The 12 Days of Christine resembled an arthouse film. From the beginning of the episode, there are clues to the content of the closing scenes, including the sound of a heartbeat, sounds associated with cars, and blue flashing lights. There are also a number of allusions to horror films; Fung is referred to as "the grudge", the Stranger's appearance evokes "Don't Look Now" and the throwing of eggs may be associated with "Ghostbusters". The name "Christine", too, can be seen as a reference to Stephen King's "Christine". For Chris Bennion, writing in "The Independent", the events of "The 12 Days of Christine" are a life
Christine Leunens Christine Leunens Christine Leunens is a New Zealand-Belgian novelist. She is the author of "Primordial Soup", "Caging Skies" and "A Can of Sunshine", which have been translated in over fifteen languages. "Caging Skies" has been adapted for film by director Taika Waititi, under the name "Jojo Rabbit". Christine Leunens was born in Hartford, Connecticut on 29 December 1964, the daughter of an Italian mother and a Belgian father, and the grand-daughter of Flemish artist Guillaume Leunens, whose years in a German labour camp in WWII would afterwards influence his abstract metal works. As a young child she travelled between Belgium