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Cujo (1983)

★ 6.2 · 1,122 ratings on TMDB

Now, there's a new name for terror.

Cujo poster★ 6.2

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

DirectorLewis Teague
CastBilly Jayne, Christopher Stone, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Dee Wallace, Ed Lauter
GenresHorror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Cujo keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E6 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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