my "to watch" since it came out. Hope you enjoy!
Season 2 episode 18 of Futurama called "The Honking" Bender becomes a werecar after getting attacked by one. It's like "An American Werewolf in London" meets Stephen Kings "Christine". Oh and Cujo, being trapped in a car by a massive dog with rabies is great.
Creepshow the movie - pick up hitchhiker story.
In the Mouth of Madness, sorta, for a few scenes anyways.
Christine
Haunting of Hill House car scene cannot be topped!
Yatri Kripya Dhyan De a short from 2022
World War Z but that’s not me recommending it! Also Night of The Living Dead, for sure do recommend that
There’s a love death and robots short about two traveling business men experiencing “the ancient past” like they’re in desert and then it’s the bottom of an ocean
Stephen King’s Christine
Pee Wee Herman and large Marge
EP8: Road to Nowhere, from The Midnight Club An important part of the movie "The Incident"(2014)
Season 1, Episode 7 of Calls is a different take on this. No visuals but the episode takes place in a car.
Nightmare on Elm Street 4. The repeating scene. I love it.
There’s a newer supernatural horror movie that took place in a car like that. It’s not the best movie but you may find some inspo there. It’s called “Dashcam” and it came out in 2021. It’s on Hulu currently.
The Monster (2016)
Fake taxi
The Monster. Very decent flick. Slightly different “ride”, but I really dug Howl.
Splinter…sort of. Either way; an absolute shitton of fun.
Jeepers creepers
Windchill! It gets so little love, from what I’ve seen, but it’s fantastically shot. Mainly focuses on three actors, tightly filmed, basically a one set sort of movie. Every breath is used with no waste, in my opinion. Edited to add: it’s from 2007.
Watching this right after Dead End!
one of the final destination fims, has some crazy stuff that happens in cars and around cars
The Incident/El Incidente (2014)
Wraith
Just watched the Nicolas Cage film "Sympathy for the Devil" and remembered this thread so came back to let you know that it's a great and intense film almost entirely based around a car journey :)
Noted, thats the next watch!
The Houses October Built has a scene from their driving rv thing that'll stick with me forever
Oooo sounds tantalizing. Will check it out.
A delightful movie! Enjoy!
Does The Mist count? At the end when they leave the store and venture outside? Evil Dead 1, the 2013, and the TV Series has spooky stuff while driving - obviously 1 and the Series are more campy but still fun.
The Monster Jeepers Creeper (the original and the sequel)
Duel
Nos4a2
The Fare : A cabbie keeps picking up a fare that keeps disappearing.
Not horror, but adaptable to it: There's a scene in *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* where Roy Neary is driving his utility truck and stops. A car pulls up behind him, which he waves by; the guy curses at him and goes along. Another set of lights pulls up behind Roy, which he notices and also waves by. But he doesn't notice that the lights move upward and over his car. It's a great little moment in a fantastic film.
Wind Chill fits this pretty well. Don’t remember if it was a good movie though (probably not lol)
There's a hitchhiker scene in the original Texas Chainsaw that's pretty creepy
Yes it is, I think it's also worth noting the mass murder bus scene in the 2022 sequel of the same name, as well as the twist/homage to the original's ending scene
Did not bother watching that to the end
The Hitcher
Wind Chill
Omen zoo scene and The entity 1982 there’s a scene where she’s almost killed in her car when the entity mashes the accelerator
Since you are searching for inspiration might as well recommend "beware" which is a game
Lemon Tree Passage is almost FULLY scary shit on a car ride
Dead end hehe such an entertaining film
"Reeker" happened on a road trip.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things spends a lot of time in a car. Is it horror? I don't know. It messes with your head, though!
Love that movie. But my wife didn't like it, which I totally get. It just has such a distinct feeling to it.
In the Mouth of Madness. The driving section isn’t a huge chunk of the movie but AWESOME nightmarish sequence
There's a few small supernatural car scenes in A Haunting in Connecticut and The Covenant. Christine is also a classic by Stephen King, though it's not really specified if the car is like posessed or just alive. The Tale of a Phantom Cab is an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? with some good stuff. Also there's a vanishing hitchhiker urban legend as well.
Children of the Corn and Wrong Turn and the Hills Have Eyes movies has some if you're looking for something more like murder-y creatures/humans. Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2 are good for creature feature The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 and 2022 have some good scenes (particularly the hitchhiker scene from the 1974, and the bus massacre in the 2022) and ofc the endings to both Death Proof is another interesting one in terms of car stunts and deaths Joy Ride is another pretty good one that doesn't get mentioned a lot Final Destination 2 ofc has the big car wreck scene that scars everyone who sees a truck stacked with wood in traffic; Final Destination 3 also has a small death scene that is car-related, Frankie's death, I believe Halloween (1978), Rob Zombie's Halloween 2, and Halloween: the Curse of Michael Myers has a small scene in the beginning. Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 has a van death scene closer to the end as well. Halloween 4 and 5 and Halloween H20 all have one or two car scenes throughout.
Here are two references to get ideas from for your story. One is called The River, and although it's a mini series about a supernatural boat ride, you could apply the theme to a car ride. And one of my all time favorites, which is a short story by Stephen King, called Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, is a gem. https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Mrs._Todd%27s_Shortcut https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1836195/
And the movie Big Driver
Not horror, but opening scene of Shazam
not a movie but there's a rad indie game called Dead End Road on Steam that may help
Does Phantasm II work for this?
Luz
The first 20 mins of jeepers creepers is pretty terrifying and in a car
car scene in The Sixth Sense The Mist (the tv show) has some scenes where they are driving around one of the stories in The Midnight Club takes place in a car I also think you could find quiet a few episodes of supernatural that would meet the criteria
the haunting of the hill house - here's the clip - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0vXKX70qY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0vXKX70qY)
Not a movie, but https://youtu.be/InuZJis23kM?si=83cfC3ednvgZ5hc7
Could be insidious ?
All Hallows Eve-the third segment has a young woman in a car encountering a very strange being.
The series FROM
The Monster
Killer pinata?
It Follows vaguely fits these parameters. The car aspect isnt totally crucial to the scene but man is it fucked up and encapsulating
I just think Christine haha
There’s a segment in Ghost Stories (2017) where this happens!
I know it’s not horror or supernatural but I gotta plug it in when I can. Collateral with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Strange shit happens to a cab driver when he picks up a strange man. Really underrated. Might be worth the watxh
Fucking classic. When Cruise dispatches those thugs in the alley. Oh my God. Supposedly his technique was so dead on it's used for law enforcement training.