Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Keith Gordon | ... | Arnie Cunningham | |
John Stockwell | ... | Dennis Guilder | |
Alexandra Paul | ... | Leigh Cabot | |
Robert Prosky | ... | Will Darnell | |
Harry Dean Stanton | ... | Detective Rudolph Junkins | |
Christine Belford | ... | Regina Cunningham | |
Roberts Blossom | ... | George LeBay | |
William Ostrander | ... | Buddy Repperton | |
David Spielberg | ... | Mr. Casey | |
Malcolm Danare | ... | Moochie | |
Steven Tash | ... | Rich | |
Stuart Charno | ... | Don Vandenberg | |
Kelly Preston | ... | Roseanne | |
Marc Poppel | ... | Chuck | |
Robert Darnell | ... | Michael Cunningham |
In 1957, in Detroit, a red Plymouth Fury is built and is the cause of two accidents, one of them fatal, still in the assembly line. Twenty-one years later, the outcast and bullied nerd Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is getting a ride with his best and only friend Dennis Guilder and he sees the wrecked car for sale in a garden. Arnie immediately falls in love with the car. The car was given the name Christine by its first owner. He brings the car to a repair shop of the despicable Will Darnell and works hard to restore the classic car. While he works in the restoration, he changes his personality to a cocky teenager and he dates the most beautiful girl in the high-school, Leigh Cabot. Soon Arnie becomes selfish and jealous of the supernatural Christine that kills everyone that is a threat to them. Written by Mitchell McCreath.
I'm not particularly a fan of horror movies and I couldn't fix an ailing automobile if my life depended on it so the workings of cars don't fascinate me.....but this movie fascinated me. The '58 Plymouth Fury, alias "Christine," is absolutely gorgeous. What a piece of machinery!
This is a horror story but there are no ghosts or monsters nor is there any gore. A car is the star of the film, a very jealous and vengeful one at that. Man, that sounds silly but, if you're reading this you have probably watched the movie so no sense going into details. It's hard to describe the story in a paragraph without it sounding stupid....but it's not. Maybe the quickest way to explain it is that it is about a car that is alive, like a human, and you mess with it, you pay!
It is definitely one creepy, well-made, unique and always-entertaining film.
The car is a lot better than any of the people, sad to say. No, I didn't like any of the kids in this film (high schoolers who all look 30 years old!) and the language is a little too rough in spots, but that can be filtered out.
The car, the '50s music, the unique story, the satisfying revenge angle all make this very watchable.