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Cujo

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Original title

Cujo

Year

1983

Running time

91 min.

Country

United States

Director

Lewis Teague

Screenwriter

Lauren Currier, Don Carlos Dunaway. Novel: Stephen King

Cast

Music

Charles Bernstein

Cinematography

Jan de Bont

Producer

Warner Bros.

Genre

Horror | Animals. Dogs/Wolves

Movie Groups

Stephen King Adaptations

Synopsis

Donna Trenton is discovered by her husband Vic to be having an affair with Steve Kemp. Vic leaves town to sort things out. While he is away she drives their car out to the Camber farmhouse to have it repaired. But there the car breaks down and she and her son Tad are trapped in it by Cujo, a rabid St Bernard.

Rankings Position

#19 Animal Horror Ranking
#95 Best Movies about Animals

Critics' reviews

"Although well-made, this screen adaptation of Stephen King's Cujo emerges as a dull, uneventful entry in the horror genre."

Variety Staff: Variety
"'Cujo' is by no means a horror classic, but it's suspenseful and scary."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"'Cujo' is one of those nightmares that does not require even the suspension of disbelief. Anyone who can accept that there are dogs, people and cars that don't work can be scared silly by this movie"

Bill Cosford: Miami Herald
Is it possible for a horror movie to be too good? If it is, then Cujo is it (...) an experience that borders on the unbearably intense."

Jay Snow: The Globe and Mail
"For all its ingenuity, 'Cujo' does lose an awful lot of ground from the fact that rabid St Bernards tend to evoke pity rather than terror."

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