Christine Vs The Car: Which Car Deserves the Horror Crown? 

Let me put it this way: If you see "Christine" driving down the street, you'll go, "Wow, a Plymouth Fury just like the movie's, Awesome!" If you see "The Car", you'll go "I think I'll take the long route home".

When I was about 13, back in the mid-seventies, I was offered an old '58 Plymouth Hardtop with a 318 and a push-button auto for $700 Aussie dollars. I raced home and begged my father for a loan. But I was denied.

I saw The Car on TV as a kid and had trouble sleeping for weeks. I kept thinking it would drive through my bedroom. As an adult, I still find some scenes unnerving. The Car is most terrifying to me because it is just mindless evil with no back story. Christine is still a great movie and book.

Dude .... the moment when our protagonist realizes he's not alone in that garage and snaps around to find 'The Car' quietly parked behind him , still gives me the shivers . Just that scene makes it a classic . No remake could ever repeat it . 👍

I was really frightened as a kid for "The Car", and still am, but not that much. The way it honks, the way it looks and the things it does, it just scares me.

I'm old enough to have seen The Car in the theater. Then caught it on TV whenever I could. For me it's not about the story. The car just looks incredible.

I’d argue that Christine is more terrifying, because she’s not just a car that runs people over, but messes with the head of the person who “owns” her. There is a sadness with Artie’s fate, that not everything he became was evil, but that the obsession drove him beyond redemption.

I love them both. The car was sinister and evil. Vary sadistic feel, like when it chases the kid on the bike and sends him over the edge of the overpass. Where as Christine is protective and vengeful. Has an intoxicating effect on certain people. Christine gets my vote for her ability to rebuild herself even after being run over by a bull dozer or ran through a metal compactor 😁

honestly, the design of "the car" is awesome, i want one.

The Car definitely looks scarier but its more of an action thriller,where as Christine is a horror movie

I'll give it to Christine. The car and actors were great. That soundtrack was awesome! The Car definitely was a great one too.

Without hesitation I'd go with Christine, especially considering the fact there is a real-life Christine of sorts. An early '60s Dodge with an alleged body count of 14, it's a New England urban legend Stephen King must have heard numerous times while growing up in Maine, which must have played a part in him writing the novel. Bedtime Stories has a great video on it called "The Curse of the Golden Eagle" for those interested.

Excellent video as always from this channel! One minor point is that in the book "Christine", the odometer moving backwards is really heavily highlighted when Christine is being moved around and repairing herself, as far as I am aware from several discussions of the book it's not that she's actually repairing herself, but more that driving/moving her "turns back the clock" to when she was new again. If I recall correctly there was one paragraph in the book not long after Arnie buys her where it describes that her restoration appeared haphazard and random, but you can see how it may describe things being fixed "in order of decay" if you read it. It's still supernatural, just probably wouldn't work that well on film.

I was actually the lucky owner of a red Plymouth Fury {paid $300 for it from the original owner} just like Christine when I was 16 in 1982 a year before the movie came out & after that nobody would ride with me any more...lol! I loved hearing those dual quad 4 barrels open up when you floored it! Unfortunately in 1984 a drunk driver ran a red light & Tboned me & she wasnt able to pull herself together so off to the scrapyard it went ✌💖☮

This reminds me of another movie that didn't possess just a car, but everything with a motor in it, including electric ones: Maximum Overdrive! And a car possessed not by a demon, but by a revenge seeking ghost: The Wraith.

The Car is King 👑

There's just a certain charm to these films that keeps you coming back. Solid video mate.

Oooh... Great bar topic... My head says Christine but my heart says The Car. Gonna give it to The Car. It's the one I'll never get tired of watching. Great video!

