While Carrie is probably my favorite Stephen King story ever, I also find it to be terribly sad in addition to being terrifying. Every time I watch it I'm catapulted back to those high school days when kids were so outright cruel to each other. Then again, despite the sadness in Carrie's life, this is also the ultimate revenge fantasy — what victim of a vicious high school hierarchy wouldn't want to lock her tormentors in a gym and unleash the wrath of hell on them?
The movie follows the teenage Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek with the spookiest eyes in cinematic history) who can't seem to catch a break. At school, the other students ruthlessly poke fun at the socially awkward Carrie while at home her fanatically religious mother basically screams at her for constantly sinning. Soon, Carrie discovers that she has the ability to move objects with her mind which is at first confusing, and then pretty helpful.
At the school prom, however, things take a turn for the worse. She's nominated prom queen as a horrible prank and then is further humiliated by her classmates when they douse her in pigs' blood. The rest, as they say, is horror movie history.
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Margaret White: Witch. Got Satan's Power.
Carrie White: It has nothing to do with Satan, Mama. It's me. Me. If I concentrate hard enough, I can move things.
I love this movie, from the scene where they are throwing tampons at her in the locker room, to the split screen prom scene where Carrie is covered in blood, the white of her eyes showing, killing everyone in sight. The "REE, REE" as she shuts the doors and shutters scares me to this day!
1There's a really funny part in that movie when the bucket falls on the head of Carrie's prom date, and his '70s fro makes a ripple from the impact! I saw that movie when I was 13 and thought that part was hilarious!
But it is a pretty scary movie. For me the freakiest scenes involve Carrie's mother.
2Anyone like the remake that aired a few years ago? I've never seen the movie, but I have read the book.
3DIRTY PILLOWS!!!
4Carrie 2 the Rage Blew...it was awful
5Classic movie! I'm not really into horror movies, but anything written by Stephen King is golden. Carrie is one of the few movies that is almost as good as the book.
6Man, this movie scared the beejesus out of me when I was thirteen and on a sleepover. None of us got much sleep after watching Carrie.
7Loved the book, the movie was alright but the recent remake was just horrible!
8Plug it Up! Plug it Up!
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