This story bears some similar themes to another Stephen King film, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (which, by the way, was based on one of his earlier short stories, TRUCKS, and which was remade more than twenty years later as a film by the same name as the original short story.) The main difference between MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and TRUCKS (both the short story and the 1997 remake) with the book and film CHRISTEN is that, in the stories about the trucks, lots of different machines came to murderous life, but otherwise stayed the same as they were before, meaning you could still destroy them just as easily. Blow a truck up, it stays blown up. Not so here. There's only one living automobile in this story, but it/she's virtually indestructible.
There's really not much I can say about the plot that hasn't been said already. I will say that, in all the dozens of films in which I've heard the song,"Bad To The Bone", here seems to be the best place to have it. While the songs in other films seems to refer to a hero who isn't afraid to get rough when he has to (TERMINATOR 2), or a kid with a mean-streak (PROBLEM CHILD 1&2, the PARENT TRAP remake), the song in this film refers to Christen, who really IS bad, and will kill anyone who gets in her way, without second thought. The song is played at the beginning and during the end credits, and the opening scene in the film is one of the coolest I've ever seen in a movie.
Lastly, I know this will never, ever happen, but here's a crossover that I always thought would be a funny idea: Christen Vs. Herbie, the Love Bug.
There's really not much I can say about the plot that hasn't been said already. I will say that, in all the dozens of films in which I've heard the song,"Bad To The Bone", here seems to be the best place to have it. While the songs in other films seems to refer to a hero who isn't afraid to get rough when he has to (TERMINATOR 2), or a kid with a mean-streak (PROBLEM CHILD 1&2, the PARENT TRAP remake), the song in this film refers to Christen, who really IS bad, and will kill anyone who gets in her way, without second thought. The song is played at the beginning and during the end credits, and the opening scene in the film is one of the coolest I've ever seen in a movie.
Lastly, I know this will never, ever happen, but here's a crossover that I always thought would be a funny idea: Christen Vs. Herbie, the Love Bug.