Waste of time

An unexpected masterpiece

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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.

I didn't read the original story by King, so I can not judge on how faithful adaptation is, but movie alone is barely watchable. It is not complete crap, but it is not much above it either. Technically this movie is mediocre. Level of entertainment... well, I had to force myself to stick to it till the end. But I must admit that has some really scary parts. Most of it is boring and redundant, but few scenes really made me shiver. If they could make whole thing at least half that intense it could have been really good horror/drama. But this way it does not deserve more than 4, being average of 7 for scary parts and 2 for every other aspect of the movie.4/10!!! SPOILER ALERT !!! - specific objections to the story:First half an hour show us family relations in house of the victims and wife's love affair that has no influence to main course of the story. It is like they put it in film only to pull on enough material for 90 minutes movie. That part is painfully boring. - Wife and kid are stuck in a car for 48 hours and nobody noticed they're missing. Is it possible/probable that they have no family, friends, neighbors or anyone else they have everyday communication with and who would notice they're missing... - They are in courtyard of local mechanic, just 7 miles from their home. Is it possible/probable that no one knows where they're gone, no one stopped by to fix their car or came across for any other reason for whole two days and nights... - Cop that finally starts searching for them soon comes across their car all battered and covered in blood. logical sequence of procedures would be to park police car close to victims, use police radio to call backup and tell what he saw, then pull out his gun and carefully get out of the car and go to take a look into victims car. In that case victim would tell him what is happening and he would have two options. Either to carefully look for the beast and kill it or to get victims into police car and get a hell out of there while calling the competent service to solve the issue. Instead he parks far away from bloody car, does not call for backup or at least to say where he is and what he found, gets out of the car unarmed and nonchalantly strolls across the yard. Of course, beast lurks and grabs him by surprise. and when he finally decides to use his gun he is too freaked and clumsy so he drops his gun on the ground and he gets killed. Cops may be believed to be stupid, but this kind of carelessness is in contrary with basic instincts of self- preservation. - At the end, when mother finally succeeds to defend her child by sticking broken baseball bat into beast, she takes gun from the ground and gets into house without even checking if the beast is really dead. Those bolder would probably approach the beast to check if it's still alive, but everyone would at least empty whole magazine into it just in case. She did neither and of course, she gets attacked from behind once again. Completely retarded.There is more smaller illogicalities and nonsense, but what I listed above should be enough to justify my 4/10. For a moments scary, but mostly dull and poorly told life drama. Without those few emotionally strong moments this movie would barely deserve 2/10.

My mission to watch 30 horror movies from the 80's continues with Cujo (1983). Half of it is filler material that gave duration to film that could have been 45 minutes long. I am only 5 movies into my marathon and already 3 of them had the name Stephen King in them. He has never been a loyal friend to me. I never read his books, but I have heard movie adaptations of those are never faithful to the source material. Maybe that is partly why he ceases to disappoint me. In the name of fairness, movies need to be reviewed as a stand-alone titles and not a book readers' wish fulfillment, anyway. But are his works really fated to have mediocre-at-best adaptations? Can't his horror and characterization be delivered without in-depth narrative that books could offer? It doesn't really seem like Lewis Teague -the director of this movie- is trying his hardest to deliver and turn the book into a film in Cujo's case. Then again, The Shining is highly praised whilst Kubrick did not do any better job than Lewis Teague. Maybe it isn't always Stephen Kings's fault. This movies centers around mediocre lifestyle, relationship drama and car problems. Filled with characters who seem to have a rain cloud over their head. Very melancholic feel to it. I honestly do not know what this mess tries to be. There is not even a hint of horror in it whatsoever. The other claimed genre is thriller. My lowest standard to define thriller is the existence of some sort of tension. Story- wise. Only tension I see here is sexual in some love drama. This content is very weird and nonexistent for a 1.5 hour long horror movie about a dog. All in all I would not recommend this film because it quite literally sucks. Children of the Corn is a better choice because it at least has some entertainment value as a comedy. 2/10.