Looking for great, intense scenes of hopefully slo-motion car crashes.

March 6, 2015 10:22 AM

Doing a visual project for work. I'm looking for movies (or ads) that have great, highly visual car crashes. Slow motion glass shattering etc. Hopefully less action movie and more real life cars and actors. Fast and the Furious vehicles might be a bit over the top for what I am trying to do. But I'll take any and all suggestions. Anyone who has any favourite car crash scenes they want to mention, I'd love any and all advice which movies or commercials to look for.
posted by cascando to Media & Arts (10 answers total)

One word: Ronin.
Car chase 1 (countryside/town). Car chase 2 (city).
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:24 AM on March 6, 2015

Yeah if I was looking for every conceivable angle of ultra slo mo car crashes, I'd turn to crash tests.
posted by Erasmouse at 3:00 PM on March 6, 2015

Drunk driving PSAs
posted by saucysault at 4:29 PM on March 6, 2015

Have you considered the film Crash by David Cronenberg? It is a movie about car crashes. (And other things, but car crashes are key.)
posted by rednikki at 11:54 PM on March 6, 2015

The Vow
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 11:55 PM on March 6, 2015

Sorry, I totally read the question as "car chases" not "car crashes" earlier. There are still a few crashes in Ronin though.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 1:24 AM on March 7, 2015

Romeo is Bleeding has a great crash scene.
posted by fullerine at 2:55 PM on March 7, 2015

Thai life insurance commercial has a slow motion car wreck
posted by pushing paper and bottoming chairs at 7:40 PM on March 7, 2015

This New Zealand Anti-Speeding PSA is intense, but focuses on the calm before the storm. The storm part though, especially when contrasted with time-stopped calm section, is particularly intense.
posted by guy72277 at 1:17 AM on March 9, 2015

I found the car crash scene from Adaptation to be quite jarring/realistic.
posted by doctord at 8:51 AM on March 9, 2015