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Keith Gordon as Arnie Cunningham, high school senior

Rockbridge, California, Fall/Winter 1978

Film: Christine
Release Date: December 9, 1983
Director: John Carpenter
Costume Designer: Darryl Levine

WARNING! Spoilers ahead!

Background

No shitter ever came between me and Christine!

Christine drove into theaters 40 years ago today, directed by the great John Carpenter and adapted by Bill Phillips from Stephen King’s supernatural horror novel of the same name that had been published just months earlier. The titular Christine is a white-over-red 1958 Plymouth Fury, high-schooler Arnie Cunningham’s prized possession… and possibly also possessed by a homicidal demon. Continue reading →