Christine - 4K + Blu-ray + Digital

Columbia Pictures/Sony has been in trouble financially for a while now There Home Video/Studio is where they can make money but, they have chose to broker a strange deal to sell back catalog titles of there cult/horror films through a indie company (Twilight Times) the problem with this deal the Blu Ray's are a very limited number 5,000 sometimes less There site at times (mostly during Pre-Release of there most popular titles example Night of the Living Dead '90, The Blob (Re-Make) Fright Night) tend to crash a lot anyone who has bought anything from Twilight Times will agree it's like buying a big mac for $20.00 cause only they have the big mac There prices are super over priced and they tack on a extra $4.00 s&h you'll drop almost $35.00 u.s. dollars on a BR with no real exclusives most of the times they take previous extras from the dvd and port them over (with The Blob and second printing of Fright Night they actually put in the effort and gave the fans **real exclusive extras** But, Twilight Times is in no way anywhere close to a Scream Factory or Arrow Films in terms of a Legit Distributor that give a damn about that name sake....... I've dealt with them a handful of times each time i cross my fingers to get my item @ some point I see the company vanishing out of nowhere I don't trust them as a business at all (some movie fans/collector defend Twilight Times and praise them for there effort) They reallly are not in the business for the love of the films they distributor or the prices wouldn't be so crazy Case in point TT got the License to distributed Christine for the first time Ever on Blu Ray (I think it was limited to 3,000 pressed) When the item when on sale there site crashed several times But, a few days later you could find plenty of copies of Christine on Ebay for around $75.00 + It's odd how crocked sellers were able to get a hold of copies of this film with n/p Then jack-up the price for fans who actually wanted it which lead to a secrete sale for the die-hard fans that missed out on getting a copy (Once again I actually was able to get a copy in my cart when i hit check out the site crashed) Twilight Times is a shady sleazy company imo will i deal with them again probably cause I'm a sucker! The Good news finally Columbia did the right thing and released there own blu ray version of Christine If you have the special edition dvd of Christine you can either sell it, donate it, recycle it or give it away! This BR has all the extras the Special Edition dvd has This is the exact same BR twilight times was over charging the consumers double the price for It looks really good i forgot it was from 1983 it really doesn't look that old in terms of the look of the film It has this odd retro look to it I only watched 1/2 of it just to see how the picture looked I'm very impressed by how good it looks over all I'm happy never thought I'd get this on BR without taking out a loan for a copy of it on Blu Ray...... The Audio is awesome DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (I doubt you'll ever hear it sound this good) the S.E. Dvd's audio was pretty good years ago this blows it out of the water it's Flawless and sounds just right!!!! This is a great example why i love DTS Audio if it's decode the proper way with the proper film it's Theater Quality sound at home x5 The film itself IMO Christine is one of John Carpenter's most forgotten films people know Christine as a Stephen King Film most fans forget Carpenter directed it Visual it's one of his best looking films next to The Fog (It has this strange timeless look to it) Seeing it in HD makes you appreciate what a great eye Carpenter has for directing scenes everything looks real and alive If you don't know the story of this film by now you are living under a rock Futurama did a episode doing a parody of it It's a classic........................ Evil lives inside of the car and the evil slowly turns the driver a little mad and evil too The Cast is good: Keith Gordon as Arnie John Stockwell as Dennis, (Stockwell is a actor that should've been much bigger then he ended up the dude could really act not sure how he was never a top leading man in the 80's) Alexandra Paul as Leigh (This is one of Alexandra first major roles and she is a natural always enjoyed her in this film you can clearly see her becoming the next Jamie Lee Curtis as far as being a Scream Queen but, that never happened..... which is such a waste she would've worked watch her in this film and proof me wrong she steals every scene she is in! (I'm surprised Carpenter didn't try and use her again in another film) she is a super under rated attracted actress that can really act (Keep in mind I'm not talking about the time she put into Baywatch I'm sure that was a steady pay check I'd hope anyway) Robert Prosky as Will Darnell Harry Dean Stanton as Detective Rudolph Junkins (almost anything he does is usually gold in my book of memories) Roberts Blossom as George LeBay, (Great actor RIP 1924–2011) Kelly Preston as Roseanne This is a all around great horror film/adaptation there was a lot of love, sweat,and tears put into this film you can tell by the final product They don't make films like this anymore they make torture porn, bad re-makes and scat porn (pretending to be horror) This is iconic and classic there is a reason that 3,000 units crashed a site! Besides inside seller (wink wink) One of the best John Carpenter films to this day and a little under appreciated 9.7/10 This is a must have for the simple fact if it sells enough maybe Sony will wake up and sell there other horror titles on there own for a fair price not some gimmicky limited edition that only screws the fans that love the film Hopefully Columbia/Sony does the right thing and goes into there back catalog re-release a proper color corrected Night of The Living Dead, The Blob and Fright Night Sony wants money flow put out your cult films your make money! But, what do i really know I'm just a american consumer..................

