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Cujo (1983)

R 08/10/1983 Horror, Thriller 1h 33m
62%
User
Score
6.1/10
60%
57/100

Now there's a new name for terror...

Overview

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Lewis Teague

Director

Barbara Turner

Screenplay

Don Carlos Dunaway

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Dee Wallace

Dee Wallace

Donna Trenton

Danny Pintauro

Danny Pintauro

Tad Trenton

Daniel Hugh Kelly

Daniel Hugh Kelly

Vic Trenton

Christopher Stone

Christopher Stone

Steve Kemp

Ed Lauter

Ed Lauter

Joe Camber

Kaiulani Lee

Kaiulani Lee

Charity Camber

Billy Jayne

Billy Jayne

Brett Camber

Mills Watson

Mills Watson

Gary Pervier

Sandy Ward

Sandy Ward

Bannerman

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Media

Q&A with Lewis Teague | TIFF 2024

Q&A with Lewis Teague | TIFF 2024

Cujo (1983) - Trailer

Cujo (1983) - Trailer

CUJO New & Exclusive Trailer

CUJO New & Exclusive Trailer

Mick Garris on CUJO

Mick Garris on CUJO

Cujo - Trailer

Cujo - Trailer

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on October 19, 2014

Barmy Bernard.

Stephen King’s Cujo was brought to the screen and met with indifference back in 1983, yet it’s aged surprisingly well and comes out as one of the better “mad animal” movies that followed in the wake of Jaws.

A big cuddly St. Bernard dog is bitten on the nose by a bat, cops a serious bout of Hydrophobia and then terrorises anyone in its path. Which spells bad news for Donna Trenton (Dee Wallace) and her young son Tad (Danny Pintauro), who have the misfortune to be stuck in a battered old Pinto that has broken down in Cujo’s territory.

Lewis Teague directs with no little skill here, wringing out pot loads of tension and inserting genuine moments of terror as mother and son literally fight for their lives. There’s a school of thought that the film’s first...

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A review by talisencrw

Written on May 19, 2016

This was solid and unexpectedly fulfilling--perhaps because I'm a cat enthusiast and am neutral towards dogs to begin with. My 13-year-old son and I enjoyed it very much. I haven't read the book yet, so it's unnecessary for enjoyment of the movie IMHO. Worth both a purchase and rewatching for genre aficionados....

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A review by Gimly

Written on July 18, 2019

God I forgot how fuckin' annoying that kids screaming is... Mad props to the titular Cujo, but I think this particular King adaptation maybe doesn't hold up as well as I thought it might.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._...

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