Poor Eric Valette. After turning out the brilliant - and criminally underseen - Malefique it took the talented French director years to get his next project set up and when he finally did it ended up being the less than spectacular Hollywood remake of Takashi Miike's less than spectacular J-horror flick One Missed Call. By the time the original film came around the J-horror boom was already in its death throes and by the time the remake came out nobody gave a damn any more and Valette's introduction to American audiences ended up being a film that critics hated and audiences ignored. Luckily, though, Valette's got more up his sleeve. He's currently at work on an adaptation of The Clock Tower but before that comes out he's got car-horror flick Hybrid.

Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The garage's female mechanic, Tilda, and her young, hip fellow mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own: it morphs into different cars to confuse them and rather than need an engine to run, it breathes. It's a killing machine that is capable of outrunning and outwitting humans. In a high-octane fight to the death, it's our group of determined humans versus the car in this supernatural action-adventure in the vein of Stephen King's Christine.

Vehicle-horror flicks used to be a solid subgenre unto themselves and with oil politics dominating headlines the way they are you can make a pretty good case that now's the time for the genre to make a comeback. But success or failure what I know about this film is that our friends at Bloody Disgusting have turned up a stack of images for it and they've already got a whole lot more personality that Valette's last film.