Christine (1983)

Description

Director John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape From New York) adapts Stephen King's 1983 horror novel, Christine, about a vintage car with a (jealous) mind of her own. Keith Gordon stars as high school nerd Arnie, newly infatuated with a decrepit Plymouth Fury; as he painstakingly restores his beloved car, he finds his devotion returned, and then some, in a manner that swiftly turns form peculiar to downright dangerous. Not that Arnie cares: even as Christine is transformed, so is he, from classic geek to Mr. Cool. Also featuring John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, and a host of terrific character actors: Robert Prosky, Roberts Blossom and Harry Dean Stanton.