Carrie (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Carrie (Special Edition)
Movie Review: A very unique kind of horror film
Summary: 5 Stars
Carrie (1976) is one of the more unique horror films, based on the novel by Stephen King. It has a down-to-earth feel to it, with the upcoming high school prom and a girl named Carrie White (played by Sissy Spacek) who is always being picked on by her classmates. Carrie White possesses telekinetic powers that few people know about. Her mother, played by Piper Laurie, is a religious fanatic who is extremely strict with her daughter, even to the point of physical abuse. Carrie grows to hate her mother as time goes on. This movie suddenly makes a sharp left turn and goes from being basically a teeny bopper high school prom movie to a horror movie filled with blood and destruction. This movie can be summed up like this: It is a movie about getting ultimate revenge on the people who have hurt you both physically and mentally.
Spacek and Laurie both received Academy Award nominations for their roles. This movie also stars John Travolta as a partying slacker named Billy Nolan who is in on the ultimate prank against Carrie White in this movie. It also stars William Katt as Tommy Ross, who is Carrie's prom date, and PJ Soles as Norma Watson.
In my opinion, the best performances were by Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, the two Academy Award-nominated actresses.
This DVD has good special features, including a documentary called "Acting Carrie" with Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Betty Buckley, etc., and a documentary called "Visualizing Carrie" with director Brian DePalma. There is also a featurette called "Carrie The Musical", an animated photo gallery, and a biography called "Stephen King And The Evolution".
This movie has good special effects for its time. I highly recommend this movie to all horror movie fans. A must see.
Movie Review: A True Horror Film
Summary: 5 Stars
The best movie monsters have always been ones that are the most human, and Brian DePalma's powerful adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller "Carrie" features some of the most vile to ever fill the screen. Selfish, sadistic, arrogant, violent, and senseless, the teenagers that torment Carrie White (an outstanding Sissy Spacek) deserve their punishment--and more--and DePalma milks every drop of sympathy for Carrie and animosity for them possible. Unlike so many DePalma films ("The Untouchables" being a notable exception), "Carrie" builds to its climax with a natural sense of inevitability, making the tragedy that ensues all the more devastating. By now, the plot is well known; a misfit with budding telekinetic powers struggles with puberty, a cruel religious zealot of a mother (Piper Laurie), and a high school populated by representatives of everything that is despicable about humanity (or European-American culture, as none of the major players is an ethnic minority and the social commentary is rather obvious). When the full extent of her powers are realized, Carrie cleans house, sparing neither the guilty nor the innocent. (Even a well-meaning teacher ignorant of Carrie's true powers is not spared.) DePalma gives the film a dreamy sensibility, and now that the music and fashion have returned somewhat, "Carrie" does not seem as dated as it was even a few years ago. Special mention goes to John Travolta, Nancy Allen, and P.J. Soles for being so effectively rotten (their glee when slaughtering a pig is especially creepy); their villainy is far more chilling than the paint-by-numbers variety that most actors portray. And what of Carrie, herself? The film correctly leaves that up to us to decide.Movie Review: If only they knew she had the 5 Stars
I have no idea what to say. I just watched this movie for the first time and I must say it has knocked me speechless.Er, first of all the acting was wonderful! Sissy (Carrie) was unbelieveable. She made Carrie seem real and made you truly feel for her. She put emotion and depth into the charater. By the end of the movie I felt as if I knew Carrie myself and was very close to her.
The women who played Carrie`s mom (I don't remember her name) played her part perfectly and I grew to hate her charater more and more by the second.
I would love to tell you how wonderful everyone in this movie was but I have many more things to say about this movie therefor I degress.
The directing was spectacular and the story itself chilling. The way they cut the car scene after the prom was especial wonderful (if you`ve seen the movie you know what I mean if you haven't what are you waiting for!? Watch the movie already!)
There was alot of emotion in this picture and although it was fairly short (Only 98 minuets. I would do just about anything for it to be a bit longer) it got the point across and was truly disturbling.
All together I loved the movie and I advise it to anyone who wants to watch a truly fantastic horror classic. Personly I rented it but it`s on the top of my list of things to buy. In fact if I have my way I shall own it before the day is out. (unfortuntly I doubt that is possible).
I am also going to buy the book as soon as possible.
I hope this review helped those wondering if they should watch this movie. Trust me! You should!
If only they knew she had the power........
Movie Review: CARRIE - I Think She Got Carrie(d) Away
Summary: 5 Stars
CARRIE was an excellent and very popular horror film of 1976 which earned four or five stars in my book. This DVD is a good clear transfer and has several very good documentaries on the making of the film, casting, and special effects. It is a must buy for all Steven King fans who wish to own one of his most well done and successful story transfers to the screen.
At the risk of taking the film plot too seriously I offer the following comments: I had never read the book and was very surprised when Carrie reacted as violently as she did to that dirty trick. Up until the ending she was portrayed as such a sympathetic and mild character that she really surprised me at the end of the story. She thoughtlessly did away with the innocent as well as the guilty and I couldn't help but notice that her telekinetic powers gave her no insights into the behavior of those around her. She never even looked down or offered a helping hand to her well meaning date Tommy, and allowed him to burn along with all the other well intentioned characters that attended her prom and were not in on that dirty joke in any way.
I guess this gave the screen writers license to subject her and her poor demented mother to the most horrible final fate when they were creamated in that spectacular house fire and collapsed into the Earth. I have been told that back in the days of the early Universal horror movies if a character was guilty of "murder" they absolutely had to die at the end of the film. Carrie certainly paid the ultimate price for her violent revenge. Of course, if Carrie had done something less spectacular it wouldn't have been much of a horror story.
Movie Review: One of the best horror movies of all time!
Summary: 5 Stars
Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is just your everyday social misfit in high school as she has been taunted and tormented by some students as she feels like an outcast. She discovers that she has telekinetic powers, Carrie also has a psychotic religious mother (Piper Laurie) and one night at the prom she goes berserk with her powers after a cruel prank goes bad.
Co-starring William Katt, John Travolta, Nancy Allen and Amy Irving this movie is one of the greatest cinematic horror masterpieces of all time. Brian DePalma was a great choice in directing this classic supernatural shocker and it is faithful to Stephen King's classic novel, the performances are excellent especially the cute Ms. Spacek as Carrie and the music score is quite memorable in this movie even the prom sequence that made this a classic.
This special edition DVD has excellent picture and sound quality with fine extras like theatrical trailer, two documentaries by Brian DePalma called "Visualizing Carrie" and "Acting Carrie" with the stars of the film, A bio on Stephen King, a featurette on the broadway musical of "Carrie" and a animated photo gallery.
Also recommended: "Scanners", "Akira", "The Shining", "Firestarter", "The Fury", "Making Contact (a.k.a. Joey)", "Sleepaway Camp", "Audrey Rose", "The Exorcist", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Halloween", "Scream", "Tourist Trap", "Patrick", "Ginger Snaps", "May", "The Pit", "The Rage: Carrie 2", "The Dead Zone (1983)", "Porky's", "Friday The 13th part 7: The New Blood", "X-Men Trilogy", "Suspect Zero", "The Gift" and "The Omen (1976)".