Carrie

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Summary: Do You Have A Date For The Prom Yet?
Review: The 1976 film, based on the novel by Stephen King, remains a classic. It may not follow the book to a tee but the film is still a winner. Carrie (Sissy Spacek) is an outcast in her High School. She is often ridiculed by classmates and has no friends to rely on for help. She fares no better at home, because of her very strict fundamentalist mother (Piper Laurie) When Carrie is unexpectedly asked to the prom, by a popular Football star, (William Katt) she has no idea what awaits her...The film is highlighted by terrific and memorable performances from Spacek and Laurie. Spacek with her puppy dog eyes tortured delivery, makes Carrie, a true tragic figure. While Laurie's intensity as the mother, will grab you every time she is on screen. Director De Palma brings out the best to make it all come together. Co-Stars Nancy Allen, Amy Irving, and John Travolta are ok too as they round out the cast. The 70s style clothing is fun to see, (What were they thinking?) but does little else, except help viewers to realize when the film came out.

The Special Edition DVD has a wonderful series of retrospective documentaries that feature cast and crew. Suprisingly, actor John Travolta, is absent from all of this. Maybe this is a film he'd rather forget. Still, seeing everyone else is a real boon. Sadly, there is no commetary track, but the info provided elsewhere is the kind of stuff that makes the process of filmming a movie facinating to me. It also includes a photo montage and a typical theatrical trailer. Overall, not a bad DVD, if you are a fan, just a rental for all others, either way, recommended

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Summary: Does Brian DePalma have a heart?
Review: Technically, this movie is superb - it's just plain interesting to watch. The final scenes showing Carrie's descent into monster-dom are terrifying - but, in a way, that's the problem with this movie. The movie doesn't give you any way to feel about what you're seeing except to notice how well it's made - to be horrified (and maybe a little excited by?) all the mayhem. King's book is quite different - he played his story as a tragedy; he was going for a sense of sadness at what had happened. You get the feeling from the book that, although no one is exactly innocent (not even Carrie!), everyone played a part in creating a horrible situation that unexpectedly grew bigger than any one character. You can't, in other words, reduce the book by blaming Carrie, her mother, the school bullies, etc., since they all only played a role. In the book, the telekinesis thing is just the catalyst which allows King to meditate on how quickly things spin out of our control - with such disastrous results.
All DePalma cares about is showing off cool camera techniques - while bullies and those who actually tried to help Carrie are mercilessly killed. This movie asks nothing of the viewer but to enjoy the technique; King asked us to grieve over the instability of our lives, and the (limited) role we play in it. The book was better than the movie - or the DVD, which adds nothing to the original product.

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Summary: A DARK CINDERELLA STORY
Review: They shouldn't have teased her.

They shouldn't have tormented her.

They should have left her alone and begged her forgiveness.

But now it's too late and they all must pay.

Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a shy little teenage girl who wears her hair long, mostly to hide her face, and doesn't have any friends. According to her peers, she's a Plain Jane Nobody who can't even hit the volleyball right in gym class. What they don't know about her, of course, is that she's telekinetic.

While Carrie is harassed at school, she has an even worse home life. Her stern, wild-haired religious fanatic of a mother forces her twisted brand of piousness upon Carrie, not allowing her to engage in the "sinfulness" of dating and making her pray for her "sins" daily. Momma doesn't even tell Carrie about the facts of life or the changes her body will undergo during puberty.

In fact, Carrie's telekinesis seems to have been triggered by the stress of not knowing what was happening to her when she was visited by her first menstrual period, experienced in innocence in the shower room of the high school gym. Thinking she's bleeding to death, Carrie flings herself into the throng of already-dressed girls, pleading for help. "Wanna tampon, Carrie?" sneers Chris Hargensen, the beautiful Popular Girl with the perfect blonde hairdo, makeup and figure. The other girls laugh and Carrie cowers in the shower stall as she is bombarded with sanitary napkins. "Plug it up! Plug it up!" chant the other girls, continuing to toss and throw and giggle. Finally Miss Collins, the gym teacher, rushes into the locker room to see what all the commotion is about.

All the girls--except Carrie of course--are given one week's detention as punishment for their prank. Penalty for skipping detention: refusal of their prom tickets.

Fed up with detention, Chris Hargensen marches off--and is barred from attending the prom. Enraged, she decides to get her revenge, with the help of her thuggish boyfriend, Billy Nolan. "Billy, Billy...ohhh, Billy, I just HATE Carrie White!"

At home, to some eerily tinkling background music, Carrie drifts down the stairs to Momma, who proclaims: "You're a woman now." Momma's punishment for Carrie's "sinful" menstruation: locking the poor girl, kicking and screaming, inside a candlelit closet to pray for atonement all night before a statue of a crucified Jesus.

Meanwhile, another girl--Sue Snell--feeling guilty for participating in the shower room prank, coerces her boyfriend Tommy Ross, the most popular guy in the entire school, to ask Carrie out to the prom. Carrie eventually accepts, against Momma's wishes; Momma mumbles prayers while Carrie makes her prom dress.

When Tommy actually takes Carrie to the prom, he discovers that the ugly duckling has become a beautiful swan: her mouth aglow with shimmery pink lipstick, her once-lank long hair turned back in a curl, her body clad in a silken white sheath, Carrie is breathtaking and we can feel her joy as she dances with Tommy, the lights growing brighter and brighter as the two of them twirl round and round, giving a feeling of bliss spinning out of control.

