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Cujo

Cujo

1983
Suspense/Thriller, Horror
1h 33m
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town. (imdb)
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Cujo

1983
Suspense/Thriller, Horror
1h 33m
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Avg Percentile 34.01% from 899 total ratings

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Rated 17 Jul 2010
26
8th
When I watched Beethoven I always wondered how cool it would be if that dog went rabid and killed everyone. Now I know the answer, and it is not as amusing as I hoped for.
Rated 26 Jul 2008
55
36th
The book is a lot better. This is a decent take on the classic novel, and there's some great stuntwork. But, there's nothing else to appreciate in this disappointing adaptation.
Rated 26 Feb 2011
36
7th
Mistakes - 1) When Tad begs his Mom to try turning on the car, Tad crosses his fingers before his Mom asks him to. 2) The position of the book on top of the TV keeps changing, as Tad watches Scooby-Doo whilst eating his breakfast at the table, and as the conversation between Donna, Vic, Tad and Steve continues through the scene.
Rated 12 Apr 2011
45
15th
The dog has a giant gash above its nose, in the book it's just a lil scratch on his muzzle, this is a big gaping hole. YOU ARE IDIOTS AND ALL DESERVED YOUR FATE. MOVIE IDIOTS. If this had the Frank Dodd thing in it, it would've been a BIT BETTER. But I doubt the team of idiots on this movie would know where to begin. TAD NOT DYING is stupid, in the book it was SPOOKY because that kid was FUDGED either way, Frank Dodd was going to eat him in his closet or Frank Dodd the Dog was. SPOILERS.
Rated 22 May 2011
66
24th
An underrated Stephen King movie, though still a little flawed. Although about 95% of the movie seems to take place in a car, it still keeps you at the edge of your seat. Dee Wallace gives a good performance as a mother who must do anything she can to protect her asthmatic son from a rabid St. Bernard.
Rated 01 Aug 2014
60
15th
Needs a remake. The film doesn't really "start" until about 45 minutes into it. Trash the unnecessary cheating subplot and the shit about monsters in the closet and cut to the chase. There's great moments once she's trapped in the car, but there's no momentum before then. Just padding.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
31
3rd
Bad adaptation of a bad book. Sold!
Rated 15 May 2010
68
48th
A horror classic with severe sexual undercurrents. This is a film filled with blood, sweat, heat and foamy white stuff, so I can't believe I'm alone in this. Cujo, bit by a bat and "out for blood", is a vampire, killing off those people guilty of sexual impropriety (because that's what vampires do)- so the mother has to redeem her adultery by killing Cujo and saving her son. It's done with palpable tension, great cinematography and believable animal acting and I think it's very misunderstood
Rated 28 Aug 2018
50
31st
Storyline is boring But that "Mad Dog" scared the heck out of me
Rated 09 Sep 2019
49
5th
This film takes way to long to get going. The first half is really boring and the characters are uninteresting. There are some good but predictable scenes in the final third of the film but not enough to recommend it.
Rated 03 Dec 2006
59
54th
Not bad King adaptation, easily one of the best, about a mad pup gone wild. Surprisingly good animal stuntwork.
Rated 04 Dec 2006
74
47th
Book was better
Rated 07 Apr 2007
60
47th
Not good but the book wasn't either
Rated 24 Jun 2007
75
54th
The whining kid ruined this movie for me. Also, rabbies or not, in the end it's still just a big fuckin' dog.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
10
4th
Umm, yeah.. that dog is real scary. Ooh! a dog! run for your lives, we're done for!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
25th
Decent horror.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
87
87th
Most people will say Jaws freaked them out when they were younger. Cujo freaked me out pretty badly when I was younger, and I still place it as one of my all-time favorite horror movies ever. Sure, not a great transfer from the book, but DAMN is the St. Bernard scary and realistic.
Rated 22 Aug 2007
30
30th
ok
Rated 17 Sep 2007
60
39th
not very good, but some parts work pretty well
Rated 05 Feb 2008
70
61st
Gotta love a killer St Bernard. Toe knee :-)
Rated 09 Mar 2008
