青少年sexuality in the lurid affect, 關(guān)于工業(yè)恐懼與over-obssession,殺人的車也只是陷入狂熱愛戀的女人。John Carpenter對于原著的改編不僅保留了精彩之處,也有凸顯自己auteurship的各種元素,幾個Chrstine屠殺的戲從mise-en-scene到鏡頭節(jié)奏上都堪稱完美。Keith Gordon對于主角慢慢被狂熱侵蝕的過程演繹的非常到位,然而可惜的是結(jié)尾確實(shí)有點(diǎn)草草結(jié)束。本片應(yīng)該與“鈦”,柯南伯格的“撞車”進(jìn)行intertextual analysis,而電影中隱約的homosocialism應(yīng)該是Chrstine無法“得逞”原因之一, even she knows she can't win over gays.