Carrie (Special Edition)
by Brian De Palma
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Actor: Amy Irving, John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, William KattDirector: Brian De Palma
Brand: SPACEK,SISSY
Cinematographer: Mario Tosi
Producer: Brian De Palma
Editor: Paul Hirsch
Producer: Louis A. Stroller
Producer: Paul Monash
Writer: Lawrence D. Cohen
Writer: Stephen King
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Carrie (Special Edition)
Movie Review: CARRIE ROCKS!
Summary: 5 Stars
I think this horror flick was Sissy Spacek's best movie of them all and showing Sissy Spacek(Carrie White) at her best with interesting telekenetic powers and showing us what it's like for a lot of typical teenagers that get picked on in high school as well as going through the typical teenage peer pressures and growing pains that most adolescents go through, which assured a lot of us that we're not alone in that department, not to mention CARRIE had some very cute chicks in it too, including Nancy Allen as the sadistic popular bad girl(Christine Hargenson).
CARRIE also starts out deliciously nasty with a lot of bush, tits, and ass in the girls lockerroom with a bunch of sexy high school teenage girls flocking together running around as naked as the day they were born showing off every bangable part of their body grooming themselves, freshening up, changing clothes, taking showers, & brushing their hair like a typical high school girls gym looks like in real life after the ending of a typical high school PE Period except they used soft beautiful music scoring by Pino Donaggio for the girls lockerroom scene in slow motion at the beginning of this terror flick, which is very unusual since most movies with nude scenes in a lockerroom don't use any music composing for those scenes at all, unlike CARRIE, which was another thing that made the lockerroom scene in this Bryan De Palma film so intriguing.
In addition, I think the girls lockerroom scene at the beginning of this flick was also Nancy Allen's best nude scene, Sissy Spacek's best nude scene, and P.J. Soles best nude scene ever throughout their whole acting career, especially when they showed Carrie's nude scene in the shower showing us everything but Sissy Spacek's snatch and when they showed Nancy Allens sexy genitals along with half the other gals shown bare-assed & bare-breasted in the girls gym, including PJ Soles(Norma)in the showers which goes to show you that females weren't uncomfortable to be naked in front of and/or around other women back then as opposed to how it supposedly is nowadays.
As a matter of fact, the lockerroom scene at the beginning of this movie was my favorite scene throughout this entire film, especially since I really enjoyed seeing Sissy Spacek, Nancy Allen, and P.J. Soles naked like many other people did, which I'm sure was another reason that made this thriller CARRIE so popular in the 70's and why so many people still like to watch the movie from time to time to this very day, except you cant enjoy it nearly as much if you watch this movie on cable TV or in syndication, since this flick contains too many scenes that are too gory, too sexy, & too offensive, including lots of profanity.
I also like the way the PE teacher Ms. Collins(Betty Buckley) stood up for Carrie and how she handled all the girls in Carrie's PE class after bullying Carrie with the crappy stunt they pulled on Carrie when she panics after she wipes blood from her cunt and realizes that she started her period for the very first time and being clueless to what a typical adolescent period really was.
I especially liked the way the PE Teacher handled Carrie's sleazy low-life classmate Hargenson, since Hargenson ended up getting what she deserved from Miss Collins, especially after the vicious incident that the atrocious Hargenson instigated on Carrie with the bombarding of the tampons in the lockeroom and when Ms. Collins turns the tables on malicious Hargenson when she ends up slapping the obnoxious Hargenson and nearly knocking her on her ass out on the football field after the relentless Hargenson pulls a hasty stunt on Miss Collins by talking back to her and trying to get the rest of her PE classmates to unionize against the coach, except the sadistic Hargenson's idea & stunt ends up failing and getting herself banned from the prom instead.
One of the things that I found baffling in this movie that I found kind of corny was Hargensons pal(Norma)never took her hat off in the movie with the exception of Norma's nude scene in the girls lockerroom showers in full-frontal nudity, which I also found intriguing, since PJ Soles also came out in the original "HALLOWEEN" 2 years later playing the devirginized sassy high school cheerleeder(Lynda) who also ends up dying in the 1978 flick of HALLOWEEN as well, which also did a cool sex scene in that movie with partial nudity showing PJ's hooters, except P.J. Soles wasn't as annoying or as snotty in John Carpenters HALLOWEEN as she was in CARRIE.
In fact, P.J. Soles sexy nude scene in the girls lockerroom at the beginning of the movie CARRIE is initially what helped PJ Soles to get the role for Lynda in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, since P.J. Soles impressive nude scene in CARRIE had potentially inspired John Carpenter to consider P.J. Soles for a teenage role in HALLOWEEN and chances are Nancy Allen's intriguing nude scene in full-frontal nudity in CARRIE had inspired director(Bryan DePalma) for her sexy nude scene in the shower in DRESSED TO KILL a few years later.
I also found it to be a shame that Carrie even ended up killing Ms. Collins(Betty Buckley) towards the end of the movie when Carrie ends up killing most of the prom attendants at her high school when she uses her powers to blow up the whole gymnasium after the stuck up Hargenson and her sleazy low-life boyfriend Billy Nolan(John Travolta) pull a nasty stunt on Carrie by dumping pigs blood on her after getting elected prom queen with her prom date Tommy Ross(Bill Katt) to ruin and embarrass the hell out of Carrie at the prom, in order to avenge Carrie, especially after snotty Hargenson ends up getting restricted from the the prom by Miss. Collins.
