ive been looking for this movie and i think that this might be it BUT there are no pictures to let me know for sure. Does the little girl in this have curly hair? Does anyone have anything to let me know for sure that this is the movie im lookin for. I saw the "tap shoes" remark on the review for this i thought that this was the film. Can anyone help me? Thanks
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The little girl had brown hair that was sort of like Nellie Olson's from "Little House on the Prairie", springy curly. Some other identifying characteristics:
She gets pissed at a blond boy (Chad Allen) because he won the Penmanship Medal and she felt as though it was rightfully hers. Psychotic glaring ensues.
Also, the apartment maintenance guy finds out that something is amiss and teases her, causing even more psychotic glaring. There are flashback scenes that are, in my own opinion, the scariest scenes of the movie. The scenes show a large woman walking through a cornfield hollering "CHRISTINE!!!" Another identifying clue: the little girl plays that eery song on the piano throughout the movie. This movie was shown on tv in the mid 80's.
Sounds like a compelling version of the movie. I can see the original over and over, it is that good!!!
shareI'll admit I tuned into it out of curiosity at first.
But right off the bat, when they changed doughy, plump Emery and Monica's relationship from brother and sister in the original, to buff, horny, married, fitness - minded couple in this one, I just went "ick".
Those two characters were embedded as brother and sister in my mind from the original story, and I believe the book too, so ewwwww.
I also didn't like the way they made LeRoy into some sort of misfit half- brained pedophile. Right at the beginning when Rachel is waiting for the bus and he caresses her leg --- again, ewwwwww!
Having him do that just wrecked it; as the original LeRoy was just some annoying, half brained dork who, with an odd twist of random intelligent ability could see through the girl's act and didn't like her. Carradine's character is just way too smarmy, which left me practically cheering when his little porn hut out back got burned down with him in it.
The original movie was the best version, this remake is so so, but the ending plays closer to the book.
I did`nt like the changes in Monica`s and Emory`s relationship either. I also disliked Blair Brown in this. She just looked out the window an awful lot, and seemed tired and listless. While I liked Christine`s moments of childhood flashbacks to the cornfields and her mother calling her, and all of that, I think it was more horrific in the 1950`s version, when Nancy Kelly suddenly realized who she was, and what her real mother was! Sometimes you don`t need the visuals to get the effect!
Maybe it`s just that I enjoyed the first film so much more, and I highly reccomend it to anyone who has`nt seen it.
As for David Carradine as Leroy....Sorry, but I thought he was the most interesting character in this whole pile of nonesense that they RE-MADE! Since they felt that they had to bring this story into the 80`s,(that explains the stupid atheletic outfits on Monica and Emory, LOL) They made him even sleezyer than what he was in the original...In the 1950`s version, Leroy DID wonder how Mrs. Pemark was going to do with her soldier husband away....
David Carradine was great with what they gave to him. It`s a shame that the rest of this was`nt better!
I gotta admit I loved the original but ALSO loved this as well. Can you imagine what Rachel would be like as a teenager???
shareIn addition to LeRoy caressing Rachel's leg, he made comments of seeing Rachel's underwear while she was waiting for the bus. It appeared obvious to me what was on his mind. The girl also accused LeRoy of spying on her mother when the mother was naked. Then, possibly to get even, she does the same thing, spying on LeRoy while he was inside his service shed. She undoubtedly saw the Playboy pin-up posters on the walls. He was shown drinking liquor. Maybe she observed him undressed or worse? Later, when LeRoy was confronted by Rachel about her "missing" shoes, she spies on him again inside the shed and burns it down, incinerating him.
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