Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Movie!
Review: This was a movie that will get your imagination clicking.The
lead character,Cujo, is a family pet(a St. Bernard). Cujo is bitten by a rabid bat. Cujo turns from a loving pet into a rabid killer. Cujo kills several neighbors as a result of rabies.No
one is safe from the giant dog. A woman and her son are trapped in their car by the killer dog. This movie will frighten you.
It is scary but very watchable. This is a movie that you will always remember and will enjoy watching.Buy it.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointed
Review: Up font, I'm a fan of Stephen King. The problem with the film Cujo is lack of suspense. The story is simple; anyone of us could have written this plot. If you live in the county there often are stories of rabid animals. This one just took a slim occurrence and exaggerated it. Although the story is basic and the acting at best is fair, the directing and editing are good; in fact they save this "B" film. Maybe I've gotten numb to suspense and thrillers. Maybe this was scary at the time it was produced in 1983; either way, unless you are collecting Stephen King works, this film is an occasional rental. This film is rated R for graphic violence and due to gore from a pet dog, I wouldn't recommend it for children or pet lovers!
Rating: 
Summary: A film that tells your demons will come back to haunt you!
Review: We all know Cujo is a giant St. Bernard that has to kill because he is rabid. The film works as a horror film because of that concept, but this film and the story writer behind it believe that paybacks are a bitch. Retribution is always around the corner and when it is your time, you don't know if it is going to from a guy in a hockey mask, a massive great white shark,a 58 red and white Plymouth Fury, some idiot with long finger knives or a lovable Saint Bernard. Whatever it is though, sin always accounted for. Cujo subscribes to that theory.
Everyone that dies in this film, with the exception of maybe one, does so because they are not very likable people to begin with. They are all tainted and when Cujo gets a hold of them, we are almost glad that he wants their blood. But it is the climax of the film that is the most intriguing. Because here we have a woman who has gotten rid of her sin. But she now has to face the music not for what she is doing, but for what she has done. And if you read the book, you will see that it sticks to that theory and message much more than the film does. It is understood that Cujo has to have a happy Hollywood ending, and that is fine, but the book tells a much more clear yet paradoxically convoluted tale of a boy, his dog, and how sin is never really forgiven.
What is also great about Cujo is how it shows the dog coming unravelled. We see the transformation from lovable suck of a family dog, to vicious killing machine that has an insatiable need for blood. We see his nose get more wet, we see how certain noises bother him more and we see how much saliva this dog has stored up in his nasty mouth.
Cujo is a good movie. It is scary, especially the last half hour and it actually has a point. It also does a fairly good job of bringing King's vision to life. It is not easy to do that, after all King has a very vivid imagination. But Cujo comes close. Very close
Rating:
Summary: An fine Scary Movie, from the Novel by Stephen King
Review: When a Huge St. Bernard gets bitten by a Rabid Bat. The Dog goes Slowly Turning into a Murdering Beast.Directed by Lewis Teague (Alligator, Cat`s Eye, Jewel of the Nile) delivers a Well-Crafted Thriller. The Suspense is Nice. The Timing is Mostly Dead-On and the Terror is Truly There. This is Based on a Novel by Stephen King (Christine, The Dead Sone, The Stand). This also has an Excellent Cinematography by Filmmaker-Jan de Bont (Speed, Twister, The Haunting). Dee Wallace-Stone is fine as an Adulterous Wife, who finds Himself with her Son (Danny Pintauro) somehow Stranded in an Old Beatup late 70`s Pinto, with the Murdering Dog. Faithfully Adapation from the Stephen King Novel. Well Done. Grade:B+.
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