Sue Snell, the Good Samaritan, has managed to sneak into the prom and hides behind the King and Queen thrones to watch Carrie's enchantment, growing ever more wondrous and happy when she sees that Tommy and Carrie have been voted King and Queen of the prom. Sue notices a cord running up over the thrones, snaking up to a metal bucket of something perched on the beam overhanging the precise spot where the Queen will be standing. She traces the other end to the crawlspace beneath where, silhouetted behind a crepe paper curtain, a hand eagerly holds the rope.

What happens next is too terrible to mention and is best left to the imagination. But that bucket above is the key to a fiery horror from which no one escapes--not even Chris Hargensen, who orchestrated the evil affair. Only Sue manages to survive. And at Carrie's home, Momma has turned the place into a candlelit church and is lurking menacingly in the shadows with vengeance on her mind.

CARRIE is a very good movie--sad, terrifying, and extremely fast-paced. After watching it, one comes away as if he or she has been through an emotional wringer--and all because of a sad little teenage girl who could make objects move with the sheer force of her mind.

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Summary: I can see your dirty pillows, everyone will.
Review: "They're called breasts mama, every woman has em". This film is not only filled with great lines but it is scary in a mental sort of way and satirical to boot. This DVD is what DVD should be, not bare-boned but full of great making of stuff. The only negative is I truly wanted to see the deleted scene of Carrie as a little girl and the stone storm.

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Summary: "There all gonna laugh at you" "Eve was Weak SAY IT!!
Review: this is a really good movie sissy is a wonderful actress
this movie is a great film, it relativily stays close to the plot line in the film. The new TV 2002 carrie was stupid compaired to this classic. I watch this movie around halloween every year.

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Summary: Stephen King's first and best. DVD is very good.
Review: "Carrie" is still the best Stephen King horror film yet made. The story, I think, is enough to put any sensitive teen off. This is because the cruelty of the high school students is realistically portrayed. Sissy Spacek is superb in her Oscar-nominated role as the title character. There are many scenes that scare me so much, like the opening shower scene and the prom. There are also sad moments and Pino Dinaggio's score is beautiful. The DVD includes two wonderful documentaries on the film, with cast and crew interviews. They are really happy to talk about the film and tell some funny stories. I recommend this film to any fans of horror dramas.

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Summary: One of Stephen King's best
Review: I remember seeing a story about Stephen King and hearing about how this story came to be. He started to write it and, thinking it wasn't good, threw it out. His wife later found it in the waste paper basket and read it. She begged him to finish it because she felt it was great. And history was made. I have never read a Stephen King book. For some reason I find it highly difficult to get through, but I am an avid fan of the movie versions and after seeing them I study the books to see how they add up. However I feel that a movie will never be as good as the book because there is so much you can do in a book that can't be conveyed on the big screen.
Stephen King has set a new standard for the horror flick, and he did it with this movie. Sissy Spacek is an amazing actress, why she has not won more Oscars or made more movies is beyond me. She is a talented and very down to earth woman. She, over the years, has not changed or "sold out" in hollywood. Unlike many of her fellow costars. If you see any Stephen King movie, let it be this one. I also highly recommend: "The Stand", "Storm of the Century", "Rose Red", "The Langoliers", "Thinner", "It", "The Tommy Knockers", "The Golden Years" and my personal absolute favorite "Drama" of his "The Green Mile". But do, see all his films. I just highly recommend these first. Here are the rest of his movies that I can remember off the top of my head...
"Cujo", "Pet Semetary", "Christine", "Maximum Overdrive", "Needful Things", "Silver Bullet", "Salem's Lot", "Firestarter", "Misery", "Dolores Claiborne", "Hearts in Atlantis", "Creep Show I, II, & III.", "Cat's Eye", "Sleepwalkers", "The Running Man", & "The Shining" (The Kubrick version was okay, but it lost a lot of the book, I recommend you see the newer version the one that came out in 99-00.) That's it. -Willow

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Summary: One of King's best !
Review: I give this movie 4-stars, due to the fact that its REALLY scary ! Too bad they don't make good home-made horror like this anymore .

The film itself, focuses on young Carrie(a gifted person) who has the power of telekinesis . Later, Carrie snaps and begins to use her psychic-forces on her cruel classmates . Stephen King did quite a good job at this one, and the acting is incredibly creepy !!

Kinda' reminds me of the movie "Firestarter", which was coincidently written by the same author ! THIS MOVIE THOUGH, IS GUARENTEED TO GIVE YOU NIGHTMARES !!!!

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Summary: The Best Stephen King movie
Review: I have a theory about films made from books. You can't do a story justice if its longer than a novella. Otherwise you have to leave stuff out. Stephen King's first novel is really a novella, padded out with some news reports on the Black Prom to pad it out to novel length. Which makes it perfect for movie adaptation.

Boasting Oscar-nominated performances by Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie and early performances by P. J. Soles, William Katt, Amy Irving and John Travolta, "Carrie" is high school hell.

Hell for outcast Carrie White (Spacek). Ridiculed at school and harangued at home by an extremely religious mother (Laurie), she has no place to turn for help.

It can't end well. Not in a Stephen King story. He's been through high school twice: once as a student and once as a teacher. Evidently it was one time too many.

The DVD has some fine added features and interviews with cast members, all of which are amazed to be talking about this little film 20 years later.

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Summary: the best stephen king movie i have ever seen in my life!
Review: i give carrie 5 stars because sissy spacek (carrie) looks like my mother! a lot! the only part i dont like in the movie is at the begining when carrie gets her peried! and the other reason why i am giveing it 5 stars is because it has a great story behind it! i have rented it a thousand times and i enjoy it thats why i give it 5 stars!!!!! sincerley undera fisher.