Carrie(1976).Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn't realise is that Carrie is ... gifted, and you really don't want to get her angry. Written byMark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>... Synopsis Carrie(1976)
Movie Title: Carrie(1976)
Run Time: 98 min
Rating: 7.4 / 10
Genres: Horror |Thriller
Release Date: 3 November 1976 (USA)
Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Stephen King (novel),Lawrence D. Cohen... and other credits
Actor: Sissy Spacek,Piper Laurie,Amy Irving
Youthful energy. That's what this is -- and what it is about.
Spacek, King and Depalma are all at their most committed exuberance. Sometimes callow, but sometimes so rawly honest one often tingles quite apart from the story. See it on this basis alone. DePalma's camera has a sense of dance -- Scorcese does too, but DePalma's is more emotional. Spacek is so clean in her acting that her ability frightens. How strange it went away, like a poltergism.
The story has a haunting tone, also centered on youth and yearning. Menarche as a horror, the innocent acceptance/fear of the basest religion, the brash director intelligently spoofing Hitchcock. Odd mix that, so an odd and intriguing experience.
