Cujo

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Blatt & Robert Singer</B></div> <div> <B>Director of Photography..Jan DeBont</B></div> <div> <B>Special Visual Effects & Make up by Peter Knowlton & Rick Josephson</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Book by Stephen King (Creepshow, Cat's Eye, Misery)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Donna Trenton.....Dee Wallace (Alligator II, E.T., The Howling)</B></div> <div> <B>Vic Trenton.......Daniel Hugh-Kelly (Nowhere to Hide)</B></div> <div> <B>Steve Kemp........Christopher Stone (Blue Movies, The Howling)</B></div> <div> <B>Joe Camber........Ed Lauter (Golden Years, Magic, The Rocketeer)</B></div> <div> <B>Charity Camber....Kaiulani Lee (Zelly and Me)</B></div> <div> <B>Gary Pervier......Mills Watson(Heated Vengeance, Kansas City Massacre)</B></div> <div> <B>Tad...............Danny Pintauro (The Beniker Gang,Who's the Boss?-TV) Bannerman.........Sandy Ward</B></div> <div> <B>Masen.............Jerky Mardin</B></div> <div> <B>Professor.........Merrit Olsen</B></div> <div> <B>Roger Breakstone..Arthur Rosenberg</B></div> <div> <B>Harry.............Terry Donovan-Smith</B></div> <div> <B>Meara.............Robert Elross</B></div> <div> <B>Fournier..........Robert Behling</B></div> <div> <B>Lady Reporter.....Calire Nono</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Merkatz.......Daniel H. Blatt </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: As usual, Stephen King movies mean good production values and enough money to scare up an effective director and real actors. Certainly Teague does a good job of keeping things going in spite of a certain thinness to the idea, at least for a full-length movie. Tad's fear of the monster in the closet is classic Stephen King stuff. When you're around four years old, those monsters do tend to lurk in closets. Also well done is the dark music we get as the once affable Cujo falls more and more under the effects of the disease. Every time someone bangs against something, the dog shifts restlessly, giving a low growl. A nice confrontation between Brett and Cujo in the fog once Cujo has really started to slather. There are some pretty tense car scenes as well, as Tad does a pretty good job of simulating asthmatic seizures. It is also interesting that the unfaithful Donna is the hero, fighting to save her son. Perhaps Cujo is God's avenger, paying her back for her breaking her sacred vows. Let's face it though, this movie is a bit of a dog. A St. Bernard just isn't that scary even if you put mud all over him and run him enough to get some convincing slather going. The movie is nicely put together and you've got to give them some cujos for that. Following this effort with Alligator and Cat's Eye, director Teague swore not to work with animals again.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: A St. Bernard lumbers after a rabbit to strangely up beat music, cornering it in a small cave. Unfortunately, the fruit bats who live there get a good hold of its snout. We get a good look at a shrieking bat. Switch to a scene with a little boy, Tad, in his pajamas and a stuffed closet that pops open. The light goes out and there's a mad rush to the safety of the blankets. When the closet pops open again: "Mommy!" Daddy, for all his looking, can't find the yellow eyed, big toothed wheezing monster. Tad's assured in standard grown-up denial-ese that there are no monsters. A quick glance at the room in the morning shows a barricade in front of the closet, but as comes the sunlight, so goes all the fright. Steve Kemp, the carpenter, drops by for a cup of coffee. He's not only there for breakfast, though, as he's also Tad's mother's lover. She is not particularly impressed with herself, but apparently an advertising man just doesn't do it for her. Remarkably, Vic's reaction to the fact that he and his wife Donna have nothing to say to one another is that they have another baby. At this too she seems less than enthusiastic. Vic pulls in to have his MG serviced, fortunately, at least for city folk, there's a back up. Fortunately, he gets the word from the mail man that Joe Camber down the road'll do it. The Trenton family pulls up to Joe's rickety place. He, his wife, and the baseball playing twelve year old Brett are classic movie white trash, and they make an uncomfortable mix with the upwardly mobile Trentons. The Cambers also own a big ugly St. Bernard named Cujo. But Cujo's friendly. He also has an ugly looking ulcer on his nose. Back home, Donna's rolling over away from Vic in bed, and Vic's ad campaign involving "the professor" has gone up in smoke as the cereal has kids puking all over the country. It looks like people don't trust the professor any more and the account, along with its unreassuring academic pitch man, looks like it's headed south. Out at the Cambers' things aren't going that well either, as Cujo's getting more and more annoyed at the sound of the power tools. That red ulcer isn't getting any prettier either. Maybe Donna feels like it's time to pull things together as she tells the local stud it's all over. Unfortunately, when studly Steve stops to argue about it with his shirt off in the street, Vic gets a look at them together and starts to wonder. Vic starts asking about what mom did today. Steve has gotten a bit restless and comes to start up with Donna again. Vic comes in and doesn't need to have a picture drawn. He decides its a good time to take a ten day business trip. Cuckold Vic is feeling pretty slighted and takes the sports car, leaving Donna the clunker. Brett tries to tell his mother about Cujo's acting and looking a bit strange, but she tells him, in horror movie denial-ese, to tell his father. She wants to be sure not to jeopardize the once in a lifetime trip she and her son are about to embark on with the 5,000 in lottery money she won. Cujo, meanwhile, has started to prowl around the neighbor's house, and the minute Gary the neighbor sees Cujo he starts talking in his best calming voice. As one can imagine, the now mad Cujo isn't listening. When Joe sees what's going on next door he doesn't quite have time to call the police before the blood soaked Cujo pays him a visit as well. Pretty soon Donna and Tad drive up to have Joe give the clunker the once over just as the battery about gives out. Unfortunately, Cujo's the only ambulatory one home now. Pretty soon there's lots of scenes of slathery jaws against the window. Tad is very disappointed about being lied to about there being no monsters and his father isn't around to tell. We get some pretty agonizing shots of Donna trying to get the completely beat car going as Cujo watches and waits. Pretty soon Cujo has about had it and starts bashing his head against the car. Cujo's big enough that the issue is in doubt whether he'll open it up or not. The heat and all Cujo's activities get Tad's asthma going and he starts crying for his daddy. This gets the unfaithful Donna pretty desperate, and she starts eying Brett's abandoned baseball bat. When people start making their way to the Camber house, Cujo's there to greet them. Don't expect to get out of this one without a monster intermezzo, before the meanest dog eat dog showdown - a rabid canine and a mother protecting her child.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>