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“Fuck you, dog.”
-Donna Trenton (Dee Wallace-Stone)Second King adaptation of the day, with a serving of Cujo! This is probably my favourite ‘it’s so bad, it’s fucking awesome!’ kind of movie. If you thought Thinner was an insane premise, like I did, you really haven’t seen nothing yet. This is a movie about a nigh on indestructible St. Bernard terrorising a town and tearing folk to shreds. Guess what? It’s so, so bad. But it’s FUCKING AWESOME.
Genre icon…
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I love Stephen King and I love movies. Therefore the fact so much of my favourite authors work has been adapted into film should be awesome. However I've quickly learnt that most King adaptions are garbage.
Cujo falls squarely within the bad King adaptions. The titular dog does nothing for the first third of the movie, we just see an incredibly dull family potter around a bit. When Cujo finally does attack it's all kind of boring. It's not the worst King adaptions but's it is definitely in the top five.
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Described by many as a 'pre-quel' to the seven fantastic 'Beethoven' movies this film definitely delivers. Despite not being as friendly and lovable as Beethoven (Well, who could be?) Cujo tries very hard to be loved.
Unfortunately, Cujo becomes infected by a bat and viewers can only watch in terror as Cujo turns rabid and attempts to kill those who he tried so hard to love. The people can only sit in sheer terrier, hoping they'll survive.
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In the VHS era of my youth, CUJO was my first taste of the forbidden fruit of R-rated films. I was ten. Buried under a pile of detritus at my neighbor's house sat a beaten, loved-to-death copy of CUJO belonging to her father, who was always either reading Stephen King novels or hard at work playing the original DOOM on their family computer. I smuggled the tape home despite warnings that it would terrify me and loved every moment of…
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I've never read Stephen King's book, so I'm going to assume that all the material that doesn't involve a rabid St. Bernard attacking a Pinto is handled a lot more compellingly than it is in the film adaptation. I really didn't care much at all about Dee Wallace's affair with a deranged love and really, really didn't care about her husband's travails in the sugar cereal industry. But the last half hour mostly achieves the Jaws effect it's looking for,…
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I really don't get the assertion that this movie's premise is ridiculous. Out of any horror movie I've seen, this one seems the most realistic by far. Lets take Insidious--a demon thing from another dimension? Compare that to a premise of a rabid dog, and tell me which is more realistic. Seriously. While the dog is exaggerated beyond the scope of real life, it's a movie. This isn't claiming to be realist. The way the dog is filmed does actually lead to the build-up of tension in the car scenes.
This film really does need to tone it down on the music though--it's ridiculous.
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