Double Bill Brilliance of Jack Hill

Continuing on from yesterday’s family horror film, we progress to Jack Hill’s follow-up effort: a racing movie which quietly doubles as a portrait of American youth culture at the brink of a new era. Between its artfully composed set pieces and nuanced human drama, this is the B-movie at its finest.

Once aptly described as the “Howard Hawks of the exploitation film” by Quentin Tarantino, B-movie maestro Jack Hill made something of a masterpiece with this experimental yet entirely unpretentious horror film and its inspired flurry of styles. Did we mention it also stars Lon Chaney?