Carrie (Special Edition)

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Summary: Creepy
Review: Despite what one review says, this was not Sissy Spacek's debut, her first movie, I believe, was "Prime Cut" and her first starring role was with Martin Sheen in "Badlands". She not only appeared nude in "Prime Cut" but Playboy had a nice set of photos from the movie showing Sissy in the all-together. Surprising how many of her movies contain her in nude scenes, considering how petite and shy her characters usually are. For such a petite little gal, she certainly has a beautiful pair of "pillows" as her crazy mother in "Carrie" calls them.

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Summary: Sad horror tale with emotional performances.
Review: Sunday, February 20, 2005 / 5 of 5 / Sad horror tale with emotional performances.
Like the Shining's Jack N. looking through the ax-broken door and saying "Here's Johnny", Carrie's pig-blood spattered wide eye stare is an enduring image of modern horror films. It had been a while since I'd seen it but watching it again, I'm struck with just how sad the story is. Rarely do I feel such pathos towards anything in the horror genre but Carrie as played by Sissy Spacek cuts such an emotionally stunted, afraid, and vulnerable figure one can't help but be drawn in. There are lots of cameos by future stars including Travolta, Nancy Allen, and amusingly, Miami Vice's Larry `Switek' Talbot. Tormented as a mousy outsider, Carrie, the daughter of a religious nut case, also possesses latent telekinetic powers. These powers explode outward during periods of emotional stress and/or trauma. When Carrie is asked to the prom by a popular beau hunk, whose girlfriend is trying to do Carrie a favor, she eventually, meekly, accepts. She begins her transformation into a princess as personal esteem creeps into her gradually until she's blooming. At this pinnacle of self worth, Carrie ascends to the thrown as prom queen along with her king. Sadly, savagely, it ends as Nancy Allen drops the bomb on her. Carrie lashes out indiscriminately and wreaks havoc on the school, town, and eventually her abusive mother and herself. Carrie stands the test of time as a film and a warning about how abuse can lead to all encompassing rage.

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Summary: SCARY CARRIE!!!
Review: This is one of the most SCARIEST movies I have ever seen,and
I NEVER get scared during scary movies and I mostly just fall
asleep,but this time Carrie woke me up and scared me right out
of my seat.The story is based on one of Stephen King's frighting
novels and Stephen King is the MASTER of HORROR.Carrie(Sissy Spacek)is a sad and lonely teenager who has no friends,her mother is insane and all the girls always treat her like trash
and the only one who cares for her is Miss Collins(Betty Buckley).Miss Collins helps Carrie by punishing the girls who
were teasing Carrie and throwing things at her,just for having
alittle problem.Then one of the girls ask their boyfriend to ask
Carrie to the prom and not knowing why,Carrie said yes,BUT one
girl who was hurting Carrie the most has other plans in mine and
that's all I'm going to tell you befor I ruin the movie for you!

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Summary: A very troubled teenager.
Review: Carrie is a very interesting film. Sissy Spacek did a great job playing Carrie White who is a social outcast and gets picked on by everyone at school, but then things start to change when she becomes friends with a girl at school after she felt sorry for her for being mean to her with the other girls in the shower room. What Carrie doesn't realise is that she just had her period which is what her crazy mother thinks of as being a sin and then locks her in a loset and tells her to pray and asks for god's forgivness.
Carrie then realises that she has telekinetic powers and is able to move objects with her mind. As the school prom arrives the next day her friend played by Amy Irving decides to do something nice to her by letting her boyfriend go out with Carrie but the gym teacher doesn't think its a good idea but then changes her mind and then encourages Carrie to go to the prom.
Soon it becomes interesting when at the prom the goodlooking blond who is Carries bully decides to play a mean prank on her, big mistake as she will soon have to pay for her life as well as the other students and teachers at the prom. Brian Depalma became more sucessful after this film and its not hard to see why because the film builds up alot of tension especialy at the final part at the prom, although I expected the films climaxe to be a bit more bloody but I think the film was pretty good.

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Summary: Dirty Pillows and Prom
Review: Carrie is a film that is considered one of the great classics in the horror genre. Originally a novel written by Stephen King, this movie gives you the opportunity to second-guess letting your daughter go to the prom.

Carrie White (Spacek) is a homely teenage girl who has trouble making friends, partly because her mother (Laurie) is the town bible-thumper. The extremely graphic shower scene, in which Carrie actually starts her female cycle, is nothing less than outstanding, as far as horror is concerned. Since her mother believes that Carrie starting her period is something evil, this brings about the first chastisement we see between Mother White and Carrie.

Sue Snell (Irving) portrays a teenage peer who, in the shower scene, begins teasing Carrie. Later in the movie, she sees the error of her ways and becomes a friend to Carrie, who spares her life in the end.

