{"id":7027,"date":"2013-09-13T01:40:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T05:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2013-09-13T01:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T05:40:56","slug":"br-christine-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7027","title":{"rendered":"BR: Christine (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Film: Excellent\/ BR Transfer: Excellent\/ BR Extras: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label: Twilight Time\/ Region: All \/\u00a0Released: March 12, 2013<\/p>\n

Genre: Supernatural Horror \/ Stephen King<\/p>\n

Synopsis: After restoring a vintage Plymouth Fury, a teen becomes the love object of the murderous, possessive automobile.<\/p>\n

Special Features: 2003 Audio commentary with director John carpenter and actor keith Gordon \/ Isolated stereo music track \/ 3 2003 Featurettes: “Fast and Furious” (28:52) + “Finish Line” (7:16) + “Ignition” (11:53) \/ Deleted and Alternate Scenes (26:01) \/ 2013 8-page colour booklet with liner notes by film historial Julie Kirgo \/ Limited to 3000 copies \/ Available exclusively from Screen Archives Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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John Carpenter\u2019s film version of Christine<\/strong> joins a qualitatively diverse cadre of killer vehicle movies, and alongside Duel<\/strong> (1971), The Car<\/strong>(1977), Killdozer<\/strong> (1974), and to a slight extent Wheels of Terror <\/strong>(1990), this sub-sub genre is pretty much about machines that were either born bad or happened to be possessed by some demonic entity, and need to hurt humans using the full impact of their deadly mass.<\/p>\n

Perhaps due to its literary origins and Stephen King\u2019s imagination, Christine<\/strong> is also a subversive drama about extreme teen angst and sense of utter displacement from society, and maybe the first film where a man develops a direct hot & bothered relationship with a Detroit product. Within Christine<\/strong> there is indeed inappropriate touching, and had nerd Arnie (Keith David) been more decisive in his mate selection, he would\u2019ve found a way to mate with his restored 1958 Plymouth Fury.<\/p>\n

The car is clearly the star of the film, but screenwriter Bill Phillips neatly sets up plenty of character development as Christine gradually de-nerdifies Arnie, but her jealousy creates a rift with best friend \/ football jock Dennis (John Stockwell), and destroys his burgeoning relationship with new transfer student Leigh (Alexandra Paul). More importantly, we\u2019re shown in excruciating detail Christine\u2019s destruction and defilement by Arnie\u2019s bullies, so after the car rebuilds herself, her rage isn\u2019t just bigger; it\u2019s justified<\/em>. That key transition puts us squarely on the side of the machine, and there\u2019s total satisfaction as Carpenter stages clean, effective montages where Christine bisects, immolates, and flattens her sodomizers.<\/p>\n

Christine<\/strong> isn\u2019t a perfect film \u2013 the dialogue is sometimes tinny, hottie Leigh has zero depth, and David Keith\u2019s performance (and visage) rarely remains subdued – but it all works in this slightly overlong killer car film. It\u2019s also part of Carpenter\u2019s golden widescreen period where the colours, the 2.35:1 composition, and those hypnotic lens flares defined his inimitable style.<\/p>\n

Twilight Time\u2019s Blu-ray features a gorgeous transfer and dynamic DTS audio, and happily replicates all extras from Sony\u2019s 2003 special edition, including the featurettes, deleted scenes, commentary with Carpenter and Keith, plus an isolated score track. Only qualm: why has no one still archived on any Christine<\/strong> video release the brilliant teaser trailer<\/a>?<\/p>\n

To avoid the ire of Christine\u2019s soul, though, this sold-out limited release needs to be earmarked for a second pressing.<\/p>\n

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External References<\/em>:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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Return to: Home \/\u00a0Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews \/ C . Film: Excellent\/ BR Transfer: Excellent\/ BR Extras: Excellent Label: Twilight Time\/ Region: All \/\u00a0Released: March 12, 2013 Genre: Supernatural Horror \/ Stephen King Synopsis: After restoring a vintage Plymouth Fury, a teen becomes the love object of the murderous, possessive automobile. Special Features: 2003 Audio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2221,1859,2222],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1Pl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7037,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions\/7037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}