Carrie

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Summary: stephen king's best story!
Review: this is the best stephen king movie ive ever seen.if you like his books and movies see this.it is a classic

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Summary: Makes Columbine look like an Easter Pageant
Review: Carrie ranks with the Exorcist as one of the all time great horror film classics. Steven King's best novel directed by Brian DePalma and starring my favorite actress, Sissy Spacek, the film shot in '76 shows what '70s high school is all about. The characters in the film are divided between essentially good (Carrie, Betty Buckley, Amy Irving, Tommy Ross) and essentially evil (Nancy Allen, John Travolta, Piper Laurie). The film has some important messages to it. One is how ironic it is that religious fanaticism could be the basis for evil, which this film and much of human history proves. Another is how "group think" can easily devolve into evil, in this case the high school in-crowd where you must be evil to be accepted. 3rd, the most purely good character in the film is Carrie herself, a victim of the evil of her mother and classmates...not too unbelievable a scenario for high school outcasts. One note on the widely misinterpreted prom scene: as everyone who's read the book knows, everyone's not laughing at Carrie, only the girl in on the prank is. Everyone else is only imagined to be laughing by Carrie. Finally the film is a statement against the in-crowd vs. outcast mentality pervasive in high schools and society in general. Columbine and all the other high school tragedies highlight this. It's time to change the oppressive school environment before many armed Carries recieve one taunt too many.

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Summary: This movie ROCKS!
Review: High school girl who's sick and tired of everybody picking on her, gets revenge as someone ruins her prom. Though the build up on this movie is poor, Sissy and Piper make a great pair of psychopaths. The mass murder scene at the end is cool too. Popcorn, Pepsi and Pizza.

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Summary: Cult Classic
Review: I hadn't even heard of the movie, Carrie until 1996, while flipping channels. I watched the film. I was impressed. It's one of those movies many people, including young teens can relate to. I myself, was like Carrie. I was very mousey and shy, and never talked to anyone. I was always being made fun of, and never well-liked. When I saw the film, I saw those characteristics in my own self, and wished I could do what she had done. It's one of the very few movies that can show the many ways in which anger can manifest. Sissy Spacek was nominated for an academy award for her performance, but she didn't win. Sissy Spacek is a great actress. There are many elements that are shown in the film: Growing up, going to High school, being in or being an outcast, and religion. Piper Laurie did a great job as a religious fanatic. When I saw her start raving on and on I just sat there. There are people like Magaret White that exist even today. This is one great film, it's a cult classic. I long for the day when a film company, such as Anchor Bay, will release a special edition of this film....someday. This is one movie that will be shown every Halloween, you won't regret buying it, it's worth every penny.

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Summary: STEPHEN KING PROVES AGAIN THAT HE IS KING OF HORROR!
Review: Based upon the novel, Carrie is about a young girl just now going into her period. Everyone hates her at school and starts to call her "Creepy Carrie." Soon, Carrie starts to get out of control, and before she relaizes the strange supernatural powers forming inside her. She starts to make things float in thin air. But before she can control her anger over the townspeople, things start to get out of hand. A movie with suspensful twists and turns that only can be thought up in the mind of Stephen King.

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Summary: A horror movie with electriying performances
Review: As much as I would like to say about the best values of Stephen King, I will only concentrate on Carrie. Numerous times I have watched the film, and nevertheless have yet been tired of it. This movie displays elements of empathy, sympathy, horror, torture, and love, and altogether are combined to create an emotional impact brought out to surpass other people's thoughts. Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie not only enlightened the screen with emotional, magnificent performances, but also they received two 1976 Best Actress Oscar nominations to prove it. Overall, if you are looking for a combining of genres to satisfy your evening, Carrie is the #1 Choice to make!

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Summary: sensitivity verses you know...
Review: Carrie White was under my bed and in my head in 76, and she's been a somewhay semi-permanent fixture ever since, though much less in the last few years.. For those who are fans of Carrie you'd know why. In my case Carrie's essential innocence and the loss of it at the hands of peer pressure/failure to conform, are key elements of the fragmentation of the most sensitive members of our society, the ones that are most vulnerable to persecution are they who are most likely to be targeted. We all know the end result for the effect of this Carrie and those around her, but in the real world this soulmurder commited on the 'ALTAR OF CONFORMITY' and it is shattering to the development of an integrated person.

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Summary: Carrie
Review: I read the novel and then watch the movie. I realized that you can not put everything in a movie. Their were many key scene's left out of this movie it doesn't show any of the destruction that was down to the town. Sue Snell was not at the prom but she was at home according to the book. The P.E. teacher seem in the book to feel sorry for Carrie the entire movie unlike was shown in the movie. Carrie mother died in the book by Carrie stoping her heart. Also Carrie father died the movie says he ran off with a woman. Carrie died in front of a bar and was found by Sue Snell. Known of the investagation was shown to try explain what happen either. I think if you just watch the movie with out reading the book you say its a ok movie. I think they rewrote the movie because they didn't have enough money and try to set up some sort of sequel. Because if you went by the book their be know sequel.

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Summary: I'll drink to that!
Review: ...as Mrs. Snell would say, in regard to the many five-stars for this movie. And why not? It's simply the best high school movie ever made, besides being a horror classic, and there are so many classic moments among the character interactions that it's almost besides the point that this is one of the scariest films ever made (although dePalma stole the great closing bit with the hand from John Boorman's "deliverance," and the split-screen effect doesn't really work for the prom sequence). One of the things I love about the movie is that you're never really sure, even by the end, how far the conspiracy went: why do Tommy and Sue keep signalling to each other and smirking in the scene with Betty Buckley if they're really on Carrie's side? Finally, it's got some of the best gallows humor ever: from Carrie's telekinetic pushing adie of her mother before the prom (as she nervously, sadly explains why she's going to go no matter what her mother thinks), to the beginning sequence with the principal who keeps calling her "Cassie," to the great push-up sequence with the girls in the gym class. Watch it over and over again--it's worth it.

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Summary: A Horror Classic
Review: When I first heard about the movie,it really didnt catch my attention.But my mom convinced me that it was a really good movie.So I decided that the next time it came in tv I would sit down and watch it.Just so happends it came on that night.I loved it.I recommend this movie to anyone.This signifies what a real horror movie is all about.