A Mad Rabid Dog

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If only Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King had met. They were both great at making people scared of things that were actually ordinary. A film collaboration between them would have probably actually scared people to death. Unfortunately, they never got to meet. In 1983 a film was adapted from the Stephen King novel "Cujo." The film took a fluffy, large Saint Bernard and made him into a crazy, rabid killer. It is the perfect cringeworthy and on-the-edge thriller for Halloween. It tells the story of how a family went away from their home and did not know that their Saint Bernard Cujo had been bitten by a wild animal and had turned rabid. The dog was quite out of its mind when a young mother, Donna Trenton, played by Dee Wallace, took a ride out to the home of the rabid dog along with her six-year-old son, Tad, hoping the owner of the place would be able to fix her car. She and her son get trapped in their car, which won’t start because Cujo will attack them at any chance he gets. Since her husband was away on a business trip, he only gets to the farm looking for his wife and son three days later, during which time they have been terrorized by the rabid dog. Personally, I think that Danny Pintauro at the age of 6 playing this terrifying role deserved an Oscar for supporting actor because at that age I would have been surprised if he did not have nightmares from this filming. He went on to play in the TV comedy “Who’s the Boss," and today he is 50. A great film for the spooky season, but don’t watch it if you have a pet Saint Bernard. https://youtu.be/Dyq95M3difY?si=s7CFAYpbVrpR5lM-