Black Moon Rising (1986) had a video cover that was always in my mind’s eye and even though it was scripted by one of my favourite directors, John Carpenter, took me a very long time to actually see what it was all about. Turns out that it’s a great Eighties super-car B-movie that has everything you could ever want – Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton being cool as cucumber thieves at cross purposes, car chases at night, saxophone for the love scenes, a scene in a New Wave club, a Lalo Schrifin score, the lead singer of FEAR as a henchman (Lee Ving), and did I mention Tommy Lee Jones being very cocky in black denim jeans? While definitely of the time in being part of the wave of advanced vehicle movies and shows like Blue Thunder and Airwolf, but you know, a car. As a B-movie though, it does feel like the prototype for what Nicolas Winding Refn would aesthetically fetishise in Drive. An underrated action flick. Recommended.
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