Cujo (25th Anniversary Edition)

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In rural Maine, Vic and Donna Trenton (Hugh-Kelly and Wallace) struggle to repair their crumbling marriage, while their young son Tad (Danny Pintauro) befriends a hulking, lovable, 200-pound St. Bernard named Cujo. With Vic away on business, Donna and Tad take their decrepit car to be fixed at the remote farm of their mechanic (Lauter). As their aging Pinto sputters to a stop and dies, Cujo appears. But the once docile dog has undergone a hideous transformation - and becomes a slavering, demonic, killer possessed by almost supernatural strength...and unholy cunning. Critically acclaimed, CUJO is a fearsome, spine-chilling tour de force from the most popular name in horror!

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Its Comming........2007-09-10

Cujo fans have waited a while for this. A special edition of this Stephen King classic. This film rocks. It is better than the book. It is very realistic. You can expect good picture quality and some very good extras on this. The cover art is good too. Recommended.

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Please, Don't get mad, this is worse than "The Shining"
Dog Lover Having Second Thoughts
Dog obviously happy during acting...
Widescreen format PLEASE
good movie

Cujo
Starring: Dee Wallace (II) , Danny Pintauro , Daniel Hugh Kelly , Christopher Stone , and Ed Lauter
Director: Lewis Teague
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00005O438
Release Date: 2001-10-04

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This 1983 adaptation of the Stephen King horror novel is the anti-Beethoven, the story of a rabid St. Bernard that terrorizes a community, tears up a few folks, and goes after a woman and her son. Once the point has been made that big, lovable Cujo has been bitten by a rabid bat, there isn't much more to say. The film is essentially a linear progression of doggy violence, though director Lewis Teague (The Jewel of the Nile)--building on King's implication that we all know what it's like to be afraid of a big, scary pooch--succeeds at making the fear almost primitive for an audience. --Tom Keogh

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Please, Don't get mad, this is worse than "The Shining".......2007-08-08

Oh man do people get mad at me when I say that, but it's true. At no time was I ever scared or even creeped out, just bored and ready for it to end. Once again Mr. King eludes the big screen's grasp!

Dog Lover Having Second Thoughts.......2007-07-24

I am a huge dog lover, but this movie had me looking at canines in a different light for quite some time while I was little. For some reason, I always relate this movie to "Sandlot," but this dog really was ridiculously mean. The scene in the junkyard made my eyes widen a couple times, and I'd give this movie four stars for being entertaining. Scary? Not at all. The book was even more grotesque, and I enjoyed every minute of it. All I kept thinking through the book and the movie was "What is taking so long for someone to shoot this dog?!"

Dog obviously happy during acting..........2007-06-01

This movie looses it's scary factor when you have a dog yourself and read their bodylanguage. The dog is not mean, evil or dangerous, like in the scene where Cujo jumps onto the car, the dog is obviously searching for a ball inside and tries to "dig inside" to get it. But by adding roars and growlings this scene is supposed to look like a rabid dog trying to kill a mother and her son. The dog also wags it tail when it sees the actors = happy dog.
However, I do like the story, so I wish someday they'll remake it and make Cujo computer-animated, making him scary.

Widescreen format PLEASE.......2007-05-27

No one should purchase a movie on DVD that is not in widescreen format. This film was originally released in widescreen format, so until you sell it in widescreen format, I'm not buying it.

good movie.......2007-02-24

the movie was good and all bu their were a couple let downs,

1. the ending was WAY different then the book (not going to spoil it)
2. wasn't as scary as you would think
3. boring at times

i would recomend the book over the movie any day

Stephen King Horror DVD Collection (Cujo/Golden Years/The Langoliers/The Stand/Thinner)

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Classic Stephen King collection
A so so collection.
Best Ever
fantastic
3 Great Movies, One okay movie, and one piece of garbage

Stephen King Horror DVD Collection (Cujo/Golden Years/The Langoliers/The Stand/Thinner)
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ASIN: B00005U8Q7
Release Date: 2002-01-15

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Classic Stephen King collection.......2007-07-30

This is a great collection for any Stephen King fan.

