8 Horror Movies Where Only One Person Dies
3. Duel
Steven Spielberg's Duel is famously the iconic director's precursor to Jaws. Much like Jaws had an unrelenting Great White causing all kinds of fear as its mean plot point, Duel's force of nature was a Peterbilt 281 truck.
In that 1971 offering, said truck spends the entirety of the movie hunting down Dennis Weaver's David Mann and his Plymouth Valiant.
What is so fascinating about Duel, is the mystique that surrounds the truck at its centre. There's no reason or rhyme given for why the truck opts to torment David, there's no explanation or backstory as to who this truck driver is, and the movie doesn't even ever fully show said twisted truck driver.
This is a stripped-back and minimalist picture, with the driving force of the film simply being two vehicles on an open road. And much like the plot of the movie is very 'less is more,' so too is the body count of Spielberg's '71 made-for-TV effort.
When it comes to the body count, the solitary victim is the mysterious truck driver - he and his truck going off the cliff edge of a canyon at the end of the movie.