Cujo

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Summary: Cujo Vs. Ren
Review: I remember when i saw this movie. The great parts were when Cujo went crazy. I even liked the part where he tride to break into to kill a mother & her son & the part when he hered a phone ring. He also killed a man who brought in his groceries & I think his own human. In the end of the movie the mother shot Cujo. Me & My brother talk about cujo alot & think he can beat any other dog.

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Summary: Cujo Vs. Ren
Review: I remember when i saw this movie. The great parts were when Cujo went crazy. I even liked the part where he tride to break into to kill a mother & her son & the part when he hered a phone ring. He also killed a man who brought in his groceries & I think his own human. In the end of the movie the mother shot Cujo. Me & My brother talk about cujo alot & think he can beat any other dog.

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Summary: sucks!
Review: I'll cut to the chase....Plot ..., movie ..., not scary, will put horror fans to sleep...BAD MOVIE!

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Summary: A Claustraphobe's Nightmare!
Review: If I had read the book first I would have probably known what I was in for when I sat down to watch this movie. I have a deeply rooted fear of confined spaces and possibly an even bigger fear of being eaten. So basically, this movie scared me to no end! Now I have to admit much of the story (and acting) moved along fairly slowly, until the mother and son were stuck in the middle of nowhere, in a station wagon, with a large, rabid Saint Bernard attempting to get inside! It was this portion of the movie that got my skin crawling! When Cujo starts attacking the car and you just get this feeling that nobody is getting out of there alive, that's good Horror entertainment! Strangely enough I never felt that Cujo should die or that he was a "monster". I just kept thinking that all of us are victims of circumstance, and not one of us has control over the events in our lives. That concept alone is terrifying! The acting of the mother and son were perfect and I'd really like to know how they got the dog who played Cujo to act so mean! To me, a claustraphobe, this was one nightmare of a movie. If I had been younger I would have probably developed a serious fear of dogs to boot. But dogs are great, as long as you make sure they've had their shots! You don't want your dog going Cujo on you, now do you! One of the scariest movies I've ever seen!

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Summary: A good adaptation, but it's almost impossible to watch
Review: In 1983, director Lewis Teague unleashed a force more horrifying than anything that ever came from the mind of Stephen King. Its name was: Danny Pintauro. This sissified young actor would go on to almost completely nullify the obvious appeal of Alyssa Milano through all those years of Who's the Boss? before finally disappearing from the scene (hopefully for good). It need never have happened. Had Cujo never "introduced" Pintauro to the acting scene, I might never have been forced to come to terms with the fact that Will Wheaton was only the second most annoying child actor in the world.

In terms of this film, let me say that, while there have been a number of less successful and ill-conceived adaptations of Stephen King's work, Cujo is my least favorite of all the Stephen King films. Let's start with the fact that the novel is not conducive to a film adaptation in the first place - the idea of Cujo is a good one, but the characters and atmosphere of the story are as unappealing as meatloaf left out in the hot sun for about three months. Vic Trenton (Daniel Hugh Kelly) is the only half-way sympathetic character to be found here, but he, unfortunately, looks like a reject from The Brady Bunch. Then you have his wife Donna (Dee Wallace); not only is she unattractive, she is having an affair with one of her husband's friends. And young Tad (Danny Pintauro) - I know he's a little kid, and we were all scared of the dark at that age, and all of us would have squawked incessantly if we were trapped in a car by a giant rabid hellhound, but he is just so incredibly annoying. Less important characters, such as Donna's illicit boy toy and the dysfunctional Camber family, suck what little air is left over out of the room. The town itself looks like it should have been abandoned ten years ago. And the lighting - a sunny day has never been as depressing as what you see here. I don't like the music, either, but I guess I've complained enough already.

And what of Cujo himself? Normally, as an animal lover, I would fall in love with any animal in a film. Not Cujo. Sure, he didn't go out and get rabies on purpose, but he had no business chasing that cute little bunny rabbit in to the bat-occupied hole in the ground in the first place. On top of that, he proved unable to finish the job when he had the film's two least likable characters trapped. I've got to give the canine actor his props, though, as he gave everything he had to this film. He had to endure all kinds of miseries to take on the look of a rabid gigantic killer, and he held nothing back when told to attack people, cars, doors, windows - whatever. He also, I am quite sure, did all of his own stunts. Sadly, in yet another slap in the mug to canine actors everywhere, he was left entirely out of the credits. He was the only actor in this production who deserved to have his name in lights, yet he didn't even rate the same dignity as the film's best boy and assistant cooks.

Finally, I must say I was disheartened to find that the director lacked the courage to end the film the way Stephen King ended the novel. A lot of people complained about King's ending, but it was the right one and should have carried over to the film adaptation. Obviously, I pretty much hated watching Cujo, but I must admit that, by and large, it was a pretty good adaptation of King's novel (except for the ending, of course). Effective it may be, but enjoyable it is not.

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Summary: STEPHEN KING'S #1 CUJO
Review: It is a masterpiece. The book is even more outstanding

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Summary: Cujo's bark is fierce at first, but loses its bite at end
Review: Let me begin by simply saying this: If you've read the book and you enjoyed it, you may not like this adaptation. It moves too quickly. The affair between Donna and Vic is not explained well enough. The dog scenes were pretty good and gory, but otherwise it's a pretty average film. The book is far better. As for the ending of the film, I don't like it. However, there have been worse adaptations of Stepnen King novels (remember "The Running Man?")

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Summary: I don't like dogs because of this movie...
Review: Man oh man I should've never watched this when I was 12. Because of this, I'm afraid of dogs to this day. No jokeing. Buy this and change your love for dogs. Cats rule and dogs drool!!

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Summary: Bad Doggy Gets an Undeserved Bad Rap
Review: Poor CUJO --- everyone always gives this movie a bad rap. Ya, there's way too much soap opera (especially in the first half) and the downer ending of the book has been terribly modified into a happy ending as well as adding a stupid Friday the 13th-type "shock"....but all in all, this is the same story the book told and director Teague definitely sets up the dog attack scenes flawlessly. There are some very harsh scenes of the dog attacking Dee Wallace in the car that rank high in horrific intensity. And Dee Wallace is very good as is the young boy actor. I read the book years ago prior to the film's original release and found it preferable to the film, but the movie (besides the ending) is still an admirable recreation of the same story...why so many viewers hate it so much leads me to believe they never read the book in the first place. The DVD from Artisan is a joke, however...the film is not widescreen and there are no extras not even the trailer (which would have been interesting to see again because Warner Bros. never wanted anyone to know it was about a dog when it was first released!)

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Summary: Entertaining Flick!
Review: Simple movie....family dog chases a rabbit into its hole. While in there gets bit by a rabid bat and is transformed into a murderous hound. It's done well and is definitely entertaining enough to hold your interest. Dee Wallace is again great as the scream queen. The one scene that seemed goofy was where Dee Wallace knees the St. Bernard in the groin which somehow temporarily paralyzes the 200lb rabid dog just enough so she can make it back into the Pinto.
Worth seeing for sure!