This movie is not “The Car”.

The movie has a black haunted car which looks like something from the 1950s, and it is set in the Pacific Northwest I think.  I remember two scenes, one where there are some totem poles and a sacred circle drawn by a shaman the car can’t enter, and in the other scene, the car crashes and catches fire, and a police officer opens the door to save the driver but it’s just sticky black goo.  Scared the crap out of me as a little kid.

I saw this movie while I was in middle school, early 80s.  It was American.  A lab is working on a time machine, and the main scientist is an older woman.  They bring an ape, or maybe an early prehistoric man into the present.  It’s a serious movie, not a comedy or anything like that.  I remember that the woman forms a bond because the ape shows unusual intelligence and emotion, but other scientists are the generic uncaring types who want to dissect him or whatever.  The thing I remember the most is that the woman tries to escape from the lab with the ape, but they are chased by a helicopter, and I think getting shot at, and the only way to escape is for both of them to jump into the time machine chamber and she goes back to whatever-BC with the ape.  I have been trying to find this movie for years, with no luck!