Christine appearead in Spielberg's Ready Player One , one of the cars from the race scene, near the A-Team van

Between the two, it's definitely The Car. Although Christine is more famous and is a great, more haunted killer car, something about The Car is more terrifying and powerful. We never know where it came from, there's no driver, it has a semi truck horn and Nascar-like V8, and most of all, it's INDESTRUCTIBLE. All this makes it very horrifying and underrated as the predecessor killer car to Christine. The Car is the King in my book, with Christine being close second.

I watched ‘The Car’ last night and I really enjoyed it. The bit where he is in the garage and he turns round to see it parked there was a very creepy scene. You don’t get great scenes like that anymore in modern films. I think I prefer it to Christine overall but they are both classics.

The story, or lack thereof, left "The Car" with lots of room for both sequels and prequels. This is interesting timing as Hollywood had not caught the "let's make a sequel" bug in 1977. During the credits for the movie is some "extra" footage that was shot in what is fairly obviously an urban environment (I think it was LA) that, if you take it as meaning anything, could imply that the Car either survived or re-incarnated itself.

"The Car" seemed familiar. Turns out that in the were-car episode of Futurama, Bender transforms into the same car, only with a silver paint job, when he goes on his nightly rampages. Very funny in retrospect.

I have enjoyed both movies but, I'm partial to The Car. I was 14 & saw The Car on opening night - Friday, May 13, 1977. It was awesome. I was more fascinated with the physical & mechanical attributes of The Car which set the tone of how I built my first car - stance, powerplant, tires, etc.

Sure Christine is terrifying. But she had reasons behind her attacks. The Car was a true demon, it attacked whatever and was tough as hell. I'd be much more scared of The Car.

For me Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the most terrifying .

Both cars look fantastic. The Plymouth fury hides its sinister side more under that stunning fins and chrome skin , where as the Lincoln Continental or tye Car , just looks evil Maybe it the Car was made around the same time as Christine it would be a much tougher contest . I love both films lve got them both on DVD aswell as the film with Dennis Weaver in Duel , classic suspense horror films . I think Chritine is tte better film , but the Car , the Lincoln Continental was a much more evil..... ld love to see a film of a possessed or Demonic wrecking truck . I actually had a 1/64 model from a sketch l did made of a Wrecking truck called Ol' Blue , that becomes possesed after its owner is brutally murdered , and the wrecking truck seeks revenge ....

To me it's The Car hands down tinted windows and all. The windows were the key like no one could be seen inside and the demon coming out of the flames at the end.

The Car - Jaws on land. But was effective to me as a kid. Demon car that just looks scary and appears out in the mysterious desert town. Christine - not exactly as scary to me (saw it at the cinema upon release) but was cool and mysterious as well. The self-restoration scene was and remains super cool. But both movies have the victims run down the middle of the road when chased by a car bent on killing them. Even then it would make us laugh.

I like both but it would have to be Christine for me. Ever since I first seen Christine I have wanted a 58 Plymouth. I also like watching the sequences of her repairing herself and just the personality she has. I also just think Christine is the better movie. My Mom has a story of when her aunt took her and my aunt to go see it because they thought it was like Herbie😂

I first watched the car in 1980 on TV and I fell in love with it. I have the original wheels magazine print ad, the Aussie daybill poster and the 1:18 scale die cast model. Christine is a superb film and I have it on laserdisc and VHS to this day. Thanks for doing a video on these two great films. Jaws, duel and the car - forever universal films kin

I cannot pick just one when you have both my favorites competing against each other. I love them both equally. Be great to see both in a double feature together at a drive-in but which one do you air first?

"The Car" is definitely the most notorious horror mechanical monster. "Christine" gives a more psychological view of evil transformation on the driver and evil machine combined. That's why "Christine" is the most popular gorgeous (and sinister) classic car movie.

I never saw 'The Car', or at least, I don't remember seeing it. However, I read 'Christine', and saw the movie a few times. Ironically, I never made the connection to that '58 Plymouth that I had the option to buy back in the mid-seventies. On another note, a friend of mine in the late 70s owned a 1960 Chrysler Royal AP3. He raised and extended the rear quarter panel fins to give them a more Plymouth look. The Royals were Frankenstein cars based on the Plymouth P25.

