Review of Christine (1983) by Originaldanger — 06 Sep 2020

Christine is a 1983 horror directed by John Carpenter... John Carpenter is a great film maker and he brought us The Thing which was really good as a gory horror movie with added creepy music, The Thing was about some lifeform possibly from outer space immitating humans and taking over their bodies or something and Kurt Russell was great.

.. Christine is basically a story about a red car which kills people and Keith Gordon who plays Arnie Cunningham buys it from some old man who doesn't tell him other people have died inside the car. The car is trashed by hoodlums that Arnie knows and the car goes on a revenge spree killing the people who trashed it, the car even drives full of flames and runs down somebody.

A gas station explodes which is a good part and a few people die from the car including Arnie eventually at the end and the car is trashed properly and ends up at a tip or junkyard completely demolished and crushed.

This is one of the worst films I've ever seen especially for a horror movie as it was neither entertaining or scary or a good story. The fact it won positive awards is a joke and the acting is awful and the ending was disappointing.

I think the only good and half decent acting in Christine was by Harry Dean Stanton and Alexandra Paul was pretty cute but besides that the rest of the cast were bloody awful. Christine is a poor horror movie that lacks in almost every department and is missing that spark and the car wasn't scary or impressive and the film was ridiculous in every way possible.

Avoid this film and John Carpenter should be ashamed.