In Christine, Arnie is a nerdy high-schooler harangued at home and bullied at school, but he starts pushing back when he buys and restores a beat-up 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine. He falls for her stunning curves and wistful radio transmissions (all 1950s rhythm and blues and rock-n-roll), and her evil influence combines with pressures of the early manosphere to fuel Arnie with a violent rage that alienates or destroys everyone in his path.

Christine reunites John Carpenter with Alan Howarth, the co-composer for Escape from New York (1981), Halloween II and III (1981/82), and The Thing (1982); Harry Dean Stanton (Escape from New York) as the detective investigating a rash of hit-and-runs; Richard Kobritz, the executive producer of Someone’s Watching Me! (1978); and Roy Arbogast, the special effects artist who oversaw pyrotechnics for The Thing.

We’re also screening Maximum Overdrive (1986) on Saturday, July 25 at 11:30pm!