Cujo
Directed by:
Lewis TeagueCinematography:
Jan de BontComposer:
Charles BernsteinCast:
Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter, Kaiulani Lee, Billy Jayne, Mills Watson, Sandy Ward, Robert Behling, Jerry Hardin (more)VOD (2)
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Another Stephen King chiller. The Trenton family have recently moved to Castle Rock, Maine, to escape the pressures of city life. When Donna Trenton (Dee Wallace Stone) and her son Ted (Danny Pintauro) break down in the middle of nowhere, they are attacked by the normally docile neighbourhood dog, Cujo. The huge St. Bernard has been transformed into a rabid animal after being bitten by a bat. (Universal Pictures UK)
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The creators managed to bury a fairly successful adaptation of King’s novel, Cujo, by giving it a completely different ending. Like almost always, I suppose. In reality it would hardly turn out so well. But the scenes with the irate St. Bernard are really well filmed and the dog is really terrifying when he attacks the car. Although it is missing the detailed description of Cujo’s mental health and how he gradually loses self-control that is in the book (there is even a faint hint that Cujo is the reincarnation of mass murderer Frank Dodd from one of King’s previous novels, “Dead Zone"), but I admit that this would probably be impossible to film.
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