DEATH PROOF

Quentin Tarantino’s sixth movie is not for the faint-hearted… although that’s pretty much true of any film made by the director most unlikely to ever be asked to do a Jane Austen adaptation. This homage to low-budget Seventies slasher and car chase movies sees Kurt Russell as the ageing Stuntman Mike preying on young women using modified cars that are supposedly ‘death proof’. His first is a 1971 Chevrolet Nova, then he upgrades to a black 1969 Dodge Charger 440 – which references the Bullitt Charger’s colour, has the same wheels as The Dukes of Hazzard car and the same registration number as the Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry machine. A total of six Chargers were used for filming, only one of which survived the brutal chase scene where it ultimately came off worst against a vengeful 1970 Dodge

Challenger.