Although I enjoyed "Golden Years", I would have liked it extended. The plot and character development have all the potential to have been made into a two series tv program. That was the only thing stopping me from giving it five stars.

A so so collection........2006-08-10

Here are my thoughts on this DVD collection. Cujo and The Stand are great movies. Thinner and Golden years suck big time. The Langoliers would be great if only it were rereleased with some better special effects (primarily the CGI needs much work). All in all, not a bad collection, but only two out of five movies in the pack are worth keeping. However this is just my point of view, if you like the films in this collection, I would recomend it to you. After all, everyone is different, right. Well, thats my review.

Best Ever.......2006-07-25

Well since I love horror and especially Stephen King, this collection is great!!!
I love all the movies in it and can't wait to collect more!!

I have 13 Stephen King movies so far....

fantastic.......2006-07-09

IT WAS A VERY SPECIAL NIGHT FOR OUR FAMILY. WE HAD READ THE BOOKS AND THE WAY THEY WERE REPRESENTED IN MOVIE FORM WAS EXCEPTIONAL. I WOULD ADVISE A VIEWING OF THESE MOVIES TO EVERYONE.

3 Great Movies, One okay movie, and one piece of garbage.......2005-10-04

First of all, if you don't like long movies steer clear of this set. With the exception of Thinner and Cujo these movies are 4 hours long and up. As far as the contents, this box set has some great movies, Cujo is a classic horror film that caused me to have a phobia of dogs when I was little. The Stand is one of the best (and longest) movies I have ever seen, a classic good vs evil or even the disciples vs Satan. And then there is the Langoliers, a movie that understandably gets different review but I though was brilliant and very well casted. Along these three excellent movies there is Thinner which isn't a bad movie but it's nothing exceptional either, and The Golden Years which is a long long boaring piece of garbage. I have yet to make it through the Golden Years in one sitting without falling asleep so I have no idea how it ends but from other reviews it's just as bad as the rest of the movie. For the money this is a solid buy, especially if you are a Stephen King fan as I am. I do want to know when will the put some of his other great movies in one package. Movies like Needful Things, The Tommyknockers, Storm of the Century, and It? Just a thought!

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Please, Don't get mad, this is worse than "The Shining"
Dog Lover Having Second Thoughts
Dog obviously happy during acting...
Widescreen format PLEASE
good movie

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Customer Reviews:

Please, Don't get mad, this is worse than "The Shining".......2007-08-08

Oh man do people get mad at me when I say that, but it's true. At no time was I ever scared or even creeped out, just bored and ready for it to end. Once again Mr. King eludes the big screen's grasp!

Dog Lover Having Second Thoughts.......2007-07-24

Dog obviously happy during acting..........2007-06-01

Widescreen format PLEASE.......2007-05-27

No one should purchase a movie on DVD that is not in widescreen format. This film was originally released in widescreen format, so until you sell it in widescreen format, I'm not buying it.

good movie.......2007-02-24

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Two good but not great film adaptations of King novels

Thinner/Cujo
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ASIN: B00008G5UB
Release Date: 2002-04-23

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THINNER: Based on the best-seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke (RoboCop 3, Tombstone) and Joe Mantegna (Bugsy, The Godfather III) in a story of supernatural terror and a countdown to the ultimate payback. A 109-year-old gypsy, hell-bent on revenge, exacts a curse so shocking it compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out and a torture so bizarre and powerful, even death seems a more likely option. CUJO: Monstrous canine evil stalks a helpless, isolated family in this shock-packed horror-thriller from suspense master Stephen King's best-selling novel! Starring Dee Wallace (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Howling, 10), Daniel Hugh-Kelly (Nowhere to Hide) and Ed Lauter (King Kong, Girls Just Want to Have Fun), CUJO unleashes the ultimate in nightmarish, unrelenting terror.

