Christine

Christine Review 

The movie Christine is an adaptation of the well known novel of the same name by Stephen King. 

It tells a story centred around a nerdy high school kid named Arnie and his best mate Dennis. Arnie is struggling at school and getting bullied by a gang of boys whose leader is Buddy. Whilst Dennis and Arnie are driving home, Arnie sees a car in a man's front yard. This car is Christine. Dennis gets a strange sense of evilness from Christine and tries to talk Arnie out of buying her, however Arnie insists and faces conflict when he tells his parents he bought her. Because it can't stay at his home, Arnie stores Christine at Darnell's workplace (Darnell is the owner of the workshop where Arnie stores Christine) and strange things start to happen between Arnie and Christine, causing many problems for Dennis and his family. 

The characters in the film are true to those of the novel. We see Dennis as an average and mature high school kid who would do anything help his friend Arnie and is eager to get the girls. This is seen when Buddy is picking on Arnie in the school's workshop and when Arnie wants to buy Christine. We see Arnie as your average high school nerd who is having trouble at school, has learning difficulties and is a target for bullying. This is shown when Buddy gangs up on him at school. Buddy is that high school guy who is not wanting to give in to something he did wrong, is a leader and likes to pick on the lower level students like Arnie for his enjoyment. He is shown as bully when he gangs up on Arnie at school. Leigh is one of the high school girls that Dennis is eyeing all the time. She is also very flirty but can get very firm when pushed the wrong way. This is seen when she is with Arnie at at the drive-in and she doesn't want to be near Christine. She is also portrayed accurately when she is walking down the corridor at school. All these characters are represented in the novel and the film the same way in my eyes.

Music in this film is well chosen and suits the setting extremely well. It is filled with lots of retro hits like Bad to The Bone, giving it that old style horror look and like I said before, it works well. 

This film is strong to its source. I'm sure Steven King would appreciate the quality and effort put into this film. But like other adaptations, this film doesn't include everything and some parts that aren't in the book are added in, probably due to time constraints. But all in all it is very accurate portrayal of the book. 

I found it enjoyable and because I have read the book I already knew what was going to happen in the end. However some scenes were a little distracting and irritating but most of it seemed to flow well. I would recommend to this to anyone who wants a good retro horror flick without much blood n gore.