Carrie

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Summary: Loved it, Drew ALL my emotions out, Litteraly threw me over.
Review: This was my Favorite and the best movie of all time. It was GREAT and i do not know how else i can express that, it was more than great. It pulled all my emotions out of me showing me some feelings i've never felt before. Truly a masterpiece by Stephen King, by the movie or read the book, both are good but even so it is truly the movie of a lifetime, i mean it's GREATER than GREAT. It's good for a horrific nite out with friends or a slumber party, i watch it over and over and over again, all the time, that's how GOOD it is, and EXCELENT film with an Adventageous plot END

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Summary: They're all gonna laugh at you!
Review: "Carrie" is one heck of a movie. It's horror and drama all wrapped up in one. Sissy Spacek plays the timid Carrie White, a girl who is tormented by her classmates, and abused by her religious fanatic mother, Margaret (Piper Laurie). No one likes her, except for her gym teacher Miss Collins (Betty Buckley), but after a terrible prank in the girls locker room, one of the pranksters, Sue Snell (Amy Irving) feels sorry for what she did and asks her popular football player jock boyfriend Tommy (William Katt) to ask Carrie to the prom. He agrees and for once, the audience is happy for Carrie, seeing she is having a great time at the prom, but the evil Chris Hargenson (Nancy Allen) decides to pull a prank on Carrie that proves all too deadly. This film is fantastic. It is a cross between drama (the first half) and complete horror (the second half). The weird thing is, you really do feel sorry for Carrie! The way she is tormented by her classmates and her mother is awful, but the viewer knows about her new "powers" and she really makes use of them during that prom! By the way, in case anyone is confused by this, Carrie was imagining her classmates laughing at her, they really weren't. Based on the novel by Stephen King, it spawned numerous imitations and was followed by a sequel 23 years later.

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Summary: I Can See Your Dirty Pillows!!!
Review: Stephen King's first novel that was adapted into film version is quite true to the author's words. While Stephen King was less than pleased with the film version of his malevolent masterpiece, "The Shining", King was quite happy with Brian De Palma's direction and his vision with "Carrie".
Sissy Spacek in her debut role as the freakish, shy and telekinetic Carrie White. Sissy beat out Melanie Griffith and Carrie Fisher for the title role that launched her career.

The beautiful Piper Laurie is cast as the ravenous religious fanatic, stark-raving, bible beating, madwoman and Carrie's mother, Margaret White who chastises Carrie relentlessly and has a penchant for locking her daughter in the closet with a really creepy, crucified Jesus statue and candles so that Carrie may repent of her evil, sinful and womanly ways.

Amy Irving as the well-to-do town doctor's daughter Sue Snell and Amy's real-life mom, Priscilla Pointer as the "cocktails at five socialite", Mrs. Snell.

William Katt plays Tommy Ross who asks Carrie to The Bates High School Senior Prom, the butch, Betty Buckley as the ultimate in P.E. teachers from Hell, Miss Collins, Nancy Allen , Brian De Palma's wife as the horribly cruel and self-absorbed, Chris Hargensen, John Travolta as the boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Billy Nolan and P.J. Soles, the "whore" from Halloween as Chris' best friend and partner in crime, Norma Watson.

Even a young Edie, (Grace from Ferris Buehler's Day Off and the car rental lady from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles) has a bit part.

The real star here, however, is Brian De Palma's direction and the cinematography in "Carrie". The opening shower scene rivals "Psycho", the Senior Prom dance scene makes the viewer dizzy no matter how small a screen you watch it on, the split-screen King and Queen and ensuing bloodfest is masterfully directed and shot along with the dream sequence that was filmed backwards in the end. However, my favorite scene is where Margaret White is crucified a la "creepy Jesus statue" style, by her own daughter!

A Top 10 Horror Film In My Book!

Happy Watching and Unpleasant Dreams!

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Summary: carrie
Review: This movie is a horror film yes. But it's not as scary as films now a days. This film is about a girl named Carrie White. She is picked on everyday and has no friends. Soon she figures out she has telekenetic powers. She reseaches it and learns that other people have it. Her mother sees that she has that power and is upset. Her mother thinks that everything is a sin. If you ask me the mother is the scariest thing about this movie. Then the classic prom scene. Almost everyone is dead. Carrie goes home and kills her mother and the house collapses. No more Carrie.

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Summary: Classical
Review: Carrie White is a bit strange. She is friendless, her mother is obsessed with worshipping god, and sin, everybody at school harrases her, and to top it all off, she gets asked to the prom by the "hottest" guy in school, which also happens to be the guy Carrie has "special feelings" for.

Now, when you mix all those things together, do you come to the conclusion that Carrie might be under a lot of pressure? Well sure you do, cause she is. And to her horror, when she and Billy or whoever it is, i forget his name, starts to dance to the school song, a huge bucket of pigs blood is poured on her.

