We spoke with Chloë Moretz at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night. She talked about her upcoming movies Kick Ass 2 and Carrie — and told us that she is best friends with Brad Pitt!
Though we'd seen a brief glimpse of the blood-covered title character of Carrie a few months ago, today we get a full trailer for the remake of the 1970s horror classic. Chloë Moretz stars as the shy high schooler with telekinetic powers, while Julianne Moore plays her mother, a strictly religious woman who deals with Carrie's powers by locking her in a closet, screaming. When Carrie's cruel classmates play a prank on her at the prom, Carrie uses her skills to get her revenge on everyone.
The new Carrie looks like it's going to be every bit as chilling as the original, but with modern touches (all the kids now have cell phones to document their bullying of Carrie) and updated special effects. I'm happy to see the inclusion of famous scenes (the tampon-throwing torture) and lines ("They're all gonna laugh at you"), but I'm most struck by how terrifying Moore is — and she doesn't even have any special powers. Carrie comes out Oct. 18, and you can watch the trailer after the jump.
"She wasn't some monster, she was just a girl," one woman claims in a voice-over in the first teaser for the remake of Carrie. That sentiment isn't exactly backed up by the images we see. The footage opens with a pan of the town that Carrie (Chloë Moretz) destroys on her prom night. The gym is aflame, as is almost everything in her path, leading up to Carrie standing hunched over, covered in blood. Several people are heard reflecting on the aftermath of Carrie's breakdown in which the unpopular girl, tormented for years by her religious zealot of a mother (Julianne Moore), kills most of her high school following a cruel prank.
Many pop culture fiends already know the story, as it was first a Stephen King novel, which Brian De Palma turned into an iconic horror film in 1976. I do love Moretz for the lead, and the music that plays at the end of the trailer — "insane . . . insane" — is already haunting me. Looks like we're in for quite the remake come March 15; until then, you can watch the trailer after the jump.
The Carrie remake starring Chloe Moretz is due to hit theaters next March, and Entertainment Weekly has the first look at the young actress in character. Moretz is in Carrie's most famous pose — the postprom, pig-blood-covered-dress look. It's pretty terrifying and also kind of exciting — as is the other movie still here, of Julianne Moore as Carrie's crazypants mother. Take a look now.
A remake of the 1970s horror film Carrie is coming, with Chloe Moretz in the titular role of the tortured high schooler turned telekinetic teen. Even though I'm not a huge horror fan, I still consider Carrie to be a classic — and a movie that doesn't need any updating. Still, the reboot is on its way, and while I'm curious to see how it will translate 36 years later, I have some concerns — check them out below.
This video is so amazing I'm almost hyperventilating from its genius. It takes an infamous episode from The Brady Bunch featuring poor Jan wearing a hideous wig and mashes it up with Brian De Palma's '70s horror masterpiece Carrie — complete with his signature split-screen shots. Two great tastes that taste great together!
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.
