Blood Racer

Blood Racer is a live-action auto-racing action horror thriller directed by Julius Avery and Tommy Wirkola.

Plot summary
A tormented race car driver comes across a living car that possesses dangerous weapons and is possessed by the spirit of her murdered daughter. The car begins to take over her mind and gives her terrifying powers. As mother and daughter become one terrifying monster, the racer drives to Fast Fear, a Halloween street race in Los Angeles, at high speed on a mission of revenge.

Credits
Paramount Pictures, Red Granite Pictures and Mandalay Pictures present

An MTV Entertainment Studios production

In association with New Republic Pictures

A Platinum Dunes, Original Film and LuckyChap production

Margot Robbie

BLOOD RACER

Mckenna Grace

Talitha Bateman

Dave Bautista

with Ben Mendelsohn

and Frank Grillo

Casting by Sarah Halley Finn, CSA

Music by Brian Tyler and Jed Kurzel

Costume designer Colleen Atwood

Edited by Chris Lebenzon, p.g.a. and Martin Walsh, p.g.a.

Production designer Dante Ferretti

Director of photography Dariuz Wolski

Executive producer Michael Bay, Joey McFarland, Cathy Schulman, Margot Robbie

Produced by Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller, Neal H Mortiz

Written by Tommy Wirkola

Directed by Tommy Wirkola and Julius Avery

Synopsis
British stock car racers Hazel Morrow and her daughter Sally drive separate cars in a NASCAR race. Sally wins the race, but during her lap of honor, a terrorist bombing destroys her car, killing her. She attempts to put her case to the local police, but they frame her for the attack, forcing her to go on the run.

Four years later, Hazel has given up NASCAR racing in favor of becoming the Blood Racer, a ruthless, masked vigilante for hire, having stolen money and military grade weapons from corrupt businesses, and learned military tactics and martial arts in Europe and Japan. She is approached by clients to steal from or kill rapists or criminals, and challenges them to a street race to commit her business against them, by outdriving or killing them.

In a successful street race in London, she wins £200,000,000 from four gangsters. In retaliation, they destroy her car, but she overpowers them. Interrogating them, she discovers that Race Monsters, an international underground racing league, serves as a front for a terrorist organization behind the attack that killed Sally. She tortures them to death and decides to infiltrate the league in order to take revenge, but must reach Los Angeles before sunset on Halloween in order to take part in Fast Fear, an annual street race from LA to San Francisco.

In Chicago, Hazel finds a Hennesey Venom F5 and takes the car to a chop shop to convert it into a self-driving car and have its VIN changed, her computer and several weapons (including giant circular saws activated by her arms' movements) fitted into it, and a red paint job painted onto it. She uses the £200,000,000 she won in the London race to pay for the whole job.

When a series of strange occurrences begin happening inside the car, Hazel realises that it is possessed by Sally's ghost, and communicates with her. Sally explains that, using a computer fitted into her car, she discovered the attack and other secret information about Race Monsters, some of whose racers were in NASCAR. She attempted to expose it, but the terrorists retaliated by pre-emptively detonating the bomb to kill her and destroy the evidence.

In Las Vegas, Hazel encounters and befriends Mindy, a teenage prostitute for Race Monsters. She offers to help Mindy escape them in exchange for information. Mindy tells Hazel that local Judge John Keefe is secretly on the cartel's payroll, having allowed the kidnappers responsible for her forced prostitution to walk free by manipulating the evidence against them and then quickly dismissing the case. Hazel drives Mindy through the city and, working together, they interrogate and kill Keefe. Hazel allows Mindy to accompany her to Los Angeles to help her get home. When several hitmen attack the car in retaliation, Hazel allows Sally to possess her, acquiring supernatural powers, which she uses to defeat the hitmen.

Hazel and Mindy join the Street Warriors, an organisation composed of Race Monsters' rivals in street racing and weapon sales. When they reach LA ahead of schedule, their new membership allows them to take refuge at the Hercules Hotel, one of many around the globe owned by the Warriors, where Hazel is provided with the means to infiltrate the Monsters.

Hazel travels to a church that serves as a front for the Monsters, where she briefly confronts Leo Vendetti, the head of Race Monsters. She is attacked by several members, but she tortures them to death with her car's saws, destroys their money and blackmail material and obtains a USB drive containing their activities. She encounters FBI agent Henry Ortiz, gives him the drive, and asks him to invite the press to follow her in the race. She then returns Mindy to her family. Vendetti orders his men to kill Hazel during the race, unaware she has infiltrated them. Ortiz accesses the files and discovers Hazel's innocence regarding the bombing that killed Sally. Although he contacts his superiors and informs them of Hazel's activities, as well as contacting the press per her instructions, he plans to protect her from the police and Vendetti's men.

After the race begins, Ortiz discreetly delays the police from reaching Hazel while allowing them to capture several of the Monsters; Hazel kills more of them, revealing herself to the rest in the process. In retaliation, they kidnap Mindy again, along with her family, executing them in Oakland. Before they can do the same to Mindy, Hazel rescues her, brutally torturing and killing the kidnappers - including Hacksaw, the Monsters' most dangerous racer and the last of Sally's killers - in the process, before reaching San Francisco. Outraged and out of options, Vendetti tries to kill Hazel himself, and crashes both their cars at the finish line outside the Transamserica Pyramid, mortally wounding Hazel. Despite her injuries, Hazel uses her car's saws to drill into Vendetti's chest, killing him.

Hazel staggers into a garage and passes her car and mantle, as well as the prize money, onto Mindy before dying. Ortiz arrives and watches as Mindy discovers that the car now has both Hazel and Sally's spirits, and therefore she has acquired Hazel's powers. Ortiz tells her that there are those who agree with Hazel's actions, encouraging Mindy to drive off on her first mission, which she does after the car is repaired.

Cast

 * Margot Robbie as Hazel Morrow / The Blood Racer
 * Gemma Arterton was originally considered for the role.
 * Mckenna Grace as Sally Morrow
 * Ruby Barnhill was originally considered for the role.
 * Joey King as Mindy
 * Talitha Bateman was originally considered for the role.
 * Ben Mendelsohn as Leo Vendetti, the head of Race Monsters
 * Frank Grillo as an Henry Oritz, an FBI agent.
 * Dave Bautista as Hacksaw, Race Monsters' top fighter and racer.

Tagline

 * This Halloween, drive as fast as you can...it's your last ride.
 * I will avenge you.
 * Fear is the fastest driver.
 * From the directors of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and Overlord, and the producers of Fast & Furious, Horns and A Quiet Place.