This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Underlying all stories from any time or place in history are characters who just want to be happy. Heroes and villians all act accordingly. Right or wrong, their means of obtaining happiness create many outcomes encompassing many genres. Sometimes things work out so well the story can only be called a fairy tale. When the search for happiness goes irreparably wrong, you get horror. Carrie is a cruel film because it tortures the audience with the comfortingly familiar foundations of…