[Inspector Abberline]

Red Asphalt (1964)


This time another 1960's capsule from the driving education school of scaring the hell out of youth of the day.This time produced by the California Highway Patrol again we are introduced to a patrol man and a rookie camera man out on his first assignment to film the the latest human road kill.Film making wise this is not Spielberg,actually it resembles an HG Lewis movie more than anything,at least in this there is a sound reason why the acting is pretty terrible.Also thematically there is no difference to this film and any other road safety movies,the only thing that really changes throughout the years is the fact they get more gruesome.The first RED Asphalt film is fairly tame compared to most,allot of the injuries on display are minor head wounds caused by hitting the wind-shield,but as the film progresses through its carnival of wrecked,burnt ,bent and trashed vehicles the blood does decidedly get more fluid,In particularly two airline pilots who didn't bother wearing belts in there car and suffer some terrible head damage with the blood saturating the pairs heads.After a while I thought I would get use to seeing these sort of things,but just maybe its having the apposite effect on me,Im finding it more difficult to sit through these films.And as the film finishes,Im thinking wow I made it through another one they left the worst crash to last,as a car is literally torn in two and the driver is dragged out of his car with his jaw hanging of.