Great movie, great story, excellent soundtrack! I really loved this movie and have re-watched it I don't know how many times. The book was fantastic and this movie really gets it. It stars Keith Gordon as the nerd Arnie who is fascinated by the evil Christine. John Stockwell is great as Dennis, Arnie's best friend and seems like an older brother. Alexandra Paul is terrific as Arnie's girlfriend and scream queen. Harry Dean Stanton is the detective investigating the story and loved him in Alien and everything else. This is my favorite Stephen King movie along with Salem's Lot and is definitely worth the purchase!

Good movie

Phenomenal movie.

Very good old movie

CHRISTINE is a Stephen King novel based John Carpenter flick about an eerie, twisted love story of a teenager and his obsessively jealous 1958 Plymouth Fury --- as only Stephen King can tell it! Christine is a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury who seduces 17-year-old Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon). She demands his complete and unquestioned devotion and when outsiders seek to interfere, they become the victims of Christine's horrifying wrath. This special edition DVD is packed with added features. As Arnie begins to restore the evil Christine to her original beauty, Christine only played old songs from the 1950's Rock & Roll music expressing its feelings towards Arnie & anybody who tampered with her, especially after the car expresses to Arnie that his feelings of admiration for Christine are requited causing Arnie to have a change in behavior & personality bringing out his dark side when he starts spending most of his time with the car. In addition to that, King's novel which was the source for Carpenter's film clearly indicated that the car was possessed by the evil spirit of it's previous owner Roland LeBay showing that the evil spirit surrounding the car was already present the day it was built at the car factory in Detroit along with the fact that Carpenter had decided to make a car the killer & the villain in CHRISTINE instead of having serial killers or mass murderers being the villains like Carpenter did with his horror flicks HALLOWEEN in the Fall of 1978 and THE FOG in the Winter of 1980. As a matter of fact, Carpenter even explains in this DVD's bonus feature how reading King's story of CHRISTINE inspired him to direct this movie, especially since his previous flick THE THING did so poorly at the box office when it was theatrically released in the Summer of 1982. Although Christine was identified as a 1958 Plymouth Fury, they also used 2 other Plymouth models like the Belvedere & the Savoy to portray the malevolent automobile onscreen kind of like how they used 4 Pontiac Trans Ams to run the show on KNIGHT RIDER during its 1982-86 run on NBC and like the producers did with the General Lee on THE DUKES OF HAZZARD during its 1979-85 run on CBS, especially since the '58 Fury's were expensive to buy at the time costing the producers of CHRISTINE a total production of $5,303 bucks. Kevin Bacon was originally offered the role of Arnie Cunningham, but he declined it to do a screen test for the movie FOOTLOOSE, which was a risky move for Bacon at the time, but ended up paying off at the end since FOOTLOOSE was a major success at the box office when it was released in the Winter of 1984. CHRISTINE amassed $3,408,904 landing at #4 during its opening weekend release back in the Fall of 1983 bringing in a total gross of $21,017,849 at the box office. This thriller also had a returning co-star from a previous John Carpenter film too which was Harry Dean Stanton(Det. Rudolph Junkins)which played Brain in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK which was theatrically releases in the Summer of 1981. This thriller also takes me back to memory lane to when I was 11 years old in the 5th grade living in my hometown(El Centro,CA)at the time.

Clássico do terror e como de costume, filmes em 4k dos anos 80 e 90 tem uma qualidade fantástica, trabalho de restauração de tirar o chapéu. Não tem legendas em português

Reçu avant la date prévue et super bien emballer franchement rien à dire vendeur sérieux mon fils est super content il adore ce film

Très bon film avec une meilleur image(4K HD). D'après le livre de Stephen King, plonger dans l'histoire incroyable où une voiture est pourvu d'une âme, pas une âme pure et très sympathique pour pourrez le découvrir en regardant le film. A garder dans sa dvdthèque car les films d'après l'auteur Stephen King sont rarement des succès car mal retranscrit de l'écriture à l'écran malheureusement !

Il film di Carpenter è senza dubbio una delle migliori trasposizioni cinematografiche dei libri di Stephen King che siano mai state fatte. Nonostante il passare del tempo, "Christine" si mantiene efficace e moderno, impreziosito da effetti speciali degni di un film d'azione dei giorni nostri e ulteriormente arricchito dall'ottima resa del video di questo blu-ray (audio meno pregevole, ma comunque ottimo). Sul film in sé c'è poco da aggiungere rispetto a quanto si può dire del romanzo: come in ogni horror che si rispetti, l'avversario non sta tanto nel cattivo "palese" ma in ciò che rappresenta, e così la fascinazione del nerd Arnie per la Plymouth, che degenera ben presto in un'ossessione, se lo aiuta a spazzar via i suoi nemici compromette però irrimediabilmente il rapporto con la famiglia e gli amici; a un livello più profondo (non si dica che gli horror sono superficiali) l'adolescente, non riuscendo a dominare le proprie passioni, ne viene dominato. Film assolutamente da vedere, lo consiglierei anche a chi non è fan del genere o di Stephen King.

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