The Film: Carpenter and Stephen King would seem to be a match made in heaven (or maybe hell) but Carpenter has said that he mostly made it because that's all he was offered.

Still, the two were good friends and the tale of a nerd who buys and restores an odd, evil classic car still resonates, standing up as one of the better King-based films.
 
Carpenter Chats: "Christine wasn't a particularly scary movie; it wasn't supposed to be.

"The book is about a kid who's haunted by the ghost of this dead man. There's a rotting corpse in the back seat of this car.

If I wanted to scare you, I would have had the rotting corpse fall on the actor."

Remade? Like a possessed project, it has tried to worm its way back on screen in various forms, but so far nothing has made it out of development.