I also enjoyed watching the bonus features on this DVD behind the making of CARRIE describing how they did the destruction scene in the gym when Carrie set it on fire killing just about everyone who attended the prom and how they actually used cornsyrup and red paint and food coloring for the pigs blood that the malicious Hargenson dumped on Carrie at the prom and that Nancy Allen and De Palma eventually became an item & got married in real life when they made this movie CARRIE and the terror flick DRESSED TO KILL, not to mention CARRIE & DRESSED TO KILL were probably DePalma's 2 greatest movies ever made and directed by him of all times.
The bonus features on this CARRIE DVD also have a lot of the co-stars like Sissy Spacek, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley, Amy Irving, and Piper Laurie along with De Palma telling us about their experience while making and filming the movie CARRIE like how Nancy Allen and Betty Buckley had to keep rehearsing the slapping scene out on the football field about 30 times till they got it right, in order to make it convincing for audiences, plus De Palma explained how tough it was for all the lady co-stars in this movie who did a nude scene in the girls lockerroom at the beginning of this flick and how it created a lot of tension for them, which even contributed to some of those lady co-stars balking out and crying in the process since it made them feel uncomfortable having to waltz around naked in front of the camera in real life while filming this movie, especially since at least half of them had to show off their pubic hair which probably made this the hardest scene of all to do in this entire movie.
Nancy Allen also added on that bonus feature behind the scenes on the movie CARRIE by explaining how she ended up enjoying that nude scene in the girls lockerroom afterwhile since it actually ended up working out very well in a way since that nude scene made Nancy Allen and all the other female co-stars in that movie bond together beautifully since it helped her(Nancy Allen) along with all her other lady co-stars in this flick,including Sissy Spacek and PJ Soles overcome their fear and tension of being butt-naked in front of the camera while filming this movie during that lockerroom scene at the beginning of CARRIE along with the fact that movies rarely start out with an intriguing nude scene beaver & all, which was another thing that kind of made the movie CARRIE quite genuine.
In addition to that; De Palma added in the bonus feature special that a lot of the lady co-stars and extras in this movie were great troopers at doing the nude scene in the girls gym at the beginning of this movie, especially the gals who were shown in full-frontal nudity, but that in actuality they had filmed Sissy's nude scene in the girls lockerroom showers before they had actually filmed Carrie's classmates/Sissy's co-stars in the nude in order to give Sissy's co-stars a lot more self-confidence to be stark-naked during the girls gym scene at the beginning of this flick in order to convince all the female co-stars in this movie that if Sissy Spacek could do a nude scene in the girls lockerroom showers without any qualms that the rest of the female co-stars can do the nude scene in the girls lockerroom too, not to mention that whole nude scene at the beginning of this movie also shows us how gals groomed themselves a lot differently back then in the 70's than they do nowadays on top of that.
Therefore, De Palma and all the film editors had spliced the nude scenes with Sissy showering in the ladies lockerroom stalls and the nude scenes of the rest of her female co-stars in the girls gym to make it look like all of Carrie's classmates had showered at the end of their P.E. class before Carrie White(Sissy Spacek)took her shower in those same shower stalls alone to make Carrie look like an outcast, but De Palma and the film experts had revised the scenes when they spliced them out by revising and rearranging the sequences of each scene in the order they wanted them shown in this flick in order to give the rest of the female co-stars enough confidence to do that remarkable nude scene in the girls lockerroom with a lot of female genitalia at the beginning of this thriller.
Additionally, P.J. Soles had explained in that bonus feature how she was originally scheduled to only be on the set for only a few days, but De Palma had decided to keep her on longer and to do more scenes and that De Palma got the idea for PJ Soles to wear her cap in every scene when he met P.J. Soles for the very first time when she came to audition for the part of Norma Watson since P.J. Soles was already wearing a cap in real life and felt it was catchy.
Therefore, De Palma had PJ Soles wear her hat in every scene she did in the movie with the exception of her nude scene in the girls lockerroom showers at the beginning of this flick when P.J. Soles is shown in full-frontal nudity.
It was also interesting seeing Bill Katt before his GREATEST AMERICAN HERO days and John Travolta in this movie during his WELCOME BACK KOTTER days and before he became famous and popular as well as before doing the movie SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.
It's just too bad that they didn't end up picking Jamie-Lee Curtis to be a co-star in this movie too, because I think Jamie-Lee Curtis would've been awesome in this movie, kind of like she was in the movies PROM NIGHT, HALLOWEEN, and THE FOG, not to mention the 1980's flick PROM NIGHT was a tad similar to CARRIE since PROM NIGHT was like a cross between HALLOWEEN & CARRIE, but this movie CARRIE takes me all the way back to memory lane to life in the 70's such as sex, drugs, Rock & Roll, Disco music, Bell-bottomed pants, fluffy poofy hairdos, going to your high school Junior and/or Senior Prom, etc.
Summary of Carrie (Special Edition)
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie "catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go" (Time)! Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie (in OscarĀ(r)-nominated* performances), John Travolta and Amy Irving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is "absolutely spellbinding" (Roger Ebert), "outrageously witty" (Los Angeles Times) and one of the all-time great horror classics! At the center of the terror is Carrie (Spacek), a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no friends...and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far, the once-shy teen becomes an unrestrained, vengeance-seeking powerhouse who, with the help of her 'special gift,' causes all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood, fire and brimstone! *1976: Spacek, Actress; Laurie, Supporting ActressSimilar DVD Movies
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