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Wheels of Terror (1990)

Wheels of Terror poster
Directed by
Christopher Cain
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
R
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A bus driver pursues a mysterious gray car that kidnaps her daughter. The car's driver targets young girls in a small Arizona town.

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What happens

Wheels of Terror (also known as Terror in Copper Valley) is a 1990 American made-for-television thriller film directed by Christopher Cain and starring Joanna Cassidy and Marcie Leeds. The film originally debuted on the USA Network in 1990. The plot concerns the unseen driver of a primer gray Dodge Charger, (consisting of mixed year's makes 1971, 1974) kidnapping, molesting, and sometimes murdering young girls around the fictional locale of Copper Valley, Arizona and a bus driver who chases the car, after it kidnaps her daughter played by Marcie Leeds. Marcie Leeds was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Cable Special. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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