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Summary: A Great Stephen King Movie As Always
Review: "Carrie" is a monumental film released in 1976 that was so fresh for its time that many rushed to the theater to see it. This is based on the first novel published by Stephen King in 1974. When it was released, no other author had touched such territories in a such unique style. The unusual theme kept people curious to what he would write next. He immediately became a celebrity. Such uniqueness remains fresh today. "Carrie" is also the first film adaptation of one of his novels. It earned two Oscar nominations: Best Actress (Sissy Spacek) and Best Supporting Actress (Piper Laurie).This brilliant plot of a high school student, Carrie White, continues growing more interesting moment after moment. The mystery and the suspense builds as Carrie slowly discovers and understands her supernatural powers. Once she learns that it has a name, telekenesis, they begin growning more destructively. However, the emotional aspect remains present, namely through the bullying and being emotionally tortured by her abusive religious mother. The chain of events keep audiences watching closely up to the chilling conclusion. The haunting conclusion has since become famous like the shower scene in "Psycho" (1960). Her rampage has since been imitated by several films, but none have matched the intensity of "Carrie". Such tremendous film quality goes beyond Carrie's humilating moment of having pig's blood dumped on her by some bully pranksters during her senior prom. The physical surroundings and the performance enhance the eerie theme. The house decorations enhance the good vs. evil aspect, going beyond the multiple crosses. They give the supernatural plot portions a deeper horror feel. Though all the actors performed their roles well, Spacek and Laurie stand out. Spacek expresses her tortures splendidly, giving audiences the powerful aspect. This is the film that placed her in much higher acting territory. Laurie's performance alone made the telekenesis theme more scary. "Carrie" is a great film for those looking for a great horror classic. It's sure to please audiences for many more years. However, it's sequel "The Rage: Carrie 2", not based on a Stephen King novel, is not as great as the original though worth watching once.
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Summary: They're all gonna laugh at you!
Review: "Carrie" is one heck of a movie. It's horror and drama all wrapped up in one. Sissy Spacek plays the timid Carrie White, a girl who is tormented by her classmates, and abused by her religious fanatic mother, Margaret (Piper Laurie). No one likes her, except for her gym teacher Miss Collins (Betty Buckley), but after a terrible prank in the girls locker room, one of the pranksters, Sue Snell (Amy Irving) feels sorry for what she did and asks her popular football player jock boyfriend Tommy (William Katt) to ask Carrie to the prom. He agrees and for once, the audience is happy for Carrie, seeing she is having a great time at the prom, but the evil Chris Hargenson (Nancy Allen) decides to pull a prank on Carrie that proves all too deadly. This film is fantastic. It is a cross between drama (the first half) and complete horror (the second half). The weird thing is, you really do feel sorry for Carrie! The way she is tormented by her classmates and her mother is awful, but the viewer knows about her new "powers" and she really makes use of them during that prom! By the way, in case anyone is confused by this, Carrie was imagining her classmates laughing at her, they really weren't. Based on the novel by Stephen King, it spawned numerous imitations and was followed by a sequel 23 years later.
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Summary: I can see your dirty pillows, everyone will.
Review: "They're called breasts mama, every woman has em". This film is not only filled with great lines but it is scary in a mental sort of way and satirical to boot. This DVD is what DVD should be, not bare-boned but full of great making of stuff. The only negative is I truly wanted to see the deleted scene of Carrie as a little girl and the stone storm.
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Summary: Long live "Carrie"
Review: "Carrie" and "American Graffiti" emerged at almost the same time; films that depictued all-American High School life in the 70s. However, there was obviously one difference: no one in "American" whacked out and killed her senior class. "Carrie" is an excellent, shocking, and evocative tale of high school life gone awry (think "She's All That" with a blood bath). While "Carrie" is bloody, violent, and almost a warning of the carnage that would come 2 decades later, it is unforgettable: from Carrie's traumatic shower-scene to the prom-turned orgy of destruction. Years from now, my generation will find the cruel, bitter "Carrie" to be a much more accurate potrayal of high school than "American Graffiti" ever was.
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Summary: A sharp dose of sensuality and scares, De Palma style
Review: "Carrie" gets the royal treatment here: great print, lots of extras. Especially recommended to those who have seen only the edited network-TV version of this classic. Wait'll you see the punch this original cut packs in terms of adult content and scares. Say what you want about De Palma, but the man is daring and refuses to bore his audience.
