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Movie Reviews of Carrie (Special Edition)
Movie Review: CLASSIC HORROR TRAGEDY!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Only a few movies really horrified me as a child: Dawn Of The Dead, The Shining, Phantasm, and Carrie. I despise The Shining because I read the book in junior high and saw that Kubrick, although brilliant, had butchered a book that was really too involved to put on celluloid. Carrie remains the only King novel-to-film that stands alone in itself as a horror classic, although the book is just as disturbing.
Carrie scared me as a five year old (I STILL remember the trailer!), then petrified me when my mom bought the novel, because the cover at the time was Sissy Spacek covered in blood...mom had to trash the book...sorry, Ma! Then I watched the movie with my sister when I was about eight....and well, I have probably seen it a HUNDRED times after that!!!! Never get tired of it! (Along with Phantasm and D.O.T.D.)
I'm not going to rehash the story....I just would like the younger horror fans to delve into the world of truly masterfully-crafted horror cinema made by the likes of DePalma, Romero, Cronenberg....I know I forgot someone, but DePalma outdid himself with this. The cinematography is fantastic, the morbidity, the expressions of horror; not blood n guts, but the horror of human beings' cruelty to one another...SHINES! Best adaptation of King's interpretation of small-town evil come to claim its own in an unassuming form.
Carrie is REQUIRED VIEWING for anyone who claims to be a horror fan...and I consider myself an old hand. If you haven't seen it, or The (original) Omen, you gotta zip the lip: ya know diddly.
The main thing about this movie that stays with me is that as I got older, I really believed the actors in their roles: they were all exemplary. Sissy Spacek was so tragic as the pathetic Carrie White, her mother and tormentors, played beautifully by Piper Laurie, John Travolta, to name the more familiar faces, were so REAL. The movie now isn't horror to me, but sad. The all-powerful ENDING, which everyone mentions here, still spooks me to this day...still tough to watch.
Now if THAT doesn't make a classic, you tell me!
Movie Review: And I liked it! I liked it...All that dirty 5 Stars
My caption is from this film and said with such powerfrom the one of a kind Piper Laurie(HI PIPEY)I LOVE
HORROR films and unfortunatly us AMAZON/HORROR fanatics
really don't have much to choose from,but when we do
have a JEWEL like this film it is so refreshing!
CARRIE(76)Is without a doubt ONE of thee greatest
HORROR films of ALL time.The directing is flawless
(what else would you expect from the man DePalma)
The cast is top notch and the story(KING'S FIRST)
Is amazing and scary at the same time.DePalma tells
the story of Carrie who is a pretty girl(though she
does not think so)and has no self esteem do in part
to her CRAZY religious mother.She has no friends and
with the exception of GOD and her mother has no one to
talk to.She does however have a power,the power to
move objects(telakineses,I spell wrong)This is such a
FANTASTIC movie.DePalma gives us DRAMA-ACTION-ROMANCE
COMEDY,and of course HORROR.You feel for Carrie when
she is at the prom and is Cinderella and you feel for her
at the FALL of BLOOD! I am not one to cry at movies but
DAMN! DePalma and Spacek for the scene"HOLD ME MAMMA,PLEASE
HOLD ME..For I was NIAGRA FALLS(maybe it was smokey in my
house..though I don't smoke) The ending is still a punch
and will not tell(for those of you who have not seen it and
if you have not"WAKE UP")This movie is GOLD!Also the music
is FLAWLESS Please see,BUY CARRIE it is A MASTERPIECE!!!!!
Also recommend for you lovers of movies to check out other
DePalma films for he is ONE of our greatest directors.
Check out my friend R.A.Bean's column on the GREAT DePalma
for he not only breaks down his work in a professional
manner but gives insight to those who are blind to film
making.LONG LIVE CARRIE! "SAY IT WOMAN!EVE WAS WEAK!
"RED....I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IT WOULD BE RED........
NOTE:I hate remakes(OH! I DO)but also recommend
the remake CARRIE for Angela Bettis alone(moochie-moochie)!
