Horror fans since I really liked reviewing the 1978 film version of Carrie I thought that i'd take a look at another classic Stephen King film adaptation. However with so many good one it was honestly hard to make a choose which film i'd review and well I thought that i'd go with the film that in all honesty has the nicest car that i've seen in any Stephen King film adaptation and so join me as I review the 1983 John Carpenter film classic that is possibly soon to get a remake with the film in question being called simply just "Christine" enjoy.
The plot of this film is an unpopular nerdy teenager called Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham buys a car for $250 American dollars and it after spending months repairing the car the car itself starts to kill people and it has a negative affect on Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham and so it's up Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham friend Dennis Guilder and Arnie's girlfriend Leigh Cabot to destroy this rebuilding car which is a force of nature before it's far to late. In terms of what I personally thought about the plot of this film in all honesty the plot of this film is fairly decent at best which is a shame because the idea of a killer car coming to life and killing people seemingly at random is indeed a very cool and a very creepy idea this film just needed a strong enough story in order to fully support this idea and that sadly isn't even close to being the case with this film.
Starring in this film is Keith Gordon as Arnie Cunningham , John Stockwell as Dennis Guilder and Alexandra Paul as Leigh Cabot. Also starring in this film is Robert Prosky as Will Darnell , Harry Dean Stanton as Detective Rudy Junkins , Christine Belford as Regina Cunningham , Robert Darnell as Michael Cunningham , Roberts Blossom as George LeBay , Kelly Preston as Roseanne , William Ostrander as Clarence "Buddy" Repperton , Steven Tash as Richie Trelawney , We Have Ted From Friday The 13th Part 2 AKA Stuart Charno as Don Vandenberg , Malcolm Danare as Peter "Moochie" Welch and David Spielberg as Mr. Casey.
In terms of what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this film in all honesty the acting that's featured / presented to us in this film is really freaking good. While the acting in any early John Carpenter film is always good I feel that it's good in this film because all of the characters are so perfectly cast that it's hard for me to picture anybody else playing these roles and the actors that are in this film play their respective characters to perfection with each actor knowing what performance would best suit their respective character in any given scene.
Now then this film is of course based on the 1983 Stephen King novel of the same name and while I haven't read the novel I am tempted to read it just to see how the film compares to the novel. Plus it would be very interesting for me personally to see which is scarier and if there are things that are carried over from the book and which / what things that are featured / presented to us in the book were either dropped entirely or changed when ti comes to the film adaptation.
Now then before you all start to think that i've gone even further / more insane there is an actual reason as to why i've included the poster to / for Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith. With that reason being that like Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith this film also deals with the fall of someone who starts the film as a nice guy and that is a plot line that I really love because it shows that anyone given the right motivation can be pushed over the edge and do something extreme.
One of the things that I really didn't like about this film is the fact that it's a slow burn type of film so that means that details about the plot are going to be dropped at a snails pace. While having a slow burning plot works for films like Halloween it really didn't work for this film mostly because all of the films characters are dull as a rock and you really do need to have very interesting or even just interesting characters if your going to have a slow burning plot since your audience has to have something to keep them entertained while your slowly dropping / giving out hints / information regarding the plot of your film.
This film has the most perfect opening song that i've heard in a long time because the song that they use to open his film isn't some generic horror movie them like they will most likely use in the up and coming but rather they use the song "Bad To The Bone" by George Thorogood And The Destroyers and well that song is perfect for this film. Simply because it perfectly sums up / describes this version of Christine since in this version Christine is apparently evil for the sake of being evil and so she is bad to the bone.
Now then boys and girls this film has a total running time of one hour and forty nine minuets and fifty nine seconds so let's round all of that up to one hour and fifty minuets shall we and well this film really didn't need to be that long at all. Since there's not really enough there in terms of plot or story to cover that running and so with this very long running time the film kind of feels boring and I say kind of because when the film does get to some death scenes it is pretty / really entertaining but you have to sit through alot of scenes that don't do anything for the plot nor do those exact same scene add anything to the characters and so those scenes could have been cut from the film and as such you very easily could have told the plot / story of this film in well under one hour and thirty minuets or even well under one hour and twenty minuets if you really freaking wanted to that is.
Now then boys and girls this film is a horror film after all and that means that there are some deaths / horror in this film and so that means that I have to actually talk about the actual deaths that are featured / presented to us in the actual film itself and if i'm being really freaking honest here boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen the deaths that are featured / presented to us in this film are the most entertaining part of this film. Simply because the deaths that are in this film are mostly pretty creative and the deaths in this film are always really cool to see because of the fact that the killer is a car.
Overall while this was a pretty decent horror film it was also a fairly dull and as well as being a fairly boring horror and film and fairly boring film in general however if someone was to come up to me and say that they liked this film i'd see where they were coming from since there is alot to like about this film I tho just found this film to be pretty dull and as well as being pretty boring. Now then since i've talked about both of the good and as well both of the bad things that are in this film in this very review and as such this film gets a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
As or where I got all the images that I used in this review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page , the official Stephen King fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film up on Google Images and pus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all fairly high quality and as well as being as fairly high definition and so then horror fans we ends this review as we always do with our ne and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.
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