Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 11
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Release Date: Aug 12, 1983 Wide
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Based on a Stephen King novel, Cujo is not as menacing or as frightening as other film adaptations of King's popular stories and especially cannot compare to the 1976 Carrie. Cujo is a happy St. Bernard until he is bitten on the nose by a rabid bat and slowly begins manifesting the symptoms of his fatal illness. His condition deteriorates as he attacks people again and again, until finally, mom Donna Trenton (Dee Wallace) and her son Tad (Danny Pintauro) are trapped inside the family car with
Aug 12, 1983 Wide
Aug 21, 2001
All Critics (30) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (11) | DVD (9)
As thrilling and scary as Cujo can be, it's dreadful for long stretches.
Underrated, but nowhere near as much as the book. I'd personally rather rescue Christine and 'Salem's Lot from the King adaptations of ill repute.
Directed by Lewis Teague with less cinematographic flair than even the TV miniseries for 'Salem's Lot, Cujo unfortunately demonstrates the difficulty in adapting King's shorter works.
In all fairness, Cujo is yards better than many of the movies crafted out of King's immense catalog. Too bad it's not the terrifying tour de force everybody alleges.
...there's no denying that the sequences dealing with Cujo's assault on Wallace's cheap Pinto are extremely effective...
Unrelenting terror throughout bulk of film
Takes a bite out of the common horror flick...Very entertaining
Not particularly suspenseful
Vic Trenton: There are no real monsters. Tad Trenton: Except for the one in my closet. "Unleash the terror."Cujo isn't a terrible movie by any means and it isn't a bad adaption of the Stephen King book either. It's just that Cujo isn't anywhere near King's best work. It's one of his least terrifying, horror stories.
October 15, 2011
Super Reviewer
Based on the novel by Stephen King, CUJO is a poorly-adapted, pet-centric horror movie. It's frustrating watching a movie where some scenes look like exact copies as they appeared in the book, other scenes are barely faithful and move through way too quickly, and some memorable scenes from the book were scrapped from
September 8, 2011Super Reviewer
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