81
74th
True to the book (afaik) and tense all the way through.
Rated 22 Jun 2008
75
76th
Chilling.
Rated 13 Aug 2008
34
22nd
Bloodthirsty and raw, I was terrified!
Rated 03 Oct 2008
40
17th
Frustratingly terrible movie. The interaction between mother/son and the rabid dog is some of the most contrived, implausible, and laughably ridiculous conflict I've ever seen in a "realistic" horror movie. By the end of the movie, you feel more rage toward the mother for being so useless and neglectful of her son, and feel more genuine sympathy for the rabid dog who should have been easily dealt with by any of the numerous humans he encounters (especially the cop).
Rated 20 Nov 2008
30
9th
Boring wanna-be Horror that sinks to the ground of bad 80's Horror Movies...terrible
Rated 15 Dec 2008
30
4th
bleh, i was pretty much bored during the entire film.
Rated 15 May 2009
84
62nd
Having just watched this again recently, and consequently being horrified by it, it still reigns as one of the best King adaptatations.
Rated 27 May 2010
80
62nd
The movie is pretty effective in creating a sense of hopelessness. Not one of King's best adaptations, but definitely not one of the worst.
Rated 14 Jun 2010
2
16th
The definition of one-note.
Rated 26 Jul 2010
53
33rd
Eh. Felt a tad unrealistic. Just kill the dog already woman, sheesh! Unless that dog had a thing for the woman, I don't think he would've been smart enough in that state to stick around and wait.
Rated 18 Sep 2010
30
17th
Dirty dogs are scary. :( At least it was played good with the fear of pets riot and mother-child bond.
Rated 16 Oct 2010
60
26th
Bad dog!
Rated 17 Oct 2010
20
41st
"Directed by Lewis Teague with less cinematographic flair than even the TV miniseries for 'Salem's Lot, Cujo unfortunately demonstrates the difficulty in adapting King's shorter works." - Eric Henderson
Rated 18 Oct 2010
45
34th
Bad doggie!
Rated 10 Jan 2011
47
24th
Happy ending?
Rated 09 Dec 2011
29
5th
Nope.
Rated 30 Jan 2012
38
18th
Usually movies with this much padding have moments of action that are so profound and enthralling that it was still considered worthwhile to make a feature film around it. Cujo is very unique in that respect, because these moments of action only escape being accidentally funny by being sickly and joyless. I think child services needed to escort Danny Pintauro off the set, cause he's Shelley Duvallin' up a storm.
Rated 17 Jul 2012
40
6th
This movie was slow, and had a lot of plot holes (most of them because the movie ignores the demonic theme of the book and has the dog be a normal rabbid dog, which leads to a lot of questions as to how it can take so much punishment, why it hasn't died of dehydration, why its sop obsessed with a few people in a car and hasn't wondered away, etc. I found the main kid really annoying, I was hoping the dog would get him. The movie also has a few plotlines that go nowhere. Its just not a good movie
Rated 29 Aug 2012
10
2nd
Another example of the pathetic lack of imagination Steven King brings into everything he does. Here is another ten minute story told over an hour and a half. This movie makes no sense, and is more laughable than scary. A good horror movie begins with a good story, followed by a good script, then possibly a good film can be made. Steps 1 and 2 were complete failures, so everything after that just stinks. But then again, it's slightly better than Jaws 3.
Rated 26 Oct 2012
50
20th
* Casting, Acting : 5 * Script : 4 * Directing, Aura : 5 * Ease of Viewing : 6 * Naked Eye : 5
Rated 31 Dec 2012
65
33rd
This is a fairly intense Stephen King movie. Particularly because of the focal point of it, which is the car scene.
Rated 24 Mar 2013
75
78th
A rare well acted horror. Slow start, scary dog.
Rated 13 Aug 2014
80
50th
There's no good in this Stephen King chiller, and no evil. Just the indifferent forces of nature. Terribly sad, it revolves around a series of indirect circumstances. It sports a pace that's deliberate and deeply character-driven. And as excruciating as it is to watch the suffering and deterioration of the title pooch, there's no denying that the culmination to and moments of his attack are extremely intense, primarily thanks to well above-average work by cast, camera and cutting.
Rated 14 Oct 2014
7
58th
This movie takes its time to get going, but when it does the editing, sound design and performances are visceral. If you don't like dogs, this movie will remind you why and if you do like dogs the dog is really cute for the first thirty seconds. Awh puppy.
