Cujo (1983)

Powerful

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

As Good As It Gets

The acting in this movie is really good.

Best brutal film bloody love it Gary eating up best part of film

St Bernard's are so friendly but not Cujo when he is bitten by a bat that turns him rabid and goes on a killing spree.Poor Donna (Dee Wallace) who along with her son is getting her husband's car fixed by Joe, Cujo's owner. As she pulls into his farmhouse , Donna finds herself trapped inside the car as Cujo is ready to pounce. His face covered in blood and his mind gone insane.This Stephen King adaptation is really a thin story. Director Lewis Teague tries to crank up some tension but it is only effective in the latter part of the film as Donna is trapped in the car with her son getting poorly.Some nice, effective cinematography by Jan De Bont.

After viewing this movie, I came to the IMDb page and was completely shocked to see this rated so low! Unlike a lot of horror movies from this generation, Cujo still stands up!Cujo is a slow burner, but once it gets going, it doesn't stop. Teague directs this movie beautifully: it's gritty, in your face, and absolutely relentless. The scenes, backed by a perfectly-fitted score, are extremely intense. Wallace & Pintauro give fantastic performances. Despite the static setting, you never feel bored when viewing their scenes in the second half of this film.While some of the metaphoric meaning of the book may have been lost when Cujo was transferred to the big screen, this movie is still an underrated horror flick that is definitely worth a watch.

Based on the novel by Stephen King, "Cujo" is about a rabid Saint Bernard who terrorizes a mother (played by Dee Wallace) and her young son (played by Danny Pintauro). Trapped in a small, Ford Pinto that doesn't start, Wallace and Pintauro spend several agonizing days in the heat inside their car, unable to escape with Cujo just waiting for them nearby. No cell phones, no neighbors…if Wallace doesn't make a desperate attempt to flee or kill Cujo, she and her son will surely die in the car from heat exhaustion and dehydration. My most memorable, movie moment of "Cujo" is the scene when Wallace has her car door open and trying to take care of Pintauro, and Cujo appears behind her and goes in for the kill. Although "Cujo" feels at times like a made for TV movie (most of the director's work is in TV), it is still a good horror/suspense movie that continues to be relevant today with all the reported dog attacks against humans.Mannysmemorablemoviemoments