Christine

So, whilst Christine had everything, on paper, to be nothing more than a ‘commissioned film’ dutifully executed by a Carpenter whose reputation was on the wane, the considerable creative freedom granted to the director by Stephen King and screenwriter Bill Phillips ultimately allowed him to make the story his own and turn it into one of the most defining works of his filmography. Consequently, Carpenter, alongside Phillips, campaigned to discard one of the cornerstones of Stephen King’s novel – removing the malevolent presence of the car’s previous owner’s ghost who, in the book, haunts the young hero from the back seat of the Plymouth and manipulates him into committing murderous acts – in order to refocus the narrative entirely on the car itself. Thus, from being a pretext and a tool used by a demonic entity to carry out its misdeeds, Christine becomes the entity itself."" (Joris Laquittant; faispasgenre.com)