1976 Directed by Brian De Palma
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Sissy Spacek Piper Laurie Amy Irving William Katt John Travolta Nancy Allen Betty Buckley P.J. Soles Priscilla Pointer Sydney Lassick Stefan Gierasch Michael Talbott Doug Cox Harry Gold Noelle North Cindy Daly Deirdre Berthrong Anson Downes Rory Stevens Edie McClurg Cameron De Palma Sharon Benson Terry Bolo Jean Glaudé Katie Irving Cynthia Schuler Larsen Dan Protheroe James Saad Janie Squire Show All…
Carrie, lo sguardo di Satana, Carrie: extraño presentimiento
wishing this film wasn’t directed by de palma so it wouldn’t be male-gazey as hell vs. knowing that if it wasn’t directed by de palma that prom scene would never have been that damn good
am i supposed to feel sorry for those annoying ass bitches? cause I SURE AS SHIT DON'T
Men be like this isn’t male gazy the extended shots of under age girls naked bodies are crucial to the plot you bitch
y'all expect me to feel sorry for those people in the gym ??? because i don't ??? carrie, you're doing amazing sweetie !!!
100
Blood-red release. Transformation spiraling into a moaning river-control-stream. Waiting for a car accident; still gasping at the smoke and human fumes. Orgasm Trauma bred within America's foundational cracks, pig blood sealing outcries of fate, trembled bodies dazzled and skewered. De Palma reinvigorates movement: its sensuality glides touch against the grain of composition. Terror in the known, and provoked. "It's beautiful." Laughter ensues. The fragile things don't just break, they shatter. Pop vulgarity shot up with tragic realism; the cloud nine of a master caught between pain and its deliverance.
A tragicomic stage show. Watch how the pageantry moves.
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…
It would take literally nothing away from this film to show the opening shower scene without full frontal nudity of characters who are supposed to be teenagers. The pedophilic gaze in so much of cinema is ignored by almost every critic, so ingrained in our media is this idea that it's okay to sexualize young women. This is not to say that teenagers themselves should be ignorant of or never understand themselves sexually, nor that no media should acknowledge teenage sexuality. It's to say that there is a way to show it that doesn't pander to a male and/or pedophilic gaze.
This film does avoid that after those opening moments, but that only proves how unnecessary they were. The cruelty…
Carrie has long been a gaping hole in my film watching history until tonight and what a fool I've been.
This film was incredible and indeed my first five star entry on this site.
Spacek is incredible as the titular character in a story of many twist and turns that is fantastically directed by Brian De Palma.
Piper Laurie is great as her overbearing Bible bashing mother who has raised Carrie to be such an insular character that she is derided by most of her peers.
The score also is one of the most haunting I have known.
This one's going to be on my mind for a few days to come.
there are a million words I could say about growing up evangelical or being ostracized by your peers for being different but honestly I don't have the energy for that so I'll just say
tommy ross, what a cutie
The prom scene was really cool. The entire third act of this film was just great.
Watched on Showtime
De Palma's stylistic impulses are on point, as ever, and Spacek and Laurie in particular bring great energy to their performances, but the build-up to the climax seems semi-perfunctory, both in terms of plotting and characterisation, and is overshadowed by the big finale. Donaggio's score is fun if slightly ridiculous, and I like how horny everyone is, but the weakness of character's motivations shines through and ultimately everyone is a bit of a psycho. 98 mins go by fairly quickly but I don't think it's up there with his best work.
loss of innocence through blood.
the second act drags for too long but it absolutely pays off in the third.
some iconic imagery.
all in all a weird movie.
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