How do you kill something that can’t possibly be alive?|May. 11, 1983|United States|110 Min.|R
Genre: Horror
Description: In September 1957, at a Chrysler Corporation assembly plant in Detroit, a newly assembled red-and-white 1958 Plymouth Fury malfunctions. The hood suddenly slams down, crushing the hand of a worker inspecting the front. Later, another worker sits inside the car, carelessly dropping cigar ash on the seat. At the end of the shift, the supervisor finds the radio playing music. When he opens the door to turn it off, the worker’s lifeless body falls out.
Twenty-one years later, in September 1978, a socially awkward teenager named Arnold “Arnie” Cunningham lives in Rockbridge, California. Arnie, who has only one friend, football player Dennis Guilder, stumbles upon a rundown Plymouth Fury for sale. He purchases the car, named “Christine,” from George LeBay, whose late brother Roland had originally owned it. Unable to keep the car at his parents’ house, Arnie begins restoring it at a garage owned by Will Darnell.
As Arnie spends more time with Christine, his personality changes drastically. He stops wearing glasses, adopts a 1950s greaser style, and becomes arrogant and paranoid. Meanwhile, Dennis learns from George that Roland’s daughter choked to death in the car, and Roland’s wife later committed suicide in it. Although George forced Roland to get rid of Christine, the car mysteriously returned to him weeks later.
During a football game, Dennis notices Arnie kissing his new girlfriend, Leigh Cabot, in front of the now fully restored Christine. Distracted, Dennis suffers a career-ending injury. Later, while on a date at a drive-in theater, Christine’s windshield wiper malfunctions. When Arnie steps out to fix it, Leigh begins choking on her food.
Christine seemingly possesses a dark influence over those who come into contact with it, changing lives in terrifying ways.
Cast director: Larry J. Franco
Cast actor: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford, Roberts Blossom, William Ostrander, David Spielberg, Malcolm Danare
Original name: Christine