Movie Review: Rest In Peace,Carrie White
Summary: 5 Stars
"Carrie" is...without a doubt THE best horror film ever made!!! Well,next to "Dressed To Kill" & "The Shining",of coarse. Sorry all you naysayers of The Shining,but it is a directors right,when they take a book and turn it into a movie,to figure out what they want to include and what they want to leave out. Well,enough of that,kiddies,let us get down to business.The second scene,after the opening scene of a volleyball game,is a slow motion scene of the girls leaving the shower,some of them are naked,like the very lovely Nancy Allen (whom I have had a crush on since I was ten!!) while the other girls are in various states of putting their clothes back on.Oh,yea...Amy Irving is also a longtime crush. The piano and strings that are played during this scene are just lovely.Pino Donaggio sure composes interesting music. (The music that he did for 'Dressed To Kill' just gives me chills!!) The split-screen technique during Carrie's "Rampage From Hell" towards the end of the film was used to perfect effect.Nice to see what kind of carnage is going on while at the same time we see Carrie trying to figure out where to direct her telekinetic rage next!! I love Brian DePalma's use of split-screen.DePalma,if your reading this,you are a true master of the horror genre!!! Some of the most terrifying scenes,i think are,When Sue Snell,in her dream leans over to put flowers on the lot where carrie's house used to stand and then Carrie's hand comes out through the rocks. That scene just creeped me out when I was a kid and it still creeps me out today.More creepy scenes are Carrie,with all of that pigs blood dribbling down. Talk about a truly terrifying vision from hell!! Carrie's mom,coming at her with knife in hand,the close up of the very creepy-looking Jesus-on-a-crusifix,and of coarse Carrie's mom waiting for her behind the door when Carrie goes upstairs....And that about wraps it up. Oh,yea,one other thing,with all of the interviews with some of the cast included in the extras,why didn't John Travota do an interview?? Sort of odd. Oh,well Ira Coos Bay,OregonMovie Review: Excellent Horror Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
With its dark humor and its disturbing imagery, CARRIE has to be one of the best horror films ever made (and at least in the top 50 films ever made). Sissy Spacek (in her first Oscar nominated role) plays Carrie White, a tormented and abused teen who wants nothing more than to have a few friends. One day, while showering in gym class, she has her first period. She has no idea what is going on (her mother, who I'll get to in a minute, never tells her anything about puberty, believing everything about it is either a sin or unimportant) so she freaks out. Her classmates don't help things either, by giving her a lot of grief, until her sympathetic gym teacher comes in and breaks up the ruckus. Carrie then gets sent home by the principal, who is intent on calling her Cassie, who doesn't know that things there aren't any better (and are probably worse). Once home her mother (Piper Laurie, also nominated for an Oscar for this film) starts preaching to her and then throws her into the cupboard under the stars. Yet, that's only the beginning, and I'm not about to sit here and type up the entire screenplay for you. So, you're just gonna have to rent it or buy it (rent first, because this movie isn't for everyone). I have but one grievance for the film itself (and the novel, actually): Why does Carrie end up in Hell? She was a good person, and simply snapped and took revenge on her class (harshly, VERY harshly) and that destroyed her immortal soul! I think that Carrie should not have been killed off right away, and ABSOLUTELY should have been given another chance to redeem herself and repent what she did. She wasn't by any means a bad person, she was driven to do what she did. But all in all, this film is excellent and is one of my favorites.
p.s.- I have seen NETWORK (excellent film), but I still think that Sissy Spacek should have gotten the Best Actress award over Faye Dunaway (who also was excellent in her role, but I think that Sissy Spacek was superior in her acting than her.).
But, that's just my opinion. What's yours?
Movie Review: They don't make them like this anymore...
Summary: 5 Stars
I read Stephen King's "Carrie" at a young age, when I was 13, and not surprisingly, it freaked me out. Now I saw the movie for the first time at 32. Brian De Palma's credit lies in being able to make the film as breathtakingly engrossing as I felt when i was reading the book. Tastes develop, and something i liked at 13 is not likely to impress much in my early 30s, but with "Carrie" the movie I felt like i was revisiting the book, and felt all the chills again. But the film, or the book for that matter, is not just about chill factor. Issues like teenage angst, upbringing, peer pressure and the need to fit in are touched upon in the process, without losing sight of the fact that this is a "horror movie". We are left thinking does Carrie White really deserve to burn in hell, as the graffiti on the vacant plot notice says? In my book she doesn't. Contrast the families of Carrie and Sue Snell. Carrie's mother is a fundamentalist freak who calls breasts 'dirty pillows' and thinks the natural processes of growing up are sinfull. No wonder then that her daughter is a social misfit. Sue Snell's family, by contrast, is happy American suburbia. Although Sue initially takes part in tormenting Carrie, she quickly makes amends and is redeemed. In the end, she is the only survivor in the horrible climax, which is somewhat cheesily done (by today's standards) in split screen (i am told that was a common technique in 70s movies). But memorable scenes abound, the opening shower sequence, the silenced bloodbath scene with just the sound of blood dripping from the bucket, Carrie's mother knifed to the walls in a crucifix form, but my favourite came pretty early in the movie, the scene in the classroom when Carrie says she finds Tommie Ross' poem "beautiful" - an over-the-shoulder cam shot in which both characters are facing us, we can see the expressions of Tommie and Carrie, he really likes her. Perhaps he didnt deserve to die. Fantastic performance by Sissy Spacek!