Christine

Arnie Cunningham is a nerdy, awkward high school senior in suburban California — perpetually picked on and held together largely by his friendship with the more confident Dennis. On a drive one day, Arnie spots a ruined 1958 Plymouth Fury — filthy, gutted, barely a car — and becomes instantly, irrationally fixated on it. Over Dennis and his parents' protests, he buys it from a menacing old man named LeBay, whose relationship with the car was already deeply wrong.

Arnie rents garage space and begins restoring Christine — and Christine begins restoring herself. The car repairs its own body panels, replacing shattered glass and crushed metal as though drawing on some internal will to exist. As the restoration progresses, Arnie changes in tandem: he drops his glasses, starts dressing differently, grows cold toward his friends, and begins dating Leigh, a beautiful new girl at school. His voice and demeanor increasingly echo LeBay's — something old is bleeding through.

Leigh nearly chokes to death in the car while alone with Arnie. The car does nothing to help her. Dennis and Leigh both begin to fear what Christine is — and what Arnie is becoming. A gang of bullies who previously vandalized Christine is hunted down and killed, the car repairing itself after each collision and bearing down on them in flames, unstoppable.

Dennis investigates and learns that LeBay's wife and daughter both died in Christine — the daughter from choking in the back seat, the wife from carbon monoxide. LeBay himself died shortly after selling the car to Arnie. The possession runs deep; LeBay's spirit has fused with the car, and Arnie has been its latest vessel.

In the climax, Dennis and Leigh use a bulldozer to destroy Christine in a wrecking yard, crushing the car beyond any possible restoration while Arnie — arriving to stop them — is killed in the wreckage, more car than person by the end. Christine is reduced to a crushed block of metal. The final shot lingers on that block, slowly, almost imperceptibly, beginning to move.