Trunk shot

[1] Although he did not invent it, Tarantino popularized the trunk shot, which is featured in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Inglourious Basterds.

[3] Another use of the shot is in 1967 film In Cold Blood (directed by Richard Brooks) after the two outlaws cross the borders to Mexico in a stolen car.

In the thriller Spasmo, directed by Umberto Lenzi in 1974, this shot can be seen when the main character opens the trunk and a dead man appears.

Paul Thomas Anderson used the shot in his short film Cigarettes & Coffee (1993) and Jonathan Mostow in Breakdown (1997).

In it, Tommy Vercetti and Lance Vance pull weaponry from a car's trunk before storming in on Ricardo Diaz's mansion.