THE CAR--- BY FAR!!!!

Christine all day long Both are awesome though 6:56 tr6 8:27 on the first karr episode on knight rider this is the scene they use for a second when karr jumps off the cliff

Saw both multiple times and if i have to be honest,they both share the top spot to me.Great movies both of them.Pointless to compare.

Christine (1958 Plymouth Fury) is a beautiful car but its not scary. The Car (1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III) is extremely scary and sinister looking. Even the sound of the engine will terrify you. So The Car deserves the crown 100%

Great video! I watched both movies, in the theater, when they came out. Christine was probably the better movie, but The Car is the car I would buy and drive around. So damned cool!

For about 30 years now I been trying to figure out hoe they did the SFX in 'Christine', where the Plymouth repairs itself. (I assume it's probably reversed film, of the fixed car being deformed. But I still don't know how they did the deforming) Edit- Hey! Well done tracking that info down. Ialways pictured cables, rather than hydraulics but... now I know. Good stuff.

OK now you guys are after my heart with this Video, my 2 favorite Car Horror movies, love your content. Great channel!!!!

[warning spoilers] for a movie made in 1977. The scene where Wade is working in his garage and then looks up feeling something isn't right before turning around to reveal the car is already behind him in his locked garage is actually surprisingly well done I thought. It's great because it subverts expectations. It's written as and clearly plays out as a "jump scare" moment, but it doesn't immediately do anything. It just sits there. It's almost as if the car is waiting and allowing Wade to take in the full gravity of the situation. Once it feels that Wade has fully had time to process what's going on It plays with him for a few moments blocking his escape. Once again it allows time for Wade to digest that it has no intention of letting him leave then it attacks. I also like the scene where we clearly know the car is somewhere in the immediate vicinity of the house. We can hear it. Then we can see it but know that she's safe in her living room. I honestly didn't expect what happened next during my first viewing. For horror movie hero, Wade acts mostly rationally regarding the threat. Ronnie Cox certainly does a serviceable job as the alcoholic deputy. Eddie, Littlesky adds a friendly but still somber tone to the movie as Chaz. And RJ Armstrong. He is clearly one of the movie's villains. He is portrayed as an abusive and violent man. He gets no comeuppance whatsoever. As a matter of fact, at the end he's one of the movie's heroes. It's not even commented on. Maybe having seen what he has he will change his ways but we don't know. The movie certainly takes no position on this. All in all, That's a pretty bleak little plot point that the movie doesn't even comment on. Like it's just a part of life. I don't know if they intended for that to happen, but it still fits 1970s horror or for that matter 1970s drama pretty well. Anyway, despite some of its cheese I like The Car.

I definitely have to go with Christine Definitely one of the best horror movies of all time I thought it was pretty cool using the car as a killer instead of a human being it's a lot more interesting that's for sure growing up around all the cars made it even better the 58 Fury is such a beautiful car that's for sure?

Amazing documentary by they way , beautifully done thank you

Def The Car..much cooler and a classy Lincoln..ya wanna be a psycho inna Lincoln.

the problem i had with the car movies is i found they try ot be edgy while christine literally has you believing someone is driving it i remembered the first time i watched christine in 2016 i thought that billy was the one killing then i saw her driving while he was no where near her and that put me on the edge of my seat like oh shit its actually possesed and yea Christine also shows how some people change when they get a car they love

You forget, Christine isn’t just horror in the sense of scares, but horror in the sense of watching your friend lose and forget himself and push you away for just a car. And you missed, Christine can regenerate. That means she’s more powerful than the car. However it does appear that the car is prone to targeting the innocent. But if Arnie had been alive much longer, there’s a chance he and Christine would start a rampage

I always loved the car. Of course Christine is more beautiful but the car were special in its own way

My top pick is the car, it had a menus about it and it looked evil, I loved it. It was different than any other horror film at the time, I still love that movie.

