A few brave movies did attempt to explain how and why a vehicle could turn evil. 1983's Christine centered around a 1958 Plymouth Fury that goes on a rampage because it has serious co-dependency issues with its owner, and the title vehicle of 1980's The Hearse went bad because it once transported the corpse of a Satanist.

Crown International Pictures It only takes one.

The final nail in the tire was Stephen King's directorial debut and farewell, 1986's Maximum Overdrive. In it, all of the world's vehicles and machines turn evil because of a passing comet, but also maybe aliens? Whatever, King was swimming in cocaine for most of that decade anyway.

In Like Father Like Son, a magical Native American switches the minds of a father and son. 18 Again! was totally different; in that one, a man and his grandson switch bodies due to "an accident." Then Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage switched bodies in Vice Versa, which was our high water mark.

Columbia PicturesIn body-swap movies and Judge Reinhold's career.

But Dream A Little Dream pushed the body-swapping genre too far, like the Manhattan Project of hack screenwriting. In this movie, a yoga mishap results in four characters switching bodies and learning important life lessons. 1992's Prelude To A Kiss spelled the end. Alec Baldwin's fiancee decides to make out with a lecherous old man, which naturally causes their souls to switch. Baldwin then has to learn how to love his previously sexy fiancee for her beautiful soul alone, even if it is now housed inside a pervy senior citizen. And since that was about as existentially terrifying as the genre could get, Hollywood called it a day.

20th Century FoxLater, Tina Fey would teach us to love Alec Baldwin regardless of his looks or his soul.

1964 also saw the release of Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte -- starring Davis and directed by the same guy who did Baby Jane -- in which four old women go around murdering people for a variety of reasons. That film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and the race was on. What Ever Happened To Aunt Alice? follows an old lady who hires maids for the sole purpose of killing them and keeping their shit. Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? features an evil old lady who tortures orphans. And What's The Matter With Helen? sees two old ladies trying to avenge their sons' murder convictions by -- you guessed it -- murdering a bunch of people. It's not a great plan.

American International PicturesThey really leaned on making the titles questions for free marketing.

Note that while these were the only roles many aging actresses could secure, male stars continued on as normal, seemingly immune to the ravages of time. Thankfully, Hollywood has long since sorted out all of its issues with older women.

As you've probably deduced from his expression, that man is threatening a passenger plane. That's what the rest of the industry latched onto. In 1972's Skyjacked, a different crazed white dude with a bomb threatens a plane. Several premier leathery overactors volunteer to stop him -- among them Charlton Heston and James Brolin. The film even ripped off the Airport poster.

Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-MayerNowadays, getting skyjacked is just the lonely version of joining the Mile-High Club.

The formula was repeated in 1973 with This Is A Hijack:

Fanfare FilmsThough for maximum effectiveness, you generally want the hijackers in the plane.

Once again, a neatly dressed middle-aged white guy hijacks a plane. While many real-life hijackings were motivated by politics, Hollywood was most comfortable portraying midair terrorists as dumpy Caucasian bank managers. How times change. 1976's Mayday At 40,000 Feet! also features a hijacking, SST: Death Flight has an onboard saboteur, and 1977's The Night They Took Miss Beautiful includes both a kidnapped beauty queen and a nerve toxin.

NBCUniversal Productions"I've had it with these motherfuckin' beauty queens on this motherfuckin' plane!"

Then the Airport franchise came soaring back with Airport '77, in which the hijacker is once again a conservative talk radio fan. There were four Airport movies, by the way. The entire decade was pretty much dedicated to airplanes put in peril by the managers of used car lots.

A few months after Jurassic Park, there was We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. Three guesses as to what it's about.

Universal PicturesWhatever you guessed, the reality is dumber.

Two years later, studio executives wanted to see how far they could push this thing before the public revolted and tarred and feathered them in protest. To that end, they produced Theodore Rex, a movie so bad that even Whoopi Goldberg had to be legally forced to participate in it.

New Line CinemaYou don't say ...

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