63/100

Amazingly well acted for a killer-car movie, not just by Keith Gordon (who overdoes Arnie's nerdiness at the outset but is magnificently repellent once he "blossoms") but also by future Turistas director John Stockwell as the clean-cut jock hero. Superbly photographed, too, though that doesn't qualify as amazing since Carpenter in his prime was the King of Panavision. (I'm not in love with his score here, though, which keeps intruding on the eerieness of Christine's time-warp radio.) Everybody works together to elevate King's fairly pedestrian* story into something sporadically unsettling, even if nobody figured out how to make the climactic showdown work. Howled at the end—"God, I hate rock and roll" ranks among the greatest closing lines of all time.

* cutesiness genuinely unintended; I'm retaining it, though.

Has that same "intelligent horror with plenty of subtext" vibe that all the best movies based on Stephen King works have, only since this is a John Carpenter movie the whole thing is so entertaining that you almost don't notice.

You almost don't notice what's going on UNDER THE HOOD.

Like the hood of a car. Like the movie. About the car.

Una película considerablemente buena teniendo en cuenta que parte de una de las premisas más absurdas de la producción literaria de Stephen King. Nunca la unión de angst juvenil y fetichismo ha dado tan bien en pantalla.

A reasonably good movie considering that comes from one of the most absurd premises in the literary production of Stephen King. Never the union of youth angst and fetishism has done so well on screen.

Days of JC:

KIller car man!

get it?GET IT??!!

whatever they did to do the scenes where the car fixed its self was impressive. great story fun flick

Although not especially scary, I really enjoy Christine for the performances from the lead actors and its portrayal of a friendship slowly falling apart. One of the better Stephen King adaptations, with clever use of music and a plausible sense of menace despite the silly premise.

Another great John Carpenter movie that failed in the box office when first released, and today is looked at with oohs and aahs. Maybe not to the extant of The Thing (I still can't believe that was a flop in theaters. It just doesn't seem possible). Amazing practical effects that today would all be done in CGI, a great soundtrack that even adds character to the main "monster", and as always great direction and score by Carpenter. Also, if you are a car enthusiast, plenty of cringeworthy moments of destruction of the 2 dozen Plymouth Fury's used in the production.

I always avoided the novel when I was a kid, convinced a killer car wasn't "scary" enough, and I guess my willful ignorance persisted over the film adaptation as well. Stupid me! Because Carpenter gets Stephen King like few directors have, giving us great characters and story before getting to the horror. Definitely top 10 Carpenter.

One of those classic Stephen King films from the 80's that had passed me by, this had aged far less than I was expecting it to. Sure it has all the hallmarks of 80's horror but unlike others it seems to have fared better with age.

This is far from the best thing Stephen King ever created and far from the best movie adaptation of anything King has ever created but its also far from the worst.

If you enjoyed Sleepwalkers or Sometimes they Come Back, you'll absolutely love this.

Let down by a typically underwhelming King ending, but the buildup to it is vintage Carpenter. And even B-level Carpenter in this, his heyday, is better than most.

It seems like the early part of Carpenter's career was mostly him doing adaptations of non-existant Stephen King novels, so it's no surprise that he eventually ended up doing a full-on adaptation of an existing one. Great practical car effects, beautiful camera work, as per early Carpenter (I would really like to do a study of his placement of the camera overhead in scenes of dread and suspense), and surprisingly good performances from the teen actors. Also what has to be one of the best closing lines in any film ever.

Una película considerablemente buena teniendo en cuenta que parte de una de las premisas más absurdas de la producción literaria de Stephen King. Nunca la unión de angst juvenil y fetichismo ha dado tan bien en pantalla.

A reasonably good movie considering that comes from one of the most absurd premises in the literary production of Stephen King. Never the union of youth angst and fetishism has done so well on screen.

If you ever have to shoot a car for a movie or a commercial or something watch this first

At least 10 years since I last saw this. Kind of hard to make a killer car scary but Carpenter does his best, and my fuck is the soundtrack good.

Christine, the killer car. This car kills people, and turns the ugly-as-fuck future director of Mother Night into a killing machine.

The real message? Drive hummers and SUVs so christine won't FUCK you up.

The other message? Car's are more sexually alluring than hot females.