Synopsis
Now there's a new name for terror...
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
1983 Directed by Lewis Teague
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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I got infected with a crazy virus because of a fucking bat.
Cujo 🤝 Humankind
Thank you Steven King for making mist, dogs, cats, children, hotels, fame, handcuffs, prom and clowns scary. Really thank/fuck you.
*me tearing up during a horror film (T▽T)*
My Dad : What's wrong?
Me : hhhhhhhhhh. Dog.
The wife should be really thankful for not owning a convertable like her husband.
While I haven't seen all of Stephen King's films, out of the films I've seen thus far Cujo is my favorite!
The first 32 minutes are devoted to character development! For the most part it's a lil sneaky peaky at the skeletons in everyone's closets!
The next 50 minutes of the film is devoted entirely to scaring the living daylights out of you and I! And it succeeds!
Dee Wallace's agonizingly realistic performance made it easy to buy into the whole premise with her truly riveting portrayal of a mom and her young son struggling to survive a ghastly ordeal that only the sick twisted mind of Stephen King could conjure up!
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Between this movie and Beethoven, I think the message is more than clear. San Bernardos are the devil's spawn.
But in all seriousness, this was a decent movie. Our two main characters, Dee Wallace and Danny Pianturo, are really good, particularly in the scene where the killer dog is making an attempt on their lives. Wallace, who has had experience working in films where she has to fight or adjust to life with otherworldly and savage creatures, uses this experience to make you believe her life is truly in danger.
This performance by Wallace is more than welcome thanks to the fact that the film itself is woefully lacking in tension. In fact,…
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”Nope, nothing wrong here”
“Well... that’s not entirely true”
Ever been stuck in a car for hours and wondered if it could get any worse? Why yes it can!
It’s hard to believe you could take the mom from ET, the dog from Beethoven, a kid with a Monster’s Inc complex, and a cheap American made car, put ‘em together and create such a stressful 40 minute run.
Even though the first half tends to drag as it spends most of its time setting up the set-piece, once we get to the Pinto of Terror things finally take off.
BONUS POINTS for Dee Wallace’s performance and her willingness to go to bat for her son.
”Cujo won’t hurt him... He likes kids.”
A horror film that unfolds against the meltdown of a young family, Lewis Teague's "Cujo" spends more of its time setting up its domestic drama than presenting its horror elements. When those elements hit, however, they are intense, harrowing, and relentless.
"Cujo" is probably best known as the Stephen King adaptation about the rabid St. Bernard that terrorizes a mother and son trapped in their vehicle. This description is adequate but does not do the film's narrative justice. "Cujo" begins by alternating between the story of a pet dog, bitten by a bat and breaking down thanks to a rabies infection, and a family breaking down thanks to job stresses and infidelity. The film does a solid job of setting…
Finally seen "Cujo" in its full length and not just the last 20 minutes in the nightly TV program many years ago.
"He doesn't do anything, he just wants to play." A sentence with a manageable veracity that pretty much everyone is aware of. Stephen King even wrote a novel about this statement, which was filmed in 1983.
There are movies that make me feeling uncomfortable. Uncomfortable going into the open water, uncomfortable being in crowds, uncomfortable to turn off the light. "Cujo" gives me the discomfort of sitting in the car for hours in the blazing sun. It is doubtful whether this was intentional..