There is a great 360 degree dizzying shot of the inside of the Pinto after Donna has first been attacked by Cujo. The car is the reason they become stranded and does absolutely nothing to alleviate their situation, as it becomes an oven baking them in the heat and increasingly smaller and more uncomfortable. Often known for being pretty much the worst car ever made, it is also gloriously immortalized as Donna and Tad's other captor in Cujo. Plus, his being brought back from the brink of death sort of becomes the redemptive factor for Donna and Vic's relationship. She might have given up or done something stupid a lot sooner if she didn't have her son to think about. It is his acting that sells most of the scenes in the car and he is perhaps the catalyst for Donna's actions. When he's all gaunt and pale-looking and crouched in the back of the Pinto screaming his head off while Cujo attacks his mother? Forget about it.
When I see a child acting as real and amazing as little Danny does in Cujo, I'm of the mind that maybe kids make better actors than adults overall. Hopefully it also makes you feel a little sorry for Cujo, as well, because he is very much the victim of the story along with being the villain.Ī word about Danny Pintauro as Tad Trenton.
The little movements that they got the dog to do totally portrayed the progression of the rabies infection. I actually love the earlier scenes where Cujo is just beginning to feel his sickness and you can tell that it is really hurting him. But then I guess the biggest question of all is why didn't Donna call Joe Camber to make sure he'd be at his house before she took that piece of car way out there in the first place? So the prolonged setup here in the movie is important both story-wise and in building suspense. Otherwise, you'd have people saying "Well why didn't they do this." all through the movie. We have to know about Vic's also going out of town and Donna's extramarital affair so that Vic thinks there's another possible reason for Donna's absence when he comes back home.Īs the book mentions several times, there are a lot of factors that come into play that make this unique situation possible. We have to know about Charity wanting to get her and her son away from Joe for a while so that no one knew something was wrong with Cujo until it was too late. We have to know that Joe Camber was planning to go out of town and stopped his mail. This setup is necessary though to make the situation seem realistic and believable.
Watching the movie again, there is a long setup until we get to the Camber house and all hell breaks loose with Cujo and poor Donna and Tad in the middle of it.
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