‘Christine’ 1983 Review – AMC Fearfest

• Plot: A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
• Director: John Carpenter
• Writers: Stephen King (novel), Bill Phillips (screenplay)
• Stars: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell and Alexandra Paul | See full cast and crew

Now I had already seen part of Christine while my dad and I were channel surfing a couple years back. Which part of the movie did I see? The ending… So while watching it, I couldn’t stop thinking of how I already knew it was going to do down. I think it somewhat took away from the experience for me, but ehh, you gotta live with it.

Story: Since this is directed by John Carpenter, I knew this was going to be good right from the start. Now first, of all, I know a lot of people don’ like this film too much. It’s about a car that lives, I know. But it’s a Stephen King novel adaption, and Stephen King’s novels are always good. It’s also John Carpenter, so you have to give it a chance before believing what you read in bad reviews. This, happens to not be a bad review though.

So the beginning of the film was a little bland and for those who have no idea what carbon monoxide poisoning is or what it does to you, you probably won’t understand when the people are choking in the film. The car does this to kill people a lot, along with turning its radio on.

Visuals: I was also very impressed with the visual effects. With the car being crushed and completely totaled, then it comes back to life in its beautiful form right before our eyes. Keith Gordon’s transformation from a nerdy kid to an evil guy in the film was pretty cool too since they used a dark and blue light on him, to make his skin look white sort of like a vampire and make him look cold and evil.

Cast & Characters: Like most movies with teenage actors, (this is also made n the early 80s), this film lacks in the acting department most of all. The leads were pretty good overall with some weird moments, but some supporting characters were just… not good actors.

Verdict: An interesting story about a killer car with some cool ways the car kills people is exciting along with the suspense of how to get rid of the car makes this film a keeper.