Blood, guts, gore...not really, but during the last half hour or so, the violence is pretty strong, not too graphic, but there are some graphic scenes of violence. When a girl gets crushed by a basketball hoop thingy, and when Carries mom gets killed by knifes being stabbed in her. I am sure there are some other ones, but those are the most graphic that i Can remeber right now.

Not too sexual, but there are definatly some sexual scenes, after all, this IS stephen king we are talking about, read this book and that will be enough dose of sexuality for you for one day, guarenteed.

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Summary: Smokin' Flick!
Review: Carrie may not have been the first "teen" horror movie, but it was the first one anyone took very seriously. Infact Sissy Spacek earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of the title character. Everything, all the elements of the film, story, editing, music, photography - come together seamlessly to tell the tale Carrie White with a power that time hasn't faded in almost twenty-five years. Today CARRIE is as much a genre classic as FRANKENSTIEN.

The tragic tale of a tortured misfit who unleashes a terrible vengeance upon her tormentors was first released in 1976. Directed by a young Brian DePalma the film features an incredible combination of talent both in front and behind the camera- and it shows in every frame.

This new "Special Edition" DVD shows the film in it's original wide screen format (unlike an earlier '98 release), the image quality is really excellent, as is the sound quality. I viewed it on a stereo system, but the box boasts a surround sound feature as well for all of you out there with the good stuff.

Also featured are two documentaries about the making of the film. One, "Visulizing Carrie," is a discussion of all the behind the scenes decisions that went into the making of the film. And the other one is "Acting Carrie," a film that talks with the actors about the film.

Probably the only truly "dated" feature on the DVD is the original trailer. It's a hoot.

All in all, this edition of CARRIE should be a must have for horror fans and movie collectors. The importance of the film, while overlooked for years, is obvious from the moment the movie starts until it's terrible conclusion. It's a powerful film that's influence can still be seen in today's Hollywood, beautifully presented on this DVD.

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Summary: A Great Stephen King Movie As Always
Review: "Carrie" is a monumental film released in 1976 that was so fresh for its time that many rushed to the theater to see it. This is based on the first novel published by Stephen King in 1974. When it was released, no other author had touched such territories in a such unique style. The unusual theme kept people curious to what he would write next. He immediately became a celebrity. Such uniqueness remains fresh today. "Carrie" is also the first film adaptation of one of his novels. It earned two Oscar nominations: Best Actress (Sissy Spacek) and Best Supporting Actress (Piper Laurie).

This brilliant plot of a high school student, Carrie White, continues growing more interesting moment after moment. The mystery and the suspense builds as Carrie slowly discovers and understands her supernatural powers. Once she learns that it has a name, telekenesis, they begin growning more destructively. However, the emotional aspect remains present, namely through the bullying and being emotionally tortured by her abusive religious mother. The chain of events keep audiences watching closely up to the chilling conclusion. The haunting conclusion has since become famous like the shower scene in "Psycho" (1960). Her rampage has since been imitated by several films, but none have matched the intensity of "Carrie". Such tremendous film quality goes beyond Carrie's humilating moment of having pig's blood dumped on her by some bully pranksters during her senior prom.

The physical surroundings and the performance enhance the eerie theme. The house decorations enhance the good vs. evil aspect, going beyond the multiple crosses. They give the supernatural plot portions a deeper horror feel. Though all the actors performed their roles well, Spacek and Laurie stand out. Spacek expresses her tortures splendidly, giving audiences the powerful aspect. This is the film that placed her in much higher acting territory. Laurie's performance alone made the telekenesis theme more scary.

"Carrie" is a great film for those looking for a great horror classic. It's sure to please audiences for many more years. However, it's sequel "The Rage: Carrie 2", not based on a Stephen King novel, is not as great as the original though worth watching once.

