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Cujo (Sp)
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by Republic Pictures
Sales Rank: 14659
Price: $9.98
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This 1983 adaptation of the Stephen King horror novel is the anti-<I>Beethoven</I>, the story of a rabid St. Bernard that terrorizes a community, tears up a few folks, and goes after a woman and her son. Once the point has been made that big, lovable Cujo has been bitten by a rabid bat, there isn't much more to say. The film is essentially a linear progression of doggy violence, though director Lewis Teague (<I>The Jewel of the Nile</I>)--building on King's implication that we all know what it's like to be afraid of a big, scary pooch--succeeds at making the fear almost primitive for an audience. <I>--Tom Keogh</I>
Viewer Reviews
Most people know the basic plot of Stephen King's CUJO. The title character, a gentle but huge St. Bernard is bitten by a rabid bat, contracts rabies and becomes a frothing maniacal monster that terrorizes some people most famously a mother and her young son stuck in a stalled yellow Pinto at a remote farm house. The mother, Donna, played by Dee Wallace is not particularly sympathetic. She's got a nice good looking husband who is apparently a good provider, a lovely waterfront house, a cute son and apparently nothing to do but run errands and have an affair with a not particularly attractive handyman. Maybe her gripe with her husband is he runs around in a cute red convertible while she's stuck with this lemon of a Pinto? Anyway the first half of the movie sets up Donna and her husband's family life and more briefly we get a look at Cujo's family - a mean car mechanic, his downtrodden wife and their son who seems like a nice enough kid. Oh and we get to see poor Cujo bitten on the nose by the bat while he is chasing a rabbit.
Events conspire so that Donna is caught by her husband with her boyfriend just as she is breaking the affair off. Her husband is called away on business to Boston and goes off in a bit of a huff things being as they are. The wife and cute son are left with the always breaking down Pinto and she with the little boy in tow drive it out to the remote farm where Cujo's owner, the mechanic, lives and the terror begins.
I read King's novel years ago and I thought I remembered quite a different ending from the one the movie depicts. After reading some of the reviews on Amazon I see I remembered correctly. One annoyance I had with the film it is supposed to be set in Maine but it is rather obviously filmed in Northern California. And of course though I realize rabid animals are very dangerous would a dying dog really become a single minded killing machine like Cujo? This is a decent movie that does have some really gripping scenes though I'd call it more of a thriller or suspense film than real horror and there really isn't anything overtly supernatural. And if nothing else it might make you realize why they had to shoot Old Yeller.
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