begob Three guys on a car journey in the frozen night sort out their homosexuality while pursued by a mysterious grunt motor.The IMDb ratings fooled me, so I have to take the pess. After 12 years people still praise this junk? First up - IT'S NOT A HORROR! Just a Hardy Boys melodrama, with a lame plot. I have a hard time understanding why people enjoy Christine - maybe it's a parochial American thing - but fair enough. But this story has no supernatural element at all, and can't even make sense of itself or its characters.Too tiresome to think much more about it. Put it this way - they introduce a character at the very end just to cover the plot hole that the car can't drive itself. And this poor innocent ends up ...Anyone voting this up is dumb.

jlthornb51 Film maker John Murlowski wrote the story that is the basis of this superb horror film and also directed it quite creatively indeed. The screenplay by Will Aldis is highlighted by crisp, clever dialog and a sensitively observed treatment of obsessive revenge. Randy Quaid stands out in an extraordinary cast, giving a performance that is both powerful and deeply moving. The fear of the unknown and sense of helplessness is beautifully captured as a group of young men race for their very lives across a frozen landscape where snow and ice are king. It is a desperate struggle against a mysterious foe and the elements. Both prove equally deadly. The ending has a shocking twist that will take audience's collective breaths away. A stunning film that will have you on the edge of your seat.

jt4logos I'm really sorry this movie had so much Sleaze (in the opening ten minutes, and in the language throughout) because the story, the premise, and the film-making itself were so outstanding. It should be a movie for all people who love movies, and not of necessity limited to those who really don't mind, or who actively delight in, Sleaze. A behind-the-scenes, left-to-the-intelligent-viewer's-imagination depiction of the sophomoric activity in this story would have made this a classic film. Duel is classic, this is not. (If you can't show it to grandmothers and junior high kids, it ain't classic.) That said, the casting and acting, the atmosphere and the terror so well done, and the interest sustained throughout so complete, I hope someday to see a remake with the Sleaze cut out and the language cleaned up. The screen writing was good; aside from the writer's inability to think up synonyms for "damn it", the conversation kept moving towards revealing the characters' inner selves and the changes their terrifying experiences were causing. The lighting was really impressive. Though the film took place entirely at night, and the sense of darkness and cold were maintained, the lighting made all that was happening, all emotions, very clear to the viewer: an actor's dream. This is another reason I wish the film had been Classic instead of Transient -- it is an actor's film. The actors made me care, made me listen, made me watch for their individual reactions. A fine film . . . . but.

matthew digioia Black Cadillac: Revenge In The Driver's Seat. Well put, well put. Sorry guys, I've gotta take the black beauty's side in this story, not the little red sloth. I'm not against little cars, i like the OLD vw bug, but, that aside, i guess i was actually routing for the "villian" in this story. And the vehicle, ha ha.That car, that right there is the single most beautiful machine to ever exist. It's tough as a tank, fast as a jet, and as attractive as Kiersten Warren. Damn, she's a babe! (Am I talking about the Caddy or KW? Well, a truth: not everything is black or white.)The setting: beautiful, the plot: beautiful, the car...perfect. And the movie's as close to it as any other.