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Summary: Not as impressed as by the sequel
Review: After watching the sequel, The Rage: Carrie 2, I had to watch this movie to see if it impressed me as much as the sequel did. While neither rank among the scary movies of all times, both, this movie and it's sequel, kept my eyes glued to the screen to see what happened next.
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Summary: All flaws erased by Spacek's indelible lead performance.
Review: Sometimes slow-moving, often with questionable cinematic techniques, Carrie still manages to stand tall as the yardstick by which all Stephen King adaptations are measured thanks to the combination of King's unforgettable lead character and Sissy Spacek's classic performance as that character.Brian De Palma has always been quite daring with his techniques, resulting in moments of great exhilaration when he succeeds, but more often show-offy distraction when he fails. In Carrie we see both at work. The split-screen he uses for the climactic scene of Carrie's blind wrath merely serves to kill much of the tension and cause to no end of confusion; though I applaud the attempt, ordinary parallel editing would have been much more real-time and frightening. (One may notice that for the key shots, De Palma has to revert back to a single-image frame) On the other hand, the four cuts he does when Carrie and "Chris" come face to face are brilliant, like a staggered zoom, but with ten times the visceral effect. All technical scrutiny aside, this is a performer-based movie, and Spacek is damn near inscrutable in this role. The humliiations of being an outcast in a high-school world, the connection she has with Ms. Collins, the sheer joy of relating to Tommy Ross at the prom, the blind wrath and avenging-angel trance during the telekinetic sequences, and the raw pain when her own mother turns on her -- Spacek nails every moment, resulting in probably the single most cathartic and sympathetic horror-film protagonist and lead performance I can remember. So even as I am dismayed at the parts when the narrative lags behind, when De Palma beats his "suspense sequences" to death (the pig's blood over her head...the suspense would have been perfectly intact with about half a minute cut out of that sequence), I forgive the film. After all, as the title suggests, the film *is* its lead character, and this lead character is blessed with a stellar performance.
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Summary: It's a Classic
Review: Carrie was a Greatttt movie. Sissy Spacek made a perfect nerd. The settings and lighting made the effect of terror sooo real.
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Summary: Big Carrie Fan
Review: This was Stephen King's first novel and the first book of his that they ever made into a movie. After 25 years I still consider it one of his best, and it's my personnal favorite, and to think that when he was writing it he had thrown it in the trash because he thought it was no good. Thank God his wife Tabitha dug it out of the trash and after reading it and liking it made him finish it and send it to the publisher. If you are a Stephen King fan and haven't seen Carrie yet run out and get it. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Rest in pieces
Review: A high school girl who has been picked on all her life by her classmates and tormented by her zealot mother discovers she can control her telekinetic powers and then after a harmless prank goes down at the senior prom, she doesn't accept any appologies. What looks like a first rate thriller mixes in too many generational ingredients and becomes a blubbering melodramatic pity pic (despite the massacre scenes in the gymnasium and the kitchen). Spacek is great, however, and Laurie makes a nice psychopath.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This wasn't just a horror movie, it touches you on many more levels. A lot of it is emotional. Carrie grows up with no father and a religious fanatic for a mother. Her classmates are extremely cruel to her, and many of us can relate to that. Carrie's life is a mess, and she's painfully shy and withdrawn. When the good looking and popular Tommy Ross asks her to the prom (after his girlfriend convinced him to), Carrie runs away at first, thinking it is some kind of trick. When she finally does accept, we see her start to come out of her shell a little bit. She makes a gown for the prom, buys makeup, and starts to get really excited. Her first date seems to be a dream come true, as Tommy is so nice to her and makes her feel special. When they are voted King and Queen of the prom, it looks as though Carrie's life has turned around completely, or so she thought. I won't give away the horror of what happens next, as that would spoil the movie for people who haven't seen it. All I will say is that you won't forget it.
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Summary: HAUNTING CLASSIC
Review: CARRIE shocked the living hell out of me when I was 17 years old. I could not get it out of my mind for years -- and have seen it at least 25 times since then. It does have perhaps the most copied (and effective) movie-horror-ending of all time, but it is the haunting performance of Sissy Spacek that gets under your skin. It is a spectacularly moving film, even more unsettling because it is filled with sly wit and comedy. Yet, as in TITANIC, you know something really BAD is going to happen. By the way, William Katt resembles a young Redford here, and, along with the other young luminaries, delivers a knockout performance. Donaggio's score is chillingly effective, especially in the Carrie-Tommy dance, featuring DePalma's trademark dizzying camera. It makes sense to me in some twisted way that Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford (FAME) could visualize and hear a musical in this story (B'way's CARRIE The Musical, 1988 -- w/Betty Buckley as Mrs. White this time around, the original gym teacher in the film)-- the sum of its parts is infinitely grander than one might expect in a "horror movie". MUCH better than King's novel, which has its own macabre voice. You will fall in love with Carrie too.
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Summary: disappointed
Review: my life is horror movies, although lots of nudity and a good story the acting was bad
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Summary: A Touching, Beautiful Film!
Review: Well, I know it's a horror movie, but even though the ending is thrilling and awesome to behold, I love this movie for everything that happens BEFORE Carrie snaps. Spacek does such an INCREDIBLE job portraying a broken, shy 16 year old (at 30!), that when her character finally starts to come out of her shell, I always get all emotional! The scene where Tommy teaches her how to dance is one of the most achingly romantic things I've ever seen on film EVER. (I wish I could get that song) I'm right there with her as she suppresses her disbelief and excitement to get up the nerve to dance with him. It's so beautiful that it makes what happens next so much more horrible!
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Summary: An outstanding movie
Review: This was a great movie.The ending was really scary.I think that this was one of Stephan Kings best movies yet!
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