The dark side of the E-type

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Now that it's December it won't be long before programs, magazines and webzines come up with best-of lists, top 20s and star polls - a guaranteed success. But they are also a pretty lame waist of column inches as all the usual suspects fly by like they did the year before. In the classic car scene it's Jaguar's E-type that's heralded ad nauseum. I can't see it anymore. Or it has to be from its dark side: as the vehicle of choice in a cult movie that is so bad that it nears perfection.

Danger Diabolik (1968) combines all the classic cult ingredients: a leather masked hero; a scantily clad blonde; villains in faux battle dress; lots and lots of speeded up footage on mediterranean b-roads; a black E-type plunging over a cliff and a white one entering a hidden cave by a remote controlled land slide, giving access to what looks to be a hiding place designed by the inventor of the lava lamp. Only seeing is believing. I guess it should end up seriously high in any cult movie Top 10.

(Text Jeroen Booij)

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