Video: The Flame-Throwing Buick Skylark of “Bellflower”

While some of you may be loathe to admit it, you’ve probably had a post-apocalyptic fantasy or two. You know, imagining an end-of-the-world scenario where you and a handful of friends survive and have to rebuild (or further ravage) society in a collection of cobbled-together muscle cars while scrapping by an existence from the leftovers of the modern world. When you put it in writing, it sounds a lot less appealing, but in our heads it is just plain old awesome.

So for all you fans of the original Mad Max comes a new indie post-apocalyptic movie called “Bellflower.” Don’t let the name fool you though, as the star of this movie is a 1972 Buick Skylark named “Medusa” with a supercharged 350 and flame-throwing exhaust stacks sticking out of the trunk.

Billed as some kind of post-apocalyptic love story/bromance film, the movie (set to premier at the Sundance film festival) follows two friends obsessed with building a flame-throwing Buick armed to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction. These two men hope and pray for the day when the world is laid to waste, clearing the way for them to form their own gang, “Mother Medusa.”

The car has been making its rounds across the auto show circuit and recently popped up at the New York Auto Show (hidden in a corner of the basement so we never saw it…) There are a ton of videos up on YouTube showing this bad ass Buick spitting fire out of the trunk stacks, and we’re going to predict that this begins a new trend among hot rodders and muscle car fans. Seriously though, we can’t wait to see this film and more of the Medusa Buick and the rest of Bellflower.