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Carrie Description
Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based
on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of
teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen
has taken her throne in the pantheon of modern American myth. High
school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. Soles,
and Nancy Allen plot to avenge themselves on ostracized fellow
student and budding telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) after
they get in trouble for pelting her with tampons. When they get
popular boy Tommy Ross (William Katz) to be her date for the prom,
the stage is set for some heart-rending cruelty and fiery
retribution. De Palma expertly uses split screens, slow motion,
color filters, and tracking shots to imbue the proceedings with a
haunting, allegorical elegance. Piper Laurie plays Carrie’s
mentally ill, devoutly Christian mom; she’s brilliant, as is
Spacek. John Travolta has a memorable pre-SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
role as one of the girls' beer-guzzling boyfriends. There was
finally a sequel in 1999, as well as a short-lived Broadway
musical.
Carrie, a shy teenager with a fiercely religious
and oppressive mother, struggles to come to terms with her
emerging sexuality and extraordinary telekinetic powers. Just as
she's beginning to enjoy a sudden change in her life, a cruel
practical joke drives her to a monstrous act of revenge and
destruction.
"...[The film] may be Brian De Palma's
best....It's a definitive revenge piece..."
"...The opening sequence is an uncanny tour
de force..."
Theatrical Release: November 3, 1976. |
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Carrie 2 Descrition
| Carrie White (Angela Bettis) is going through
an extremely difficult time. As she struggles to come to
terms with the feminine changes that adolescence brings, she
has also developed a sort of telekinetic power that she is
unable to fully control. Carrie attempts to shut herself off
from the rest of the school, but teasing pranksters have
targeted her for their next practical joke. This 2002
TV-Movie follows Stephen King's source novel faithfully,
offering a variety of scares, twists, and special effects
that were absent from Brian DePalma's 1976 theatrical
release. Patricia Clarkson stands out as Carrie's bizarre
mother. |
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