Josh Keown | Night Terror Novels 🧛🏻♂️’s review published on Letterboxd:
“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 Dee Wallace (star of classics, like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and The Howling, and not-so classics like Critters!) heads up the fairly bog average cast, and turns in a great performance; completely over-the-top and needlessly melodramatic! Like this review! She stars alongside husband of the time, Christopher Stone, who is also okay!
The St. Bernard was probably the best member of the cast, managing to convey a plethora of emotions. One talented pooch indeed. Or maybe five talented pooches, as apparently five St. Bernards, one mechanical head, and a guy in a dog costume were used. There’s some useless trivia for you! Also, this film is a semi-sequel to King’s The Dead Zone, and its hinted Cujo is possessed by serial killer Frank Dodd from that novel! Another piece of useless trivia!
Did you also know that Stephen King has admitted several times that he was so into his alcohol addiction at the time that he does not remember writing this book? That would explain why it’s so batshit insane! No cameo though, can’t for the life of me think why. Why did he choose a St. Bernard for fucks sake? It’s the least intimidating dog in the whole world.
VERDICT; I hope you have enjoyed my pointless, uninformative and largely useless review. Watch this film. This movie is so shit you will not believe how great Cujo is. I need a lie down from how bloody brilliant this film is.
3/5 or 6/10