Great info ,love them both

Man this is no contest!!! The Car is way more spooky and menacing…. It still gives me chills to this day. Just like the truck in Duel….

Christine, grew up with it. Auntie in law has a Plymouth fury in Australia.. Still love watching it over the car..

Watched both movies as a kid. I was scared by The Car, I can't say that about the other movie.

Both of these deserves an award, but The Car is scarier than Christine in my opinion.

For me definitely the car! That black menacing look took the cake!

Easily, 'The Car'. That movie scared me as a child. The atmosphere and environment was a huge part of what made the movie scary. Isolation, the vast unknown with no escape, and not knowing when or where the protagonist would appear to eliminate another town victim, only to learn at the end the true nature of the vehicle. Christine wasn't scary at all. While it attempted to be a psychological thriller, it didn't quite make the connection for me. There was something primal about The Car. To actually feel the fear emanating from the characters as they were being stalked by the evil manifestation. It was tangible and almost plausible. Christine, not so much. Kinda campy to me.

Final Verdict Christine=Queen The Car=King

Horror Crown?? The Car, would be my choice, now both cars are killers but " the car" at the end we see that physical manifestation of the Demon with the mouth with fangs and fire spitting tongue. End of story.Christine we don't actually see the demon's actual physicality, although one could say that "Arnie" was transformed into a demon- like entity, but we never see the real demon possessing both Christine and Arnie simultaneously.Thank you great vid, great content

I'd go for Christine myself as I own one (although a 4dr hardtop). Although 1 really big downside of the car is it's small interior space. I'm not tall at all but I've got the front bench set all the way back and I still have too less legroom

One of the scariest things about The Car, isn't what you see, it's what you hear. Imagine you're driving down a loooooooooong stretch of road, and you haven't seen another car for an hour. Suddenly, waaaaaay off in the distance, so faint you can't even tell where it's coming from, you hear the horn from The Car. Now, The Car vs Christine, has to go to The Car. The Car can't be damaged. Christine can be destroyed and undo the damage, but she needs to back off and take a minute. If The Car won't stop the attack, Christine can't regenerate and there goes the fight.

I enjoyed both movies but the horror crown goes to The Car.

Really enjoyed this. And I have to say, I've never even heard of The Car. Bloody love Duel and Christine though so I will be watching The Car pronto! Thanks for bringing it up. Weird how the often under appreciated films end up as cult classics isn't it. Most of John Carpenter's films are like that, including his timeless gem The Thing 😊😉

I can't choose one or the other. I love them both.

I grew up on "the car" and had nightmares about it. There was just something about it to me was more scary and supernatural. It was like u weren't safe anywhere. In ur house. Ur garage, the mountains. The police station. No where. Lol

these are the hard driving questions that need answering, thank-you.

I seen the CAR at the movie theater back in the day when it first came out. I really enjoyed it. I too had seen CHRISTINE when it first came out. Which is my fave? I'll never tell.

It would have been terrifying if David drove Christine vs the Chevy he drove in Knight Rider 2000😁

Christine,even at the end of the film,the car started to take shape again,the trim straightened out!! So,its cruising around today..The other one is finished!

Thank you for this. Been wondering since the 80s.

I watched it as kid when I used to live in Brazil , the Brazilian cinema translated it to “ A máquina do diabo “ “ the devil’s machine “ this movie absolutely terrified me as a kid , I had nightmares, now it’s a absolutely classic! I love both but nothing can top The car in evil looks and sound , Barris was the movie car master , I meet George Barris in 2015 in Sydney car expo I gave him a drawn caricature of him driving the bat mobile and he was really nice to me and made me feel really good and he kept looking at the cartoon in the glass frame and saying I am really touched by the kindness of the Australian people thank you so much , man he was loved in Australia 🇦🇺 Barris also was the judge for the best cars on display at Car Expo and lots of Barris cars was at the show it was insanely awesome i took a plane to Sydney from South Australia cos I knew it was once of a lifetime chance to meet George Barris , and not long after that I found out he passed away !

