Cujo: How The Book’s Ending Is Different (& Darker) Cujo's ending on film is pretty harrowing, but on the page it's even worse. Unfortunately, a rabid bat changed his destiny for the worse, and by extension, the fate of Donna Trenton (played in the film by Dee Wallace) and her young son Tad (Danny Pintauro). Related: The 10 Best Killer Animal Movies, RankedĬujo isn't evil, and all he ever wanted to do was be a good dog, and please his master. In many ways, Cujo is also one of King's sadder stories, especially in the book, which actually features passages told from Cujo's point of view. Once rabies takes hold, the prognosis of anyone or anything affected is bleak. Bernards are large, powerful dogs, but thankfully, the breed as a whole tends to be gentle giants, although who raises them obviously plays a factor into their behavior.ĭogs also can indeed get rabies via a bite from another animal, and the rabies virus is truly terrifying, and could definitely render a once loving pooch into a violent, unpredictable creature. While King's work often involves a supernatural element, in Cujo's case, the scenario at the center is not at all impossible to imagine happening in real life. Cujo, Stephen King's tale of a dog made murderous by rabies, ends in a much different, darker way on the page than on the movie screen.
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