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Friday, July 5, 2013

Christine (1983)

“Christine” is a great movie about an evil car that slowly possesses its owner. Just like in “Halloween”, director John Carpenter doesn’t try to explain why the car is evil, it just is. I have never read the book written by Stephen King but I’m told that this movie is only inspired by it and is not a true adaptation. And that’s ok because the film feels like a Stephen King story and contains many of the stock characters that he tends to use in his books.

In the movie, Christine is bought by a nerdy senior high school student named Arnie. Against the advice of his best friend Dennis to do so and then when his parents disapprove of the purchase, Arnie is forced to keep Christine at a junkyard. These early events, along with his trouble with bullies, help isolate Arnie from everything except his car. Soon his car is in pristine condition, Arnie has a girlfriend and everything is great until Dennis suffers a major injury during a football game. Did the accident happen just because Dennis saw Christine? Soon the bullies from school find where Christine is kept and they have a grand time tearing the car about. But Christine is EVIL, and as Arnie watches, Christine fixes itself and begins a thrilling hunt for revenge. The film’s climax takes place at the junkyard garage where Arnie is fatally wounded and Dennis is able to destroy Christine with a C.A.T.

I also want to say that I adore the Furturama episode that is combines elements from “Christine” and “The Wolf Man”, having Bender turn into a Were-Car after being attacked by one.


Favorite moment – When Christine traps the bully Moochie in a thin, enclosed truck loading dock. With the boy trapped, Christine forces itself into the small space and crushes him to death.


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