One of the 1958 red Plymoth Furys used to portray Christine in the film.
Christine is a 1958 Red Plymouth Fury. She is a posessed car that mows down and kills the people who torment her owner, the dorky Arnie Cunningham.
Biography
In the book, Christine is a 1958 four-door Red Plymoth Fury that a high school dork named Arnie Cunningham purchases for $250 in 1978. It is a fancy car, with white brimmed tires, double headlights, and white trimmed rims, but it is also wrecked, and is in need of serious repair. Dennis, Arnie's Jock friend, does not like Christine, and advises him against purchasing it for a first car. But, Arnie buys it anyway, much to the dismay of his parents, and they get into a heated debate. Arnie stores it at Darnell's, a do-it-yourself garage and junkyard located outside of town. The ill-tempered owner, Will Darnell, distrusts both Arnie and Dennis, and is mean to them. Arnie fixes up Christine over time, and the car becomes his obsession. He starts driving it everywhere, and even gets Leigh Cabot to be his girlfriend, much to the dismay of Dennis. Arnie becomes humorless and arrogant, but also assertive and cruel. Christine is destroyed by Buddy Repperton and his gang, who want revenge for Buddy being expelled because Arnie told a teacher that Buddy threatened him with a switchblade. After Christine's destruction, Arnie angrily blames Leigh for it, and fights verbally and even physically with his parents. Arnie frantically attempts to fix the car again, but the car rebuilds itself in front of him, in a manner similar to a striptease. Christine and Arnie go after Repperton's gang, killing t
Christine on fire from the movie.
hem all one by one. At the end, Repperton himself is killed when Christine smashes through a gas station and blows it up. Christine chases Buddy while on fire and drives over him, leaving his flaming body in the middle of the country road. Christine pulls into Darnell's, and Darnell is suspicious. He grabs a gun and goes inside Christine. Christine crushes him with the seat. Finally, Dennis carves Darnell's Tonight into her hood and waits inside a septic tank truck named Bessie. He destroys Christine before she can rebuild herself and crushes her into a cube, but only after Arnie is killed in a highway accident with his mother. (In the movie, Arnie is killed with a shard of glass, and Christine is destroyed with a bulldozer) At the end of the story, Dennis and Leigh begin dating, but later go their seperate ways, and Dennis realizes that Christine is back, and killing all those responsible.
Origins
Nobody knows exactly where Christine came from; in the movie, it is suggested that Christine was bad from the start, because she crushes a man's hand with her hood and kills another after he drops a cigar ash on her seat, all while she was being built. In the book, it is suggested that she may be posessed by the ghosts of Roland LeBay's family; his daughter choked in the backseat, and his wife committed suicide inside her front seat. Either one suggests that she could have been bad to the bone even before those, and that she killed LeBay's daughter, rather than LeBay's family posessing the car.
What is known, however, is that she becomes extremely attached to her owners, and kills those who she sees as a threat to her relationship. She also makes her owners become obsessed with her, and kills anybody who may be hurting them.
Appearences
Christine is one of King's most popular creations, books, and movie adapations. She is seen in the book, the movie, and even referenced and seen in a couple other books and movies. She has also left a lasting impact on popular culture.