icyjones' movie mayhem: #10-#13

John Carpenter's Christine (1983)

I enjoyed this one, but it wasn't that scary.
Stand out scenes are Christine fixing herself, and Christine running down the bully while on fire.
The main love interest is a hottie. Alexandra Paul also continues to be. She also has a twin sister. Bonus!
Harry Dean Stanton appears here. Love him and a Kentucky native.
Carpenter himself has said this movie wasn't that successful because it was hard to make a car scary.

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers
To quote Sheena Odenweller, "It's CHUD crazy!!!"
This one is a fun watch, especially the effects for the CHUDs
One CHUD has his neck grow like Henrietta in Evil Dead 2. Gets his head chopped off just like her as well.
Weird scene where a lady is taking a shower, the drain clogs, she goes to clear it, and then CHUD blood sprays her. She just continues to shower and cleans up. I would have been a little more disturbed.

The villain considers himself a man of God, who goes town to town, marries a widow, then kills her for her money. He also has LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles.
Robert Mitchum plays said villain. He does a great job. Very strong screen presence.
I really liked this one. The pacing is good, except for an extended sequence where the two main children are on the run down the river.
A woman in this movie is named Icey. That is awesome.
Interesting twist at the end with a mob of townspeople looks villainous.

Terry O'Quinn plays a man who is a master of making new identities to find the perfect family, but when the family he is in disappoints him, he kills them all.
So, we get to see Jill Schoelen's boobs in a shower scene at the end of the movie, and it is awesome, but she is supposed to be 16. Luckily she is 24 in real life.
Gore very quickly in this one. First scene.
I got really bummed about the death of the psychiatrist.
Interesting take on the slasher genre.