Cujo (1983) Movie Info
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | Cujo (1983) |
| Director | Lewis Teague |
| Screenplay Writer | Don Carlos Dunaway, Lauren Currier |
| Based on Novel by | Cujo by Stephen King |
| Lead Actors | Dee Wallace |
| Cast | Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone |
| Genre | Horror, Thriller |
| Release Date | August 12, 1983 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 33m (93 minutes) |
| Budget | ~$6 million |
| Language | English |
| Country | United States |
| Box Office (Worldwide) | ~$21 million |
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What always impressed me about Cujo is that it was never over the top with the horror. There is violence in the film, but not a lot of hardcore gore. Ultimately the film chooses to scare audiences and doesn’t simply settle for the gross out factor.
I have to agree with Prime on the cheating wife subplot, even if the extramarital lover is a terrific example of an on-screen scumbag.
Problem is, they were trying to incorporate the entire network of intersecting storytheads from the novel, and the adulterous wife angle bogged the book down as well.
I would have appreciated seeing an approach similar to John Carpenter’s masterful handling of Christine take the focal plot device and base your film on that. Jettison the extraneous story arcs and instead devise a striaght forward horror picture with an eye for faithfully adpating the central conciet.
In the film Christine the other aspects of the haunting/possession plot were toned down in favor of the idea of the car being alive. In Cujo the filmmakers would have been better served engaging in a similar bit of streamlining, narrowing the scope of the film so it stayed attentive to the sudden rabid rampage these townsfolk have to deal with.
The last half of Cujo does actually take this approach, focusing almost entirely on the woman in the car with her son, and consequently it is this segment of the film which gives the whole its overall power.
I found myself really sympathizing with Dee Wallace and Danny Pintauro as they experienced Cujo’s atatcks as wella s suffociating heat. It certainly doesn’t subtract from the impact of the film that Cujo himself has become absolutely terrifying at this point, having transformed into a snarling, foam-spewing canine monster.
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