Christine vs. The Car

By Stephanie Porteus

HotRodHoney

1958 Plymouth Fury or mysterious Lincoln Mark III? Imagine yourself breathless, running as fast as you can down a dark alleyway being chased by Christine. Or picture yourself running for your life through the arid, sweltering desert, choking on the burning dust with The Car hot on your heels. Out of these automotive Hollywood devils, which would you find more terrifying?

Just in case there’s anyone who hasn’t seen either of these B-movie gems, I won’t give away too much. I’ll just say that both Christine and The Car are formidable automotive monsters–but you can rent the movies this weekend to see for yourself the destruction they wreak. Otherwise, follow the jump to refresh your memory!

Lookout!

Christine is a car that can self-regenerate. That’s always unsettling, yet The Car seems equally indestructible. Both were said to be pure evil. Which was more intimidating? While The Car was racing after its victims, it would sound the horn obnoxiously in an almost mocking manner. On the other hand, Christine would be playing fifties tunes in the most eerie way, seeming to use the songs as a means of communicating sinister underlying messages to her intended victims.

Perhaps easier to understand, Christine simply was in love (albeit voraciously) with her owner, Arnie Cunningham. Her jealousy was a powerful and insatiable force to be reckoned with. Her wicked love for Arnie even causes his nerdish good nature to change into something darker as he gets caught up in her spell and falls deeply in love with her.

The Car was just assumed to be evil, but no explanation is ever really given. It appears that no one is driving The Car, and there are beliefs that it’s the devil’s car.

Out of these two, I would say Christine is the more frightening. She is obsessively in love and there’s nothing scarier than a hyper-jealous gal infatuated with a boy, even if that “gal” is a murderous automobile.

What do you think? Who’s scarier, Christine or The Car?

Permalink:

Posted at 2:40 am in Christine, Movie Cars

Comments

FRSGUMP
Jun 13, 2010 at 6:17 pm

I’d say Christine. The Car reminded me alot of the old semi in the movie “The Dual”. When Christine was all shined up she looked so sweet, but she was a devil in disquise.

MADMAX333
Jun 13, 2010 at 8:33 am

LOL! Definitely Christine. Although the car that they used as Crhistine is not the correct car. In the book Christine was a Plymouth Fury III, which is a Way meaner looking car. I mean there really isn’t anything scary a bout cars from the 50′s, except maybe the crappy manual brakes!

GTwildfire
Jun 11, 2010 at 3:49 pm

A-W-E-S-O-M-E matchup!!!
-
one of my favorites for sure, and it makes the “why didn’t I think of that?” list.
-
This is a draw as far as I’m concerned. They both were impervious till the end, both evil, both killers, neither needed drivers at the wheel to do their evil deeds… would NOT want either snapping at my heels… How can I pick one over the other?

JoeCool6972
Jun 10, 2010 at 5:21 pm

Christine definitely, because the car was a stupid movie.

And I say the winner takes on the truck from “The Duel”

chevyman327nova
Jun 9, 2010 at 4:41 pm

I havent seen the car yet so i couldnt say is there anywhere i can see these old car movies online cuz they are hard to find and they aint on tv much.?

retroman
Jun 9, 2010 at 4:07 pm

Definitely Christine. Hell hath no Fury like this Plymouth scorned… As a side note, sometimes I wonder if my first car, aptly named Cristina, has a similar personality… Although I named my car Cristina for the true meaning of her name- “Christ like”. In stock form, she couldn’t break the law no matter how hard I tried. Only time I got caught speeding was going down hill. But she did have a mind of her own it seems.

dudefromthenorth
Jun 9, 2010 at 9:29 am

Heh. “The Car” was inspriration for that Futurama Episode when Bender turns into a Were-Car.

Stephanos
Jun 9, 2010 at 4:53 am

I liked both, but if I had to choose which one I thought was more menacing, I say Christine. That car was mean right from the start, literally. I loved the assembly-line scene. The movie itself was well done.