In rural Maine, Vic and Donna Trenton (Hugh-Kelly and Wallace) struggle to repair their crumbling marriage, while their young son Tad (Danny Pintauro) befriends a hulking, loveable, 200-pound St. Bernard named Cujo. With Vic away on business, Donna and Tad take their decrepit car to be fixed at the remote farm of their mechanic (Lauter). As their aging Pinto sputters to a stop and dies, Cujo appears. But the once docile dog has undergone a hideous transformation - and becomes a slavering, demonic, implacable killer possessed by almost supernatural strength...and unholy cunning. Critically acclaimed, CUJO is a fearsome, spine-chilling tour de force from the most popular name in horror!

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Two good but not great film adaptations of King novels.......2005-09-06

If Thinner had been one of King's better novels, he would not have released it as Bachman; thus, the movie has little chance of becoming a classic or universal crowd-pleaser. The main problem with this whole story is in fact one of thinness; unlike the main character, who enters the arena rather hugely and soon wastes away to nothing, the storyline starts out thin and basically remains that way. Thinner just doesn't have the feel a Stephen King movie (or novel) should have; very little of consequence happens outside the tight strictures of the basic plotline; none of the characters seems to bring any life to what they are doing, and no one besides the young daughter is even remotely likable. Depth of character and the inherently interesting relationships between seemingly real individuals make up one of the greatest strength's driving King's creations; oftentimes, movie adaptations fail to capture this important magic and, predictably, prove somewhat disappointing. In the case of Thinner, such depth was never there to begin with.

Thinner is about as straightforward a plot as you will ever get from Stephen King. Billy Halleck, an obese, morally ambivalent lawyer accidentally (with some help from his unsavory wife) runs over an old gypsy woman. His friendship with the chief of police and presiding judge allows him to walk away scot-free, a fact which obviously annoys the victim's 106-year old father. This gypsy king places a curse upon the men who killed and then covered up the death of his daughter. Billy's curse comes down to one word, "Thinner." He quickly finds himself losing weight, which seems to be a blessing - at first. It doesn't take him long to figure out, though, that he is dropping two to four pounds a day regardless of how much food he throws down his throat. When he sees the effect of the gypsy curse on his two friends, reality hits him like a great big frying pan. As his fear and paranoia increase exponentially, he grows distrustful of his own wife, who truly is just a little too friendly to his basically unhelpful doctor. In desperation, having failed to convince the gypsy to release his curse, Billy turns to one of his shady clients, using him to implement his own "white man's curse" on the gypsy king and his thoroughly despicable grand-daughter. The ending of the movie differs slightly from King's original ending, but it comes off rather well.

Cujo is probably my least favorite of all the Stephen King films. Let's start with the fact that the novel is not conducive to a film adaptation in the first place - the idea of Cujo is a good one, but the characters and atmosphere of the story are as unappealing as meatloaf left out in the hot sun for about three months. Vic Trenton (Daniel Hugh Kelly) is the only half-way sympathetic character to be found here, but he, unfortunately, looks like a reject from The Brady Bunch. Then you have his wife Donna (Dee Wallace); not only is she unattractive, she is having an affair with one of her husband's friends. And young Tad (Danny Pintauro) - I know he's a little kid, and we were all scared of the dark at that age, and all of us would have squawked incessantly if we were trapped in a car by a giant rabid hellhound, but he is just so incredibly annoying. Less important characters, such as Donna's illicit boy toy and the dysfunctional Camber family, suck what little air is left over out of the room. The town itself looks like it should have been abandoned ten years ago. And the lighting - a sunny day has never been as depressing as what you see here. I don't like the music, either, but I guess I've complained enough already.

