Christine (1983)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Arnie Cunningham	Keith Gordon	½
Dennis Guilder	John Stockwell
Leigh Cabot	Alexandra Paul	½
Will Darnell	Robert Prosky
Detective Rudy Junkins	Harry Dean Stanton
Regina Cunningham	Christine Belford	-
Michael Cunningham	Robert Darnell	-
George LeBay	Roberts Blossom
Roseanne	Kelly Preston	-

Review

Stephen King combined his fascination for the number one symbol of Americana, the car, with an obvious inspiration from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" in his 1983 novel "Christine". This movie adaptation, released the same year, was written by Bill Phillips and directed by John Carpenter, but there's not too much of Carpenter's stamp on this work. It opens promisingly with a well-acted and informed look at high-school life with its familiar struggles, and there's also a tingling to how that soon-to-be beautiful 1958 Plymouth Fury turns from a prop and into a character. But as the so-called horror sets in and Keith Gordon turns from Smeagol into Gollum, the film struggles to excite other than with its remarkable technical achievements (the special effects regarding the car are impressive). With the two old-timers Roberts Blossom and Harry Dean Stanton in supporting roles, the former giving a fun, eerie performance.