Christine 4K Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.5
Audio		4.5
Extras		3.0
Overall		4.0

Christine 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Sony has released John Carpenter's Horror film Christine, based on the classic Stephen King novel, to the UHD format. The film is available in wide release packaging as well as this Best Buy 'Project Pop Art' exclusive SteelBook. On-disc content is identical to the wide release. See the 'Special Features and Extras' tab below for more on the SteelBook.

Christine 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

For a full UHD video review, please click here.

Christine 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

For a full UHD audio review, please click here.

Christine 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Christine's SteelBook is...interesting. It hails from the "Project Pop Art" line at Best Buy and offers a beautifully rendered front side, depicting the film's title at the top and the title car, ready to chomp down, prominently displayed in rather low light and against a dark red/black background. Below, filling the front cover's bottom-third portion, is a fun body of text that aims to sell the car's "features:" it "kills the competition" and features a "self-healing V8 engine." The whole front cover is essentially a vintage newspaper or magazine car advertisement, which is a very novel and welcome approach for a classic movie receiving not only an updated home video presentation but collectible packaging meant to offer something unique.

And then there's the rest of the package. Minimalism is often a good thing -- see the SteelBook for The Nightmare Before Christmas -- but Christine's SteelBook takes "minimalism" to the extreme. The rear panel is a blank slate, literally, carrying over the light gray newsprint-type color background that backed the front text. All that appears on the rear side is the artist signature on the bottom right. The spine offers the same color, with the film's title in bold, black, block letters in the middle and a Sony Pictures logo at the bottom. Inside, the Movies Anywhere digital code is tucked underneath the left side tabs while the Blu-ray and UHD discs are housed on the right, staggered-stacked. The inner print is simply a metallic red color that approximates Christine's factory fresh coat of paint.

It's a nice SteelBook. The front side certainly overrides any flaws, including the blank space rear cover which would have looked nice with, maybe, a unique hand-drawn rendering of several of the film's main characters. The red color inner print is actually very nice and simple. One could imagine it being Christine's color, the blood she spills, or both. An opportunity for a "real" image would have been the car's interior sprawled out along both sides.

For full UHD supplemental content coverage, please click here.

Christine 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Christine's SteelBook nails the front cover, does nothing with the rear, and offers a nicely minimalist red inner print. The UHD picture and sound are terrific. Very highly recommended.