Christine

**Christine** **USA | Date | ★★★★** **John Carpenter | Columbia Pictures & Polar Film | #26 of #150Moviesof1983** Christine is an American horror movie from legendary filmmaker John Carpenter. With a screenplay from Stephen King and Bill Phillips. It’s based on a Stephen King novel of the same name. The film was produced by Mark Tarlov, Richard Kobritz, and Kirby McCauley with Columbia Pi...

"It's going to suck, let's watch something else.... It's going to suck, let's watch something else.... King Adaptations always suck, let's watch something else." "You realize it's John Carpenter right?" "Oh, let's rent Christine." That is honestly how the conversation went when I was in High School.... and I am glad I gave it a chance. It's actually one of the better adaptations of a King...

“She’s a killer!” Said one of the promotional posters for John Carpenter’s feature film, based on the homonymous best-selling novel by famous writer Stephen King. Since its 1983 release, the movie has become a cult-classic, especially for gearheads and horror fans, thanks to its premise. But is the movie a killer thriller or just a clunker 1980s film? For this reviewer, it is an absolutely enjo...

One of the most intriguing coming-of-age stories in cinema, and this tends to be overlooked, both as a Stephen King story and horror film, in place of the more sensationalized frolic and mayhem of works such as 'The Shining', 'Carrie', 'Misery' and 'The Shawshank Redemption', which is a crying shame, because: a) John Carpenter is probably the finest director (at least Top 3) ever involved with Kin...

Christine No Strawberry Girl, She’s Plymouth Fury. CQB 241. Christine is directed by John Carpenter and adapted to screenplay by Bill Phillips from the novel of the same name written by Stephen King. It stars Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky and Harry Dean Stanton. Music is by Carpenter and Alan Howarth and cinematography is by Donald M. Morgan. How Do You Kill ...