Rated 02 Nov 2015
72
24th
The scenes where the mother and child are under attack from Cujo in their car are pretty damn intense. Claustrophobic and messy, and taps right into the innate fear we have of wild beasts. I have no idea how they managed to spin this out into a whole movie though. The characters were all disposable and every non-action scene was dull as dishwater. If ever a movie could be boiled down to just one sequence that matters, this is it.
Rated 09 Dec 2015
55
30th
a dog with rabies doesn't fill a feature film. so elliot's mom needs to fuck around some...which does neither add to, nor detract from anything. err..ok, what else we got? ah, a dog with rabies...
Rated 20 May 2016
71
53rd
I suppose this isn't a very good movie, but the circumstances under which I watched it made it a lot more enjoyable than it ought to have been, and as King adaptations go, it is endearing despite its datedness and obvious shortcomings in the same way as The Lawnmower Man, Needful Things and especially The Langoliers, which I can't recommend heartily enough as the kind of thing you always hoped for when picking up a random genre movie from the rental place on video tape a decade and a half ago.
Rated 03 Mar 2018
90
75th
Amazingly underestimated. Belongs among the finest King's adaptations, I don't hesitate to say it. Not really a horror, rather a survival thriller. Makes you want to read the book.
Rated 01 Aug 2020
49
46th
Have to agree with other reviewers that, while in the book the characters' backstories are important, they cripple the film adaptation with a glacially slow start. This could be remade into a lean, mean (i.e. book ending) 1 hour episode of a Stephen King anthology show, which I'm kind of expecting within five years of him dying.
Rated 09 Aug 2020
55
43rd
Entertaining, to-the-bones, objective, no-time-to-waste and well-shot (Jan de Bont) natural/survival horror whose main thing isn't really facing the rabid dog, but trying to reunite this broken family in small-town America. Don't know if this is entirely effective -- first section seems pretty lifeless to me -- but it kind of left me wanting for more.
Rated 23 Oct 2020
70
82nd
Is it the best King adaptation? Not really. Is it still pretty good? Yes. Anchored by Dee Wallace's great lead performance, this succeeds in spite of a rather unlikeable heroine & an offbeat pace. The opening scene is fantastic, the slow burn towards Cujo's transformation is well done, & the marital subplot- while a little out of place- is fine for what it is. The ending is rather abrupt & the slowness of it is noticeable, but all said this is a solid 80's classic that's worth seeing once.
Rated 06 Jan 2021
45
13th
What's worse than films with dogs? Films with monkeys? Hard choice. Movies with killer dogs have never been particularly good, and Cujo, despite being one of the first, does not stand out. Wallace is fine and the ending is passable, but it takes far too long to shift out of first gear and never moves beyond second. Teague's direction is purely functional too.
Rated 27 Feb 2021
90
43rd
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Rated 28 Nov 2021
75
28th
Good but limited. Dog is still scary tho
Rated 17 Mar 2022
66
34th
Cujo is a fun horror flick. The performing and effects are fine. The 80s cheese is present. If you're looking for a totally servicable King flick for a weekend movie night, you could do a lot worse.
Rated 08 May 2022
40
18th
St. Bernard's are the cuddliest looking dogs. However, throw some dirt and goop on them, and they look like hell dogs. I felt bad for Danny Pintauro because he's giving a great terrified kid performance, but he also feels too young to feel like he's acting. For some reason, this film has the worst looking posters on the internet. If you didn't know what this was, you'd think it was some Netflix trash no one has ever watched.
Rated 13 Aug 2023
83
73rd
Cujo estreava há 40 anos nos EUA. Nunca tinha me interessado a ver esse filme porque a premissa de um cão assassino me parecia demasiado tolinha, mas me surpreendi deveras com a tensão construída nesse filme. Bom, agora os humanos entendem a tensão vivida por gatos (ou coelhos e raposas) em relação à cães assassinos, né? YTS.

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