Carrie's telekinetic powers produce many surprises throughout the course of the movie. Mother White's crucifixion is unbelievably well deserved, in my opinion. Many scenes in this movie are unforgettable and brilliant. Breasts are "dirty pillows" and let us not forget the ever-popular prom scene.

I was afraid to go to sleep afterward and found myself watching silly children's cartoons to keep the visions of blood spattering and murder out of my dreams.


Rating:
Summary: A minor fix
Review: Carrie is not only telekinetic, she also Pyrokinetic. There is a huge difference.
This film has been a long time favorite of mine since I was little. I read the book from my mothers collection when I was all of 10 or 11. The movie surpassed my expectations.

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Summary: They don't make them like this anymore...
Review: I read Stephen King's "Carrie" at a young age, when I was 13, and not surprisingly, it freaked me out. Now I saw the movie for the first time at 32. Brian De Palma's credit lies in being able to make the film as breathtakingly engrossing as I felt when i was reading the book. Tastes develop, and something i liked at 13 is not likely to impress much in my early 30s, but with "Carrie" the movie I felt like i was revisiting the book, and felt all the chills again. But the film, or the book for that matter, is not just about chill factor. Issues like teenage angst, upbringing, peer pressure and the need to fit in are touched upon in the process, without losing sight of the fact that this is a "horror movie". We are left thinking does Carrie White really deserve to burn in hell, as the graffiti on the vacant plot notice says? In my book she doesn't. Contrast the families of Carrie and Sue Snell. Carrie's mother is a fundamentalist freak who calls breasts 'dirty pillows' and thinks the natural processes of growing up are sinfull. No wonder then that her daughter is a social misfit. Sue Snell's family, by contrast, is happy American suburbia. Although Sue initially takes part in tormenting Carrie, she quickly makes amends and is redeemed. In the end, she is the only survivor in the horrible climax, which is somewhat cheesily done (by today's standards) in split screen (i am told that was a common technique in 70s movies). But memorable scenes abound, the opening shower sequence, the silenced bloodbath scene with just the sound of blood dripping from the bucket, Carrie's mother knifed to the walls in a crucifix form, but my favourite came pretty early in the movie, the scene in the classroom when Carrie says she finds Tommie Ross' poem "beautiful" - an over-the-shoulder cam shot in which both characters are facing us, we can see the expressions of Tommie and Carrie, he really likes her. Perhaps he didnt deserve to die. Fantastic performance by Sissy Spacek!

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Summary: Sissy Spacek Pole-Vaults Into Immortality
Review: Sissy, pole-vaulting into immortality by playing the avenging angel of all oppressed and abused teenagers. Holding up as a camp classic for nearly 30 years, as well as being referenced and spoofed in many other films, *Carrie* is a spectacular production that radically upped the ante for future teen-scream horror fests. As the socially-retarded, but secretly powerful Carrie White, Spacek plays her character with a sincerity that is heartbreaking. When, as part of a vengeful joke, she is elected Prom Queen, and is doused with a bucket of pig's blood, her powers of telekinesis go wild, and everybody pays. DePalma takes us on a wild visual ride, with breathtaking cinematography - an opening sequence of the girls' locker room is as dreamy and erotic as odalisque painting by Ingres, but it quickly devolves to one of the most distressingly graphic and disturbingly camp scenes in all filmdom - that of the menstruating Carrie on the floor of the shower being pelted with Kotexes by her classmates screaming, "Plug it up! Plug it up!" The scene is only the first of many ugly surprises DePalma has up his sleeve.
It is Sissy's stock-in-trade to play a character who has deep respect for (yet rebels against) her upbringing - often that of ignorant (but never stupid) white-trash from a bad gene-pool. In most films, she ultimately rises above her milieu and proves that a good heart will conquer all. *Carrie* is no exception, even though Sissy's character does not survive this one. It is the physical change from the impossibly-freckled, socially-retarded waif into the vision of 70s loveliness that enters into many of Sissy's portrayals, and Sissy expresses these changes in such a way to make the viewer look forward to them. She does not disappoint. Many aspects of the film have entered into the lexicon of film - the famous bucket of blood falling in slow motion sets off the ugly chain of events culminating in mayhem that has seldom been portrayed more shatteringly than the conflagration at the prom. The split-screen recording of the bloodbath at the end, cutting away all sound except for the dripping of blood, is magnificent. As quotable as *Valley Of The Dolls* and *All About Eve* ("I should have killed myself after the first time he put it in me." "I might have known it would be red." "I can see your dirty pillows." "Take off the dress, we'll burn it together and pray for forgiveness."), *Carrie* will live -and die - forever.

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Summary: Tear-jerking, powerful & terrifying horror classic 5/5stars!
Review: This film from director Brian De Palma, is one of the all-time great cinematic masterpieces. Tear-jerking, powerful & terrifying, CARRIE is one creepy classic that you absolutely CANNOT afford to miss.

Brilliance is the only word for it. Just see it for yourself...

Five out of five stars! EXTREMELY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.