Both are terrific movies! Taking into consideration everything; kills, looks, soundtrack, types of cars, storyline, etc, Christine wins all the way!

i watched both of these movies when i was younger, "the car" was first, but i found myself more interested in "Christine" both are equally great classic cars, but im drawn to the fury, more than the lincon, it may have to do with the score of the movies

My Dad had a 1973 Eldorado and the horn in that car sounded the same as the Cars horn !! It was actually 4 horns and it came from the factory that way !

great video!...as a young kid in the early 80s, i've always had a soft spot for the Nova Sterling GT and the Porsche 935 in "Condorman" (1981)...yes it's a cheesy Disney flick, but the car chase is awesome! :D

They're both great movies & badass cars,but the top spot for me belongs to ( The Car ),the first time I saw that movie I thought that Lincoln was very badass & cool 😎, especially with the big 460 engine & dual exhaust,I love it & the air horns made it sound like a rig or a train coming,if I had the money I would have someone find a Lincoln te same year with the same 460 engine in it & make it look & sound like the original car & the black paint to match with the tires & wheels

The Car only knew to honk but Christine liked music.

Both terrific motors. Impossible to say who is more evil out of the two. My preference would be leaning towards Christine. Such a great looking car. Not like todays cars all from the same mould from every manufacturer.

The Car will always be more scary than Christine for the fact it was indiscriminately malicious. It didn't care you were or what you did. It just wanted to kill or terrorize you. Plus The Car looks very intimidating. Christine only ever hurt those who got in her or Arnie's wa. If you didn't involve yourself with those people. You were very unlikely to even see it in action

I might add, a demon car movie that is fun is Crash (1977). A seriously low budget, straight to drive-in's, movie. But it has the coolest driverless '67 convertible Camaro. You can see that there is truly no one driving the car in several scenes.

I don't think Christine was an evil car by itself. Jealous? Yes. Revengeful? Definetely. But Christine didn't look to have 'kill everyone' goal. Anyway, you don't want to see that Plymouth Fury when it's in fury!

Christine, hands down. Better looking, classic, and elegant. The one that would give it a run for it's money would be . The goblin 👺 semi truck,from Maximum Overdrive. Since I was born in '76 these are my childhood , Iconic vehicles. The next would be either fall guy or Simon and Simon pickup trucks.🤷🏻‍♂️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Car, was ok. But not hell yeah I got to have it cool.

I'll throw in my two cents as to why The Car takes the lead . # 1, Everyone is enamored with the 'strong silent type' ! Sure when it honked it's horn it sounded like it was laughing as it enjoyed tormenting and killing it's victim , but that's it ! It didn't flip through the radio stations and all this to put you in mood to what it was thinking or feeling ! Once you heard that horn you knew , "it's your ass" ! "Less is more" & in order to preserve the mystique of the 'who what were how & why' of The Car , this works greatly ! # 2, The Car was not compromising & didn't have a relationship ! She didn't allow for anybody have a relationship with her ! There wasn't anything you could do to appease her , or to make her happy ( aside from being murdered by her . ) you couldn't worship her , you couldn't bribe her , you couldn't reason with her.......effectively , it was a sadistic Terminator ! And 'yes' as a kid in the early 80's I saw The Car and Carrie and I'm here to tell you that The Car scared to shit out of me 'and' kept my interest from beginning to end ! Even the music was fascinating , where as Carrie.......it was 'good' but as a little kid I lost my interest several times during the movie and now as an adult I think if I should go back and watch it I would be like , " get to the fucking point ! " Let's see some action here !!!

