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| CHRISTINE -------------------------------- 1983 saw John Carpenter back in full force directing one of Stephen King's best movies to hit the screen, next to the shining. The movie stars Keith Gordon as a somewhat nerdy kid who just wants to find some way to fit in. He gets bullied alot and his best friend, a football jock is the only person who isnt trying to humilate him or kick the crud out of him.. The little nerd falls in love with a car, sleek black as she turns out after he buys her from a crotchety old bastard who warns him, the car has a mind of her own. Not giving a rat's fine ass about that, the nerd takes the car, and basically transforms her. In return she seems to transform him as well, within a week he is no longer the quiet mealy mouthed little nerd, but instead a smooth talking, sleeked out son of a no man's child who takes no shit from anybody. Anybody including his jock best friend, and in turn ends up dating jock boy's love interest. It's apparent that the killings which are taking place are those who once abused the little wimpy nerd, no-one is immune to the car, who exacts revenge on those who have hurt her new "man". The fact that maybe he might have known his new car was killing these people escaped the viewer, because the movie locked you in on the plot, the cinematography was somewhat shoddy at best, some parts were grainy, but the movie itself is actually pretty damn good. Though Carpenter directed this movie 4 years after Halloween, it was not his best work. People compared this movie to Halloween which was silly. Carpenter had made such an impact with Halloween that people overlooked his other works and he got a bad rap for this one. But over all it is not a bad movie and can be entertaining in the knowledge that King wrote the book and Carpenter oversaw the project. |
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| CHILD'S PLAY --------------------------------- Not since "Fright Knight" had I seen Tom Holland's name pop up. He directed "Fright Night" and wrote "The Best Within", but other than that I had not paid alot of attention to his name. Well all of that changed when I saw Child's Play. The movie centers around the evil little doll named "Chucky". The movie stars Brad Douriff, Chris Sarandon and Catherine Hicks. Dourifff plays a crook who is killed by Sarandon's character. Before he dies, Douriff casts a black magic spell that transfers his soul into a doll. The doll just so happens to be one of the most popular dolls on the market at the time, and suddenly one of them has come to life. Dourif of course loans his voice to the doll for the movie. Hicks plays an over worked, burned out mother who buys the doll from a homeless person who had stolen it from the toy store that Dourif had blown up during the transfer of his soul. All in all, this movie was actually pretty scary. It used the art of Black Magic and the fact that a child's doll could actually come to life and kill people. When Hicks bought the doll for her little boy (Alex Vincent) she of course had no clue that it was a "haunted" doll. By the end of the movie, Chucky has come totally into his own and rocks the place. This movie was good enough and popular enough that it spawned two sequels and both were nearly as good as the first. If you have yet to see this one, it might just be worth the rental. |
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