Christine

Genre: Horror

Worldwide gross$21.2M

In 1957, in Detroit, a red Plymouth Fury is built and is the cause of two accidents, one of them fatal, still in the assembly line. Twenty-one years later, the outcast and bullied nerd Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is getting a ride with his best and only friend Dennis Guilder and he sees the wrecked car for sale in a garden. Arnie immediately falls in love with the car. The car was given the name Christine by its first owner. He brings the car to a repair shop of the despicable Will Darnell and works hard to restore the classic car. While he works in the restoration, he changes his personality to a cocky teenager and he dates the most beautiful girl in the high-school, Leigh Cabot. Soon Arnie becomes selfish and jealous of the supernatural Christine that kills everyone that is a threat to them.

🏆 1 win & 3 nominations total

Genres

Horror, Thriller

Director

John Carpenter

Cast

Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul

Released

9 December 1983

Runtime

1h 50m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.8 / 10

Votes

101,057

Metascore

57

Rotten Tomatoes

69%

Box office

$21,017,849

Budget

$9,700,000

Edition

Base