Phantom Racer (2009)

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Death Speed

Tagline(s):

Fast, furious and fatal.

Nomination Year: 2024

SYNOPSIS: Cutter and JJ are low-level race car drivers, frenemies, and rivals for the affections of Cutter's girlfriend (and JJ's ex), Tammy. In an important race, the on-track action gets a little heated, and the two crash. JJ walks away, but Cutter's car catches fire and he's unable to escape. JJ walks away from racing and builds a career driving semis hauling race cars to tracks. Seventeen years later, a delivery takes him through his old hometown and he decides to look up Tammy, who is married and raising her and Cutter's (yeah, right) teenage daughter. Her husband is restoring Cutter's old car. Unfortunately, Cutter's ghost is haunting the car and when he sees JJ, he gets pissed and goes on a killing spree, starting with Tammy's husband, and framing JJ for the deaths. For some reason, nobody buys "I'm being framed by a haunted race car" as a defense, so JJ has to rescue the daughter who hates him for killing both of her dads, dodge the law, and stop Cutter once and for all. The first two present major challenges but, as we'll see in the Oblivious clip, the last one is surprisingly easy.

Greg Pearson

Smithee Award Nominations

"Alas, Poor Yorick"
Total Party Wipe Told you you shouldn't have gotten the custom wiper blades.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Deus Ex Machina
Sheriff Running In Hero Has Run-In with Getting Run Over Sheriff doesn't notice oncoming traffic.	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Best One-Liner
"I Said Nothing Funny!" "Hands up and don't try nothing funny."	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Terry Ingram	Directs mainly sappy Hallmark-y MfTV chick flicks now, usually with "Christmas" or "Wedding" in the title: The Wedding Veil series, for instance.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Nicole Eggert	Tammy	Supermodel extraordinaire. Was one of the hotties on "Charles in Charge" and "Baywatch."
Greg Evigan	JJ Sawyer	Probably best known as B.J. McKay on "B.J. and the Bear" (he was the one that wasn't the chimp). But had a decent career. McBride in DeepStar Six, Jim Harvey on "General Hospital," and Harvey Sullivan in Terror Birds, to name a few. Okay, bad examples.
Brenna O'Brien	Jesse	Many small parts in sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Valerie in Girl in Progress. Voiced Rin on "InuYasha: The Final Act."
Adam Battrick	Cutter	BJ Busconi in 12 Hours to Live.
Winston Rekert	Sheriff Hodges	Dr. Michael Terry on "Neon Rider" and TV's "Adderly."
Chad Willett	Cliff	Tom Novak in Nostalgic Christmas; Pastor Ian on "Beyond"; the dad in Broken Diamonds; Peter Engel on "The Cape"; Tom Connor on "Madison."
Luciana Carro	Deputy Monroe	Louanne Katraine on "Battlestar Galactica" (the reboot); Crazy Lee on "Falling Skies"; Sam in Blades of Glory; Anana on "Helix".
Colin Lawrence	Deputy Jackson	Handsome African-British actor who played "Preacher" as well as Coach Clayton on "Riverdale," Janko on "iZombie," and "Skulls" on "Battlestar Galactica" (the new one).


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