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Summary: Great Horror Movie!!!!
Review: "Carrie" is a great horror movie to see. I loved Sissy Spacek as "Carrie White". She is a great actress and it is proven in this movie. If you haven't seen it, you must. It is a old movie that never loses the excitement and scary feeling you get from watching it over and over. A very good movie and a must see!!!
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Summary: A Good Film with Excellent Performances
Review: "Carrie" is Brian DePalma's best film, hands down. Add to that a haunting musical score, good special effects, and a good script. Still, you needed top-flight performances from the Actors and "Carrie" delivers. Piper Laurie is superb as the demented, fanatical Margaret White - a career making performace that should have won her an Oscar. But even she is overshadowed by the brilliant Sissy Spacek, in the title role. As Carrie White, Spacek demonstrates the necessary fear, pain, and anger of being the school outcast. You'll applaud her vengence at the Prom as she does away with her awful classmates. Her performance garnered her an Oscar nomination that most now agree should have resulted in her victory as Best Actress. Unfortunately, she lost to Faye Dunaway (of all people) who did yet another turn of her Mommie Dearest schtick in "Network." But there would be justice: in 1981 Spacek would win Best Actress for "Coal Miner's Daughter," while Dunaway trashed her career playing Joan Crawford.
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Summary: Great Value
Review: "Carrie" is definitely one of the best DVDs I own in terms of value. Rarely do you find a DVD at this price with great extras, picture, and sound, but "Carrie" definitely succeeds in this department. The film is both entertaining and disturbing. Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie received well-deserved Oscar nominations for their excellent performances. Brian De Palma achieves excellent direction en route to one of the most memorable climaxes in cinema history. The score compliments the film well, although some of the 70's music is rather cheesy at times. Overall, a great, entertaining movie on a great DVD.
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Summary: An exceptional horror film
Review: "Carrie" is not your conventional horror film. First off, the average viewer would not find this film very frightening at all. Second of all, "Carrie" has a lot of qualities that are completely absent from most horror films, such as poignancy and a believable story. Sissy Spacek delivers a heart-breaking performance as the title character, Carrie White. A shy and sexually repressed misfit who also possesses mysterious psychic powers. Brian De Palma`s breakthrough hit is a film that puts teenagers in a bad light, as it displays them, especially the girls, as malicious and vengeful beings. Although De Palma does an excellent job focusing on Carrie`s difficult life, showing the torment she has to endure, from both her cruel classmates and her psychotic mother. It will surely make the viewer feel sympathy towards her, something that is rare in a film of this genre. De Palma also uses his famous camera tricks, creating a mood that is both depressing and stylish. "Carrie" is famous for it`s prom scene climax, but it is the resolution after that is truly disturbing. There are also few "shockers" in this film that will be able to please the people who want some pure terror. But for others, "Carrie" will be remembered mostly for it`s tragic and haunting coming-of-age story that makes this film special.
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Summary: They're all gonna laugh at you!
Review: "Carrie" is one heck of a movie. It's horror and drama all wrapped up in one. Sissy Spacek plays the timid Carrie White, a girl who is tormented by her classmates, and abused by her religious fanatic mother, Margaret (Piper Laurie). No one likes her, except for her gym teacher Miss Collins (Betty Buckley), but after a terrible prank in the girls locker room, one of the pranksters, Sue Snell (Amy Irving) feels sorry for what she did and asks her popular football player jock boyfriend Tommy (William Katt) to ask Carrie to the prom. He agrees and for once, the audience is happy for Carrie, seeing she is having a great time at the prom, but the evil Chris Hargenson (Nancy Allen) decides to pull a prank on Carrie that proves all too deadly. This film is fantastic. It is a cross between drama (the first half) and complete horror (the second half). The weird thing is, you really do feel sorry for Carrie! The way she is tormented by her classmates and her mother is awful, but the viewer knows about her new "powers" and she really makes use of them during that prom! By the way, in case anyone is confused by this, Carrie was imagining her classmates laughing at her, they really weren't. Based on the novel by Stephen King, it spawned numerous imitations and was followed by a sequel 23 years later.
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