Article of the Week - Christine

Christine
The novel about the killer Plymouth Fury
car was adapted into a movie in 1983

Christine is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces. Much of the action takes place in and around the fictional town of Libertyville, Pennsylvania. Later that same year, a film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, and Harry Dean Stanton, was released.

In 1978, while driving home from work, high school friends Dennis Guilder and Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham spot a dilapidated 1958 red and white Plymouth Fury sitting in front of a house. Arnie makes Dennis stop so he can examine the car. The owner, Roland D. LeBay, an elderly gentleman wearing a back brace, offers to sell the car (named "Christine") to Arnie for $250. Unable to pay the full amount, Arnie gives LeBay a $25 deposit and agrees to return the next day with the balance.

Arnie and Dennis return the following day, and LeBay invites Arnie into his house to sign the paperwork. While waiting for Arnie, Dennis decides to sit inside Christine, and as he does, he has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they were in 1958 when the car was new. Frightened, Dennis gets out of Christine, and decides that he does not like Arnie's new car.....

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