At number 28 on my list of films to watch, comes a film based on the Stephen King novel about a rabid dog who terrorizes a small town.
When Cujo, a dog from a nearby farm, contracts rabies from a bat bite, he slowly transforms from a friendly St Bernard, into a demon dog from hell. He kills anyone around him by mauling them to death, and attacks anyone in the nearby vicinity. When an unsuspecting mother and son arrive trying to get their car fixed by the mechanic (who has recently been killed by Cujo), the two end up trapped in their broken down car trying to fend of the ferocious canine.
It is a thriller/horror with a simple story, one which I’m sure would have been really scare in book form, or even watching the film twenty years ago, but now it seems awfully tame. Also, the filming is extremely dated, and does not stand up with modern horror films.
The most impressive part of the film is the dog. Everything is real, there is not CGI, so all the stunts involving the dog were actually performed, giving the film some considerable ammunition. The back story of the family is not really developed in the movie, and the issues about the dad’s business trouble, and the mother’s affair seem relatively undeveloped.
A simple storyline that has failed to impress. With none of the, excuse me for this, “bite” I was expecting, a rather lacklustre start to the 50 Films List.
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