Christine

Christine

Release Date

1983

Director

  • John Carpenter

Cast

  • Keith Gordon
  • John Stockwell
  • Alexandra Paul
  • Harry Dean Stanton

A 17-year-old nerd is consumed by passion for Christine: a red-and-white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose unique standard equipment includes a vengeful evil presence that will destroy anyone who tries to come between them.

Nerd Arnie Cunningham is unpopular and victimized...until he  buys a junked 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine. As he obsessively rebuilds her, Arnie and Christine are both transformed into 1950s greaser dreams, to the alarm of Arnie's jock friend, Dennis. After a gang of bullies deface Christine, the auto restores herself to perfect condition and begins killing them off one by one. Determined to stop the deaths, Dennis and Arnie's new girlfriend, Leigh, decide that they must destroy Christine to save their friend. Based on the book by Stephen King and featuring a soundtrack of early rock 'n' roll hits, Christine has become a cult horror classic.


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