And what of Cujo himself? Normally, as an animal lover, I would fall in love with any animal in a film. Not Cujo. Sure, he didn't go out and get rabies on purpose, but he had no business chasing that cute little bunny rabbit in to the bat-occupied hole in the ground in the first place. On top of that, he proved unable to finish the job when he had the film's two least likable characters trapped. I've got to give the canine actor his props, though, as he gave everything he had to this film. He had to endure all kinds of miseries to take on the look of a rabid gigantic killer, and he held nothing back when told to attack people, cars, doors, windows - whatever. He also, I am quite sure, did all of his own stunts. Sadly, in yet another slap in the mug to canine actors everywhere, he was left entirely out of the credits. He was the only actor in this production who deserved to have his name in lights, yet he didn't even rate the same dignity as the film's best boy and assistant cooks.

All in all, Thinner is a perfectly good movie that really doesn't even aspire to anything greater than what it is. Stephen King makes another memorable appearance as the town pharmacist, and that is pretty much the highlight of the whole film for me. Obviously, I pretty much hated watching Cujo, but I must admit that, by and large, it was a pretty good adaptation of King's novel - although I was exceedingly disheartened to find that the director lacked the courage to end the film the way Stephen King ended the novel. A lot of people complained about King's ending, but it was the right one and should have carried over to the film adaptation.

Horror Collector's Pack (Cujo/The Langoliers/Thinner)

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Not what DVD is meant to be.
Four outta Five ain't bad...
I love these 3 classic horror films!
It's King at his best!

Horror Collector's Pack (Cujo/The Langoliers/Thinner)

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ASIN: 0782011055
Release Date: 1999-10-26

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Not what DVD is meant to be........2001-07-31

Thinner is the only one with commentary from cast/director. Cujo is in Mono! Not even close to the potential that DVD has. All three of these movies could have been put on one disc. ?????????????????????????

Four outta Five ain't bad..........2000-03-25

I gave this collection 4 stars because it contains the 5 star movie "The Langoliers". I took a star away because I was left wishing that "The Langoliers" and "Cujo" had a little more to them. A "cast list" and an "extra scenes" option would have been nice. I guess I expect more from a DVD. I like all three of these movies and look forward to watching them again.

I love these 3 classic horror films!.......1999-11-18

i especially like cujo but i think it should be the shining,pet sematary,and carrie

It's King at his best!.......1999-11-07

This was worth every penny I have paid. It has three of the best movies based on the books of Stephen King. It is certainly a must for all King fans!

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Rottweiler Dogs Of Hell

Manufacturer: Titanium Imageworks.com
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Rottweiler

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As Seen In Fangoria Magazine
Cult Classic Horror

ASIN: B000HKHXEY

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As Seen In Fangoria Magazine this cult classic horror is a must for your collection. Army Special Forces secret weapon, killer Rottwilers, have escaped on an unsuspecting mountain resort. The town sheriff (Earl Owensby) faces the deadliest of Rottwilers (Damien), the most terrifying animal in movie history. Cujo Who?

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Cujo
Starring: Dee Wallace-Stone , Danny Pintauro , Daniel Hugh Kelly , Christopher Stone , and Ed Lauter
Director: Lewis Teague
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ASIN: B0001E5T74

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Please, Don't get mad, this is worse than "The Shining"
Dog Lover Having Second Thoughts
Dog obviously happy during acting...
Widescreen format PLEASE
good movie

Cujo [Region 2]
Starring: Dee Wallace (II) , Danny Pintauro , Daniel Hugh Kelly , Christopher Stone , and Ed Lauter
Director: Lewis Teague
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Please, Don't get mad, this is worse than "The Shining".......2007-08-08

Oh man do people get mad at me when I say that, but it's true. At no time was I ever scared or even creeped out, just bored and ready for it to end. Once again Mr. King eludes the big screen's grasp!

Dog Lover Having Second Thoughts.......2007-07-24

Dog obviously happy during acting..........2007-06-01

Widescreen format PLEASE.......2007-05-27

No one should purchase a movie on DVD that is not in widescreen format. This film was originally released in widescreen format, so until you sell it in widescreen format, I'm not buying it.

good movie.......2007-02-24

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