Christine
- IMDb link: 0085333
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (97,312 votes)
- Genres: Horror, Thriller
- Director: John Carpenter
- Cast: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky and others
- Release date: 9 Dec 1983
- Release year: 1983
- Runtime: 110 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: killer car, year 1978, year 1957, friendship, darkness
Plot:
In September, 1957, in Detroit, a red 1958 Plymouth Fury is built and is the cause of two accidents, one of them fatal, still on 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.