10 Most Inventive Chase Sequences In Slasher Movies
6. The Strangers: Prey At Night - This Car Is On Fire
When the sequel to the home invasion slasher The Strangers came out 10 years after the release of the first film, fans weren't completely sold on turning the cult-followed movie into a franchise.
However, while the movie wasn't loved by fans in the same way the original was, it did have a few things going for it, including the casting of the sensational Christina Hendricks in a lead role. Still, the movie's final sequence sticks out as the most iconic part of the movie, and for good reason.
After shooting Dollface with a dead policeman's gun, Kinsey attempts to get to safety in the officer's car. But she is crashed into, twice, with Baghead's pick-up truck, sending her flying onto the pavement.
Kinsey grabs the lighter from her pocket and throws it into the fuel that's pouring from underneath Baghead's car, sending the two cars up in an explosion of flames. She walks off like a badass thinking she's safe, but you see the pick-up truck slowly start to stalk behind her, still completely encroached in flames.
The car stalks after Kinsey as a soft-rock anthem blares on the soundtrack. Kinsey runs for a bridge, losing energy as she tries to escape the flaming vehicle, collapsing to her knees and eventually army crawling away desperately.
When the car door opens slowly, you immediately think that's the end for her, but then you get a look at Baghead. His mask has melted into his face and he falls to the ground, dying only inches away from his prey as he grasps desperately at the shard of glass sticking through his stomach.
Car chases aren't only for action movies it seems.