I love the image at the 5:00 mark, I need that for my movie room 😀

Always loved The Car! Christine was great, but of course book was better and I expected a little more. Got to see the actual car at Universal studios. How can I that t-shirt? I don't see it on website.

I was younger when I saw the car, terrifying to a little kid haha. Duel movie was super scary too.

Any Time I see "The Car" now I cant help but think of Bender turning into a "Were-Car" on Futurama

The Car was at Universal in an outside parking lot in the back lot until 1984 when they remodeled the back lot and rearranged everything. Then it disappeared. It was parked next to Columbos car. A few yards away between two sets sat the little flying saucer that Blair was building in secret from the movie The Thing. That also disappeared in 1984. Who knows where they are today. I bet the flying saucer was scrapped. That might have been the fate of The Car and Columbos car?? Who knows. My favorite is hard to call but I guess it has to be The Car. I just couldn't stand James Brolins girl friend in the movie and was so glad that The Car drove through the house and killed her. And it was a really good scene. Also, the horn is iconic. Christine is bad ass too.

From a Buick 8 will be coming soon also....I can't wait to see how bad it is. Or hopefully ....how good? Dare I wish?

The scariest of those two it is most definitely “the car” it just looked evil. Christine was evil but did not look the part

Nice, got both DVDs and the scale 1/18 die-cast models also.

I watched both of these movies way back on the local late night creature feature. I swear there was a like a solid month of nothing but evil vehicle movies being shown. I think "The Hearse" was far scarier in my youth, but it's been so long since I've seen any of these movies. I won't watch them again, I've foudn that movies I liked in my childhood were actually terrible and I don't want to ruin the memories I have of them.

I grew up with both movies in my life I'd say The Car because that horn sound was wicked

we all saw how Christine built. it was made in a factory and we saw some hints how it possessed meanwhile The Car just appeared out of nowhere with a killing spree i love Christine more thanks to great John Carpenter and his musics but mysteriousness of The Car makes me more scared. Christine seemed more reasonable while The Car is more like Michael Myers

Hands down: CHRISTINE wins!! A more 'debatable' comparison would have been between CHRISTINE and THE WRAITH (Charlie Sheen). Both had 'spirits' as their driving force, both killed and both looked cool as Hell !! And damn....both Chryslers

I will say this: you show me Christine, I might mistake her for any other Plymouth. There’s no mistaking the Car. I will always know what it is if I ever see it. That makes it better (or should I say, scarier), in my opinion. Not to mention, the Car is seen as indestructible, whereas Christine is seen damaged. Yes, she repairs herself, but the Car never deals with it until the end… and even then it’s implied to have survived.

My vote is for The Car. Christine had the advantage of nearly 10 years of cinematic progress. Even with that said, the dragon face in the flames at the end of The Car is still quite impressive. The only real criticism I have is that they sped up footage in certain scenes which looks silly.

In one of Stephen King's other stories, he explained more about Christine, about a haunted saw mill iirc it was about what happened if certain elements, blood, certain herbs etc, came in contact in the right order, would allow the demon inside to get more powerful Christine is an awesome film :) Better book though The Car is more terrifying though, and the car's look and air horn, wow!

The car is the king, look at It, It looks so serious

The Car wasn't possessed or driven by an entity but was itself a demon. Built for the movie using a Lincoln but deliberately modified to appear as unique and not meant to be seen as a hot-rod Lincoln but as unlike any other car because in the story it wasn't built, it was a demon who has taken the form a car and its appearance is supposed to reflect the visage of the beast's actual form. Christine was most certainly a Plymouth that was possessed by an unquiet spirit and as much as I loved that book and to me Christine is a FAR better story, The Car is not only demonstrably a stronger car, being much harder to deform but it's is an actual freaking demon. So put all your money on The Car to destroy Christine. Unless Christine hides on holy ground she's finished. Although I would think a Hellbound spirit possessing a car and a demon who is a car would probably be friends, fast and true.

I love both films. I think that's this weekend's viewing sorted...