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Actor: Angela Bettis, Emilie de Ravin, Kandyse McClure, Patricia Clarkson, Rena SoferBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-12
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Carrie
Movie Review: Beauty, Dark Torments, Dark Tragedy, And Dark Retribution
Summary: 5 Stars
Stephen King's "Carrie" is among the top tier of horror novels ever written, but the 2002 remake version of the tale surpasses the original novel. Not to mention soaring past the original filmed version from 1976, which was loaded with talent on both sides of the camera but just couldn't capture the tension or emotion of the novel.
This is actually one that I only saw fairly recently. With it being a made-for-network-tv movie, I always kind of assumed it was going to be 'horror-lite', like the style of theatrical movies that were so popular in the late 90s. There were only a few of those I really got into, so the "Carrie" remake, while not something I was trying to avoid, was just never very high on my to-see list; I ended up renting it on a day when there were virtually no other horror movies in the video store I hadn't already seen.
From the first few moments onward, it becomes clear that this isn't an ordinary tv movie or mini-series. It's not on the light side either; either the DVD is extended or the backwards slide in what gets on tv hadn't really started in 2002. With Angela Bettis giving a stunning, award-worthy performance in the title role, "Carrie" is a riveting, frightening, and visually awesome tour-de-force that strikes at the heart and mind in a way that I've seen very few made-for-tv movies do. The story of "Carrie" is well-known but it's deeper and more affecting than can be conveyed in a few short words. The dysfunctionally shy, lonely, and anguished - and secretly telekinetic - Carrie Whyte is scorned and tormented by her peers at school, and berated and shamed at home by a mother who's own interpretation of religion is so twisted up she makes the world's most conservative televangelists look like Marx-quoting happy-go-lucky hippies. The question isn't If the repressed rage in Carrie is going to become too powerful for her to contain, but when and how. And it's after her life starts to improve only to be plunged into an even deeper pit that it's likely to come out.
The movie follows the book in operating in two timeframes - the bulk of the story going through in normal linear mode, with occasional flash-forwards into the future to show an ongoing investigation into catastrophic events that occured on Prom Night. The climatic last twenty-five minutes is jaw-dropping, much better than the same period in the novel (the only significant flaw in the novel, I thought, was that the events of that night took a sudden drop in its climatic end chapters right when things should have been at their most mind-blowing). The last twenty-five minutes have to be seen to be believed. Another change is that the number of sympathetic characters has been upped a bit - and they've been made more credible - than in the book or the previous remake. Despite those changes, it's very faithful to the spirit of King's novel - more than a lot of adaptations - but it's got the different hooks to make it feel so fresh. Everyone involved in this did smashing work, and they've created an all-time great, far better than I ever anticipated.
A horror essential, and every iota as great as the movie version of King's "The Green Mile".
Summary of Carrie
A shy young misfit has the power of telekinesis.Genre: Horror
Rating: UN
Release Date: 18-SEP-2007
Media Type: DVD
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