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Christine (1983)

Director: John Carpenter

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From Time Out Film Guide

Carpenter and novelist Stephen King share not merely a taste for genre horror but a love of '50s teenage culture; and although set in the present, Christine reflects the second taste far more effectively than the first. It concerns a demonic 1958 Plymouth Fury which not only suffocates its victims to blasts of Larry Williams' 'Boney Moronie', but also reconstitutes itself before the naked eye like some fetishistic amoeba, incidentally transforming its puny owner from a pimply nonentity into one of the baddest boys on the block. All of this works rather well as black comedy. But from the horror perspective, Carpenter is only the latest in a long line of film-makers who've been seduced by King's sheer plausibility as a writer. Off the page, a 1958 Plymouth is no more scary than the St Bernard which romped through Cujo.

Author: DP 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • Stuart said...
    Posted on Dec 12 2007 16:43 This horror / 50's retro hommage is as tightly organised as you could wish and as a symbol of the seductiveness of evil, Christine, the car takes some beating. See it.
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Director: John Carpenter

Producer: Richard Kobritz

Cast: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford full cast

Genre(s): Horror

Duration: 110 mins

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