Christine

Pour un film d'horreur, Christine ne vous effraiera pas complétement. C'est presque impossible de faire un film d'horreur sérieux sur une vieille voiture rouge qui se répare elle-même comme un Transformers. Mais vous allez tout de même profiter d'une belle sensation de peur et de tension grâce à ce concept absurde mais étonnamment efficace. Carpenter a réussi à capturer la magie bizarre du concept, typique des œuvres de King. Ici, l'histoire se concentre sur l'obsession fétichiste d'un adolescent outsider pour une voiture qui devient son idole et l'aide à se retrouver lui-même. Ce sur quoi Christine se base également et ce qui fonctionne bien dans le film - un élément narratif que les créateurs contemporains de films d'horreur abandonnent - ce sont les personnages, leur transformation, leur motivation pour sauver un ami, etc. (18/09/2020)

Despite being overly long, Christine was a surprisingly not boring film. Someone might say I’m contradicting myself, but that’s not quite true. The story does move pretty slowly, there are very few action scenes, they talk quite a lot (about nothing really interesting), but you can feel Carpenter, so if refuse to get bored, you won’t get bored and you will truly enjoy Christine. The main problem for me is that it is not scary, at all. That’s not that big of an issue in horror, as long as it offers some other kind of enjoyment. Unfortunately, this film is made precisely in a style that is meant to be scary, but fails miserably at that. To wrap up, I want to point out to the scene with the burning moving car, that one’s really great. (27/08/2008)

King's Christine is one of his (few) books that I didn't enjoy that much, but what John Carpenter has done with the story is admirable. It's still a B-movie, but it's a proud one. Entertaining and suspenseful, stylish from the opening credits to the very end. It doesn't matter that one might cringe at some of the scenes or the actions of some of the characters, because that's the kind of thing that fits here. Scenes like the first "self-correction" or the one in the flames are unforgettable. (28/04/2019)