Carrie
1976 Directed by Brian De Palma
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If you’ve got a taste for terror, take Carrie to the prom.
Carrie may be ostracized, but the shy teen has the ability to move objects with her mind. So when the high school "in crowd" torments her with a sick joke at the prom, she lashes out with devastating -- and deadly -- power.
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There are few things more awkward in this World than watching the opening credits of Carrie in the presence of your parents. Any teenage boy who has had to endure such a scenario will know just how uncomfortable it is. You just don’t know where to look! Worse still, if you’re in the boat that I was in when I first sat down to watch it, you’ve got the added dilemma of pretending that you’re enjoying it – but not too much – so as not to arouse suspicious glares from your parents who, despite your love of Abba and Duran Duran, are very much in the dark about your choices in life. I’m not sure if that was…
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Anchored by a stunning lead performance by Sissy Spacek, "Carrie" works effectively as a character piece and a horror film because it spends time developing its characters. What a concept?! Actual creepiness and scares don't show up until the third act, making them that much more impactful when they come. I know it's a cliche to say, but they really don't make them like they used to.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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It might seem impossible coming from a De Palmaniac like myself for the label "De Palma for people who hate De Palma" to be anything but an insult but I think it's an apt description for what may very well be the guy's best movie. There's a fount of humanity in every scene that I will admit just isn't there in any of his other movies - ironically it's the movie that even his detractors say "steals" the least from Hitchcock that ends up coming closest to the Hitchcock level of greatness - where acting and screenplay and music and, yes, showoffy camerawork, come together and crystallize into something closely resembling perfection.
As a result of that crystallization it's hard…
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There's a reason Carrie is a classic. You most likely already know how this film plays out. The key scenes are so iconic there's a good chance you've probably already seen them, or are at least vaguely aware of the journey this story takes and where it ends up. But unlike certain classic horror scenes which are unforgettable because they are so shocking or gruesome or bloodily disgusting, the context here plays a pivotal role. Try not to dismiss this movie just because you've already seen the key scenes - often regarded as the best bits - or because you think you know the story. You don't really know Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) until you've gone to the prom with…
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A deeply sad and tragic film. The 3rd act is just a complete nightmare scenario.
De Palma does his usual shtick, but it works here quite well. Complete with the scariest mother ever, and a rather iconic take on a persons breaking point. Sissy Spacek's eerie beauty is captured to great effect here, and William Katt is gorgeous. The spinning dance scene is the film highlight, a highly beautiful scene, before all hell breaks loose and the audience can only ask what if?
The saddest horror film I have ever seen.
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I was wondering if there would ever be a time I watched Carrie and the arm didn't make me jump. I'm still wondering.
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There's a reason Carrie is a classic. You most likely already know how this film plays out. The key scenes are so iconic there's a good chance you've probably already seen them, or are at least vaguely aware of the journey this story takes and where it ends up. But unlike certain classic horror scenes which are unforgettable because they are so shocking or gruesome or bloodily disgusting, the context here plays a pivotal role. Try not to dismiss this movie just because you've already seen the key scenes - often regarded as the best bits - or because you think you know the story. You don't really know Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) until you've gone to the prom with…
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Brian De Palma's films come down to a simple question: Do the good elements outweigh the bad ones. In the case of Carrie they do, although if you are to only watch the first thirty minutes or so it can seem as though things might not come together in any significant way, but boy do they come together...or more accurately fall apart. I can see the love for this both as a horror film and as a work in De Palma's oeuvre.
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My second viewing of Carrie, the previous being during this year, certainly confirms for me that it is one of the best horror films ever, but more importantly, simply just a great film. Adapted from Stephen King's epistolary novel of the same name by Brian De Palma it is assured and packed full of impact.
Simple yet effective impact which involves and follows the life of Carrie White, a bullied teenage female who has a special ability, telekinesis. Following Carrie having her first period and not understanding it, she believes she's going to die, and begs for the other girls help (This all happens in the showers of course) but they just laugh at her and basically bombard her with…
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Anchored by a stunning lead performance by Sissy Spacek, "Carrie" works effectively as a character piece and a horror film because it spends time developing its characters. What a concept?! Actual creepiness and scares don't show up until the third act, making them that much more impactful when they come. I know it's a cliche to say, but they really don't make them like they used to.
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Equally as unnerving as it is entertaining.
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The story at the heart of Carrie is really pretty incredible, but this film is pretty sloppy. It's way too overdone, preferring to hit its audience over the head when it should be subtle and failing to impress in its loudest most cinematic moments with cheap effects and easy scare tactics, that it fails to even be creepy. I'd never seen a Brian De Palma film before this, and this film didn't do much to endear him to me. Perhaps I should be more lenient considering the obviously low budget, but with its weirdly dull performances and obnoxious synthesizer score Carrie feels like it was directed as if it were a porno or something.
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Don't know why I love this film. I think it took me by surprise. And that one scene with the pigs blood...pure amazing!
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Brian de Palma's venture into the horror genre left an ever-lasting impact with the sublime Carrie, a film that touches upon a multitude of important and difficult themes related to adolescence. At the centre is the socially anxious Carrie White, unloved at home by a mother obsessed with keeping up her religious beliefs and forcing them on her daughter, and terrorized at her High School. With no friends and daily bullying, only to come home to endure the disturbing psychological pressure thrusted upon her by her mother, Carrie wanders through life aimlessly. After a particularly traumatizing incident in the showers she unwillingly caused a series of events that increased the loathing some of her fellow female students feel towards her.…