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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…

The wallflower who finally shatters the wall, or I Was a Teenage Medusa. It glides from a volleyball game to La danse des nymphes in the girls’ locker room, and the slow-mo reverie of Brian De Palma’s tracking camera is interrupted as menarche suddenly hits Carrie (Sissy Spacek) in the shower. "You’re a woman now," proclaims her mother (Piper Laurie) before whomping the dismayed misfit with the Holy Bible. Hysteria, hormonal as well as evangelical, is strikingly ingrained in the mise en scène: Carrie in the closet is Gish in Broken Blossoms, an overhead shot gives way to a close-up of a Saint Sebastian figurine with mysteriously luminous eyes. Pelted with taunts and tampons, she quietly cultivates her telekinetic powers…

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"They’re all gonna laugh at you."

After I had finished watching Carrie for the first time the other night, I walked down the hallway into my bathroom, I closed the door, looked in the mirror, and wondered why I had never seen this movie up until that point in time. It was then that the bathroom mirror started cracking and my house started crumbling into the earth.

Being bullied is something that I've experienced a few times throughout my life. Most of the bullying took place in my last three years of elementary school and a little bit of it also bled into my middle school years. The bullying never escalated…

The very horror classic that has haunted prom nights ever since it was introduced to the filmgoing audience back in 1976, Brian De Palma's Carrie is one of the first adaptations of a Stephen King novel on the film canvas and even though it looks quite dated today, it still does a much better job in storytelling elements than the horror flicks of today.

The film tells the story of Carrie White; a shy & peerless 17-year old girl who possesses a rare gift of telekinesis and has faced nothing but constant abuse at the hands of her fanatically religious mother. The main plot of the film concerns a humiliating prank Carrie's classmates play on her which ultimately ends with very…

The teenage years are tough. They are full of weird physical changes, weird fashion, and weird music. There are adults who are too supportive because it is their job, adults who are too overbearing because of their emotional makeup, and adults who can not be bothered with learning children's names because they do not care. There are allies, enemies, enemies-turned-allies, and allies-turned-enemies simply because of one's own sheer physical or emotional awkwardness. There is the stumbling, insecure evil of one's peers. It is a tough time in anyone's life.

With "Carrie," Brian De Palma creates more an allegorical testament to those years than a straightforward horror film. Based on Stephen King's novel, De Palma's film deftly captures the oddness, the…