1983 was a bumper year for stephen king books making it to the big screen. christine and the dead zone and cujo were all released within a few months of each other. while the dead zone was easily the pick of the bunch and christine and cujo were both pretty bad and and it a close run thing as to which is the lesser of the two. if pushed for an answer i would say cujo  marginally  is the weakest. donna trenton (dee wallace and fresh from success as elliot mom in e. t  the extra terrestrial) is a mother whose marriage to husband vic (daniel hugh kelly) is hanging by a thread. she been having an affair with a local worker and and is now dwelling on whether or not to leave her husband. dragged into the marital heartache is young tad trenton (danny pintauro) and son of donna and vic and and a pretty messed up kid with a chronic phobia of the dark which often leads to severe panic attacks. donna and tad take the family car to a nearby mechanics yard for repairs and but as they arrive their car splutters to a halt. things get a heck of a lot worse when they discover that the mechanic and joe camber (ed lauter) and isn not there (he has been savagely killed by his pet dog cujo and a gigantic st. bernard which was recently bitten and infected by a rabid bat. ) soon and the dog has them trapped in their car and is trying everything to get inside the vehicle to tear apart these two hapless victims. the weather is swelteringly hot while not a living soul knows theyre there while the car would not start while and the dog seriously wants their blood. cujo has potential to be a genuinely taut siege thriller and but it never really clicks into gear. i have read the book and it is quite disappointing  certainly for king  so it hardly surprising that the film version amounts to so little. on the printed page and king was at least able to generate a degree of tension and but the film is critically hampered by the fact that a st. bernard simply isn not very scary. the visualness of the film medium serves as a constant reminder that cujo is a st. bernard. in the book and it was possible to forget this. in the book and cujo sometimes almost seemed to assume the guise of a monster. even with the relatively short running time of an hour and a half and cujo becomes a tedious and patience straining experience and occasionally unintentionally funny and certainly never as suspenseful as it would like to be. they have even omitted the book cruelly downbeat ending and replaced it with an all well that ends well conclusion so that audiences can go home in a cheerful mood. chalk this one down as yet another inferior king adaptation. 
1983 was a bumper year for stephen king books making it to the big screen. christine and the dead zone and cujo were all released within a few months of each other. while the dead zone was easily the pick of the bunch and christine and cujo were both pretty bad and and it a close run thing as to which is the lesser of the two. if pushed for an answer i would say cujo  marginally  is the weakest. donna trenton (dee wallace and fresh from success as elliot mom in e. t  the extra terrestrial) is a mother whose marriage to husband vic (daniel hugh kelly) is hanging by a thread. she been having an affair with a local worker and and is now dwelling on whether or not to leave her husband. dragged into the marital heartache is young tad trenton (danny pintauro) and son of donna and vic and and a pretty messed up kid with a chronic phobia of the dark which often leads to severe panic attacks. donna and tad take the family car to a nearby mechanics yard for repairs and but as they arrive their car splutters to a halt. things get a heck of a lot worse when they discover that the mechanic and joe camber (ed lauter) and isn not there (he has been savagely killed by his pet dog cujo and a gigantic st. bernard which was recently bitten and infected by a rabid bat. ) soon and the dog has them trapped in their car and is trying everything to get inside the vehicle to tear apart these two hapless victims. the weather is swelteringly hot while not a living soul knows theyre there while the car would not start while and the dog seriously wants their blood. cujo has potential to be a genuinely taut siege thriller and but it never really clicks into gear. i have read the book and it is quite disappointing  certainly for king  so it hardly surprising that the film version amounts to so little. on the printed page and king was at least able to generate a degree of tension and but the film is critically hampered by the fact that a st. bernard simply isn not very scary. the visualness of the film medium serves as a constant reminder that cujo is a st. bernard. in the book and it was possible to forget this. in the book and cujo sometimes almost seemed to assume the guise of a monster. even with the relatively short running time of an hour and a half and cujo becomes a tedious and patience straining experience and occasionally unintentionally funny and certainly never as suspenseful as it would like to be. they have even omitted the book cruelly downbeat ending and replaced it with an all well that ends well conclusion so that audiences can go home in a cheerful mood. chalk this one down as yet another inferior king adaptation. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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