I know very little about the 1977 thriller Sorcerer, except for the poster and the film's trailer. Both spotlight this terrifying scene.

It gave me anxiety as a kid, and I still feel a little twinge, even today. I was reminded of it a decade ago when I was driving a rented vehicle on a narrow road in New Mexico. One side was a mountain; the other, a straight drop of unknown distance. And it wasn't a great road to begin with. We were trying to visit an old ghost town, but gave up (the ghost?) and found a way to turn around and put that desire out of our minds.

Scary Highways

That tiny two-lane did not make the list of the most feared roads in America, as tallied by Gunther Mitsubishi , but another New Mexico stretch on which I've traveled did. It's U.S. 285, and it's the

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