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| Text-over-crowded poster for John Carpenter's Christine |
QUICK REVIEW:
Arnie is a bespectacled loser, while his best friend is the football lover-boy. But then Arnie discovers Christine, a wrecked 1958 Plymouth, and he fixes her up. - But Christine is more than just a car ...
Christine is a classical horror flick, which, if Christine had been a whisky bottle instead of a car, could have been called a drama. The best and coolest thing about this high school car horror fare is its look: With cinematography by Donald M. Morgan (Starman (1984)) and the visually masterful, great director John Carpenter (The Thing (1982)), Christine looks rad.
And the 50's music, which must have worked like a childhood-anxiety-provoking element especially for the writer of the novel the film is adapting, Stephen King (The Dead Zone (1983)), is cool. Christine is cool.
Unfortunately, many of the actors are amateurs, and several of the young performances are a bag that's a bit too mixed in quality. Also, a little humor wouldn't have hurt Christine.
Robert Prosky (Last Action Hero (1993)) plays a wonderful mechanic in the film.
Carpenter made this between The Thing (1982) and Starman (1984). He's in his late 60's today and seems to have retired from film-making.
Related review:
John Carpenter: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - Solid action guerilla film-making
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| Only one of the Christine cars are left 'alive' today, and it has reportedly been restored to glory by a collector in Florida |
Watch the cool, original trailer here
Cost: 9.7 mil. $
Box office: 21 mil. $ (North America only)
= Uncertainty
What do you think of Christine?
Name other scary movie vehicles, if you can ... ?
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