Let’s Go For a Relaxing Ride in the CountryBritish Horror Studio again impresses me with their economy of film making. This movie is one lonely forest track, a classic car, and about seven actors and it makes a really good psychological thriller out of it. Megan Tremethick plays the ghost lady who moves in such an unnerving way like a marionette whose strings are tangled. My back hurts watching that. Laurence R Harvey is what if Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre were the same person. They were my two favorite characters and sadly weren’t in the movie nearly enough. Megan Tremethick should have been in the background of every scene just haunting the entire movie. Novarro Ramon, Sam Barclay, and Dorian Todd are our three hapless guys landed in the middle of the haunted woods. They do a great job as three separate characters so you never get muddled who is who. The car looks amazing, they don’t get to do a ton with it for obvious reasons it is a museum piece. This is a fun little brain melter of a movie shot all in black and white giving it a real 50s feel to it. It doesn’t feel like a modern movie aping old time movie making with fake film grain or fake VHS tracking but with a modern feel. This does a great job of being an old time movie and does it with a minimum of budget and resources which is a real accomplishment. Horrors of 2026 - 88
