Christine

Pros: the premise of the story, the car
Cons: the adaption, the screenplay, the acting, the actors, and the lack of horror

Stephen King wrote Christine, and John Carpenter was brought in to Direct the big screen version of the novel. It seemed like a great idea, teaming up a master writer of horror with the Director who was a stud at bringing out fear in his ...

Pros: Carpenter's directing; nice if not exactly masterful performances
Cons: Tone too serious; some of the screenwriter's changes

In the early and mid-Eighties, many Hollywood studios snapped up the rights to Stephen King’s often supernaturally tinged novels that mixed ordinary American life (particularly in small towns) and such things as vampires, werewolves, telekinetic ...

Pros: Good atmosphere, good acting, all the usual John Carpenter touches.
Cons: No trailer on the special edition? What's up with that!

There seems to be two rules in Hollywood - 1) Stephen King movies generally suck. Some of them are mediocre (The Shining), some are entertainingly bad (Maximum Overdrive) but the bulk of movies adapted from his works - Cujo, Pet ...

Pros: Solid direction from Carpenter and a decent cast work together to make this one of the few King adaptations worth seeing
Cons: a few bad performances

Christine: Columbia Pictures
Rating: USA: R/ UK: 18/ Australia: M

After recently viewing David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, The Dead Zone, I started to think about the film translations of...

Pros: Some Surprisingly Good Effects
Cons: Not Nearly Enough Horror, Some Bad Performances

For the most part, film adaptations of Stephen King stories have not lived up to their potential. Most of the time there's no in between as far as quality is concerned - they're either bad or good. That's not to say that it never happens, but ...

Pros: A black comic geek empowerment story with a couple of taut moments.
Cons: Carpenter can't truly elevate the often silly, underdeveloped and uneven story.

1983 saw three Stephen King< b> adaptations make it to movie theaters, arguably the best of which I already reviewed: David Cronenberg's essentially existential The Dead Zone< i>. That leaves two other films, the Lewis Teague-helmed Cujo< i> ...

Pros: The bad guys get theirs.
Cons: It's still a haunted CAR!

When doing a movie with a premise such as a haunted car, you can go one of two ways with it. You can either try to play it seriously, and hope it doesn't come off silly, or you can play it for camp and hope the audience gets the joke. Christine goes...

Pros: One of the great films based on Stephen King's best-selling novel!
Cons: None to date.

WHY CHRISTINE? Christine is one of those horror movies of the early '80's. Master of Suspense author, Stephen King wrote the novel about about a 1958 Plymouth Fury that's cursed with evil! Horror film director John Carpenter brought the horror story ...

Pros: Cool car, good special effects, succeeds where it needs to.
Cons: A few acting issues.

People occasionally rip on me for mentioning how many times I've seen a movie in my reviews. They don't feel it's relevant. I feel it's actually very relevant. You can see a movie one day, and totally hate it, but watch it again and you may love it. ...

Pros: Good acting, storyline, characters, suspense, directing
Cons: Pacing, Amount of Profanity

Christine is a 1983 horror film that was adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name. Like the majority of Stephen King novel adaptions, Christine doesn't stay very close to the original story, nor should it have to. Christine is a movie ...

Pros: Suspenseful direction from John Carpenter; good atmosphere; limited gore
Cons: The profanity may be a bit much, though this is a minor quibble

Stephen King's books have provided the basis for many of the best horror movies over the last thirty years--and unfortunately some of the worst. Among the best are CARRIE and THE SHINING. Add CHRISTINE to that list. This 1983 thriller, based on King's...

Pros: classic horror flick
Cons: Not one in my epinion! :)

This movie is based on the novel of Steven King. It has a great and suspenseful plot, good acting and great special affects. The movie will pull you in fairly quick and keep you on the edge of your seat all the way through. The actors did such a good...

Pros: Good special effects, exciting moments
Cons: Lacks much of characterization and plot of book

"Christine" is a decent movie adaptation of the novel (by the same title) by Stephen King, in fact, it's one of the few adaptations worth watching. I liked the movie, but it had much less of the story and characterization than the book....

Pros: Great scary, intense flick
Cons: limited special features

When I was younger, I never got to see Christine and in all those years I'd hear friends talking about this movie where a car kills everyone who tries to come between it (the car) and the car's owner. My young imagination ran wild and I could only ...