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Summary: This film is dedicated to the Devil...with false modesty.
Review: Released in 1976, "Carrie" is a disturbing horror film that's generously fueled by psychological tension. Unlike "The Exorcist" and "The Omen," "Carrie" is not about the Devil's chicanery. Although it does overlap ominous images of Christ with the raging feminine hormones of teenagers, the film actually decrys the tragic reality of school bullying; as an underrated form of child abuse, this so-called "rite of passage" involves a youth culture so cruel and thoughtless that it can its drive victims to suicide or murder.
Actress Sissy Spacek portrays Carrie White, a shy and lonely misfit who is constantly harrassed by her classmates. After another strenuous game of volleyball, Carrie begins to menstrate in the girls' shower. Terrified at seeing the blood on her fingers, she hysterically screams at one of the other students for help. But instead, all of the girls corner Carrie in the locker room, jeering and throwing tampons at her. From that incident on, viewers are introduced to the appalling ignorance of the high school staff: Not only do the teachers not take Carrie's word seriously, but even Principal Morton (Stefan Gierasch) can't remember her first and last name. The only official to pity her is her gym teacher Miss Collins (Betty Buckley), who realises that Carrie was never taught how to deal with PMS. Determined not to have Carrie's feelings hurt again, she punishes the rest of the class with a whole week of brutal, boot camp athletics. If any girl refused to attend detention would be excluded from the senior prom.
Meanwhile, behind closed doors, poor Carrie is tortured and chastised by her mother (Piper Laurie), a straitlaced Christian fanatic who corrupts every incident in the Bible, blatantly accusing her daughter of being sinful. After hearing about her first period, Margaret White automatically assumes that Carrie is inflicted with the curse of blood, and that she is tempted by the Antichrist's lust. Forcing her to pray for strength, Margaret violently drags her helpless daughter into a tiny closet, where a gaunt effigy of Jesus stares into the dark void of nothingness. It seems that all hope is lost for this little girl. However, that changes later on. Through library research, she discovers that she possesses telekinetic powers: when she's angry or afraid, she can flip an ashtray off a desk, shatter a mirror, or make doors open and close unaided. Eventually, this is the weapon Carrie uses to fight back against her Mother's assault. Seeing Margaret as a horrible hypocrite, Carrie knew that her psychic ability has nothing to do with Lucifer's charms.
Seeking revenge, one of Carrie's most hateful bullies, a spoiled and nasty girl named Chris (Nancy Allen) cajoles her drunk boyfriend Billy (John Travolta) to play a sadistic prank on Carrie. On prom night, after Carrie and poet Tommy Ross (Willliam Katt) are crowned King and Queen, Chris pulls a string and dumps a bucket of pig's blood on her head. Filled with murderous rage, Carrie finally unleashes her telekenetic hatred upon the crowd of laughing spectators. With her cold and blank stare, she showers water from a firehose, electrocutes the microphone, and engulfs the entire school in flames. In perhaps one of the most shocking split-screen sequences in history, this night of terror is displayed through multiple perspectives while glowing a hellish red.
If you are seeking a horror classic for your DVD collection, I strongly recommend you purchase this movie, as well as "The Exorcist" and "The Evil Dead Trilogy."

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Summary: An Unforgettable Horror Film And Tragedy
Review: I am somewhat of a Brian DePalma fan and saw an edited version of the director's "Carrie" on CBS Network-television in 1978. I recently saw an uncut version of this film. "Carrie" is one of the greatest horror films and tragedies in movie history.

Socially awkward high school student Carrie White(Sissy Spacek) uses telekinetic powers to get back at her vicious classmates and religiously fanatical mother(Piper Laurie).

"Carrie" rivals "Dressed To Kill" as Brian DePalma's greatest thriller. This movie is the ultimate revenge fantasy for anyone who was picked on during their school days. Both Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie should have won Oscars for their magnificent performances. Spacek gives an unforgettable performance. Laurie is almost charismatic as the domineering and crazed Margaret White. This character offered the perfect comeback role for Laurie after her fifteen-year absence from the big screen. Nancy Allen's malicious Chris qualifies as one of the greatest villainous characters in movie history. DePalma made "Carrie" when he still knew how to make great movies. In recent years, DePalma has not only forgotten how to scare and shock viewers, but he has even forgotten how to make his audience feel genuine emotions. DePalma forces viewers to empathize with the pain and anguish of Carrie White. "Carrie" is a tragedy as well as a horror film. Perhaps no other film director has more realistically depicted adolescent cruelty than DePalma did in "Carrie." The shock conclusion will jolt viewers right out of their seats.

DePalma's "Carrie" is very well-recommended.

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Summary: King's Masterpiece on Film
Review: Carrie White is a strange girl. She is backwards, shunned, and ignorant of many things. She is a tragic figure as many of her problems are due to her upbringing at the hands of a religious single mother. But with advent of womanhood, Carrie starts to develop telekinesis. Amy Irving plays a schoolmate who starts to feel guilty at the way she has treated Carrie in the past and tries to help Carrie out.

But the help Amy provides may be too little too late as there are others in the school who do not feel the same guilt. In fact, they with to increase their bad treatment of Carrie.

The whole movie moves toward the senior prom and Carrie managing to attend ignorant of the plots against her. But as plots converge and Carrie gets targeted, her powers grow into a terrible sword of vengeance with Carrie striking down all she feels have ever wronged her.

In the end Carrie is truly a tragic character. Although she was filled with anger and vengeance, she also knows she has done wrong. Although different from the book, the ending is quite powerful.

The disk is packed with featurettes and interviews that really help to fill out the movie and the whole Carrie phenomenon.