Christine (Blu-ray, SteelBook)
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Christine (Special Edition)
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Christine (Blu-ray)
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Christine (4K UltraHD + Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 13, 2016
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Sony Pictures Home
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Keith Gordon | |
Performer: | Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Prosky, Alexandra Paul, John Stockwell & Kelly Preston | |
Directed by | John Carpenter | |
Story by | Stephen King |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Relatively artless when compared to several other King adaptations around the time (Carrie, The Shining, The Dead Zone) or even with Carpenter's previous picture (1982's career-best The Thing), the film still delivers the goods as entertainment.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 3/4 --
I love Carpenter, and I like Christine well enough, but I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I am about other King films.
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Combustible Celluloid
...[The] flashy auto dominates everything, its jealousy is effectively, and sometimes humorously conveyed....Technically, the film is outstanding...
Variety
Carpenter's thematic self-consciousness can't entirely overcome a shaky dramatic structure that sacrifices character logic to increasingly meaningless thrills.
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Chicago Reader
This deja vu premise [from the novel by Stephen King] combined with the crazed vehicle format, makes Christine appear pretty shop-worn.
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Variety
Rating: B --
Proves Carpenter's mastery of both mood and the widescreen frame.
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Lessons of Darkness
Rating: 3/4 --
This is the kind of movie where you walk out with a silly grin, get in your car, and lay rubber halfway down the Eisenhower.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, CHRISTINE is a dark and violent film about the dangers of obsession. When a unpopular young man, Arnie (Keith Gordon), buys a vintage car to restore, it changes his life completely. The more he works on the car, which he names Christine, the more his personality changes. He becomes moody and dark, spending more and more time with the car and less and less with his friends. The friends become concerned as Arnie's passion for the automobile turns to extreme, and he becomes unstable. But the car has powers over the young man, and takes on a life of its own, becoming as obsessed with its new owner as he is of it. Their devotion to one another quickly becomes violent, and separating Arnie from the car is a deadly task for his friends. With CHRISTINE, director John Carpenter delivers a faithful adaptation of the book by Stephen King. One master of horror adapting another's work seems ideal, and the results are as powerful as expected. With Carpenter's ability to make the supernatural seem plausible, even commonplace, the film excels in evoking plenty of scares and nail biting from the audience.