Cinema likes haunting things. We've had haunted houses. We've had haunted dolls. We've had haunted spouses, haunted children, haunted boxes, haunted schools, haunted roads. But I don't believe that I've ever before seen a film about a haunted car.
[Please note: Todd was not yet caffeinated when he wrote this and forgot about the incredibly obvious example of Christine. Because he's kind of stupid that way.] Oleg Assadulin's
Маршрут построен (romanized as
Marshrut Postroen, literally translated as
The Route Is Built) changes that.
A veteran genre director the director of
The Phobos and
Dark World 2 here tells the story of a young couple that jump at the chance to buy a high end car at a low end price. What they don't know is that the original owner killed his wife and hid her body in the trunk for a time and in the trunk her spirit remains. And she doesn't much care for it when the couple begin to argue in the front seat.
This is a slickly produced affair with a solid central concept and very high end production values. Take a look at the trailer below.