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Carrie (1976)
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This terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel was directed by shock maestro Brian De Palma for maximum, no-holds-barred effect. Sissy Spacek stars as Carrie White, the beleaguered daughter of a religious kook (Piper Laurie) and a social outcast tormented by her cruel, insensitive classmates. When her rage turns into telekinetic powers, however, school's out in every sense of the word. De Palma's horrific climax in a school gym lingers forever in the memory, though the film is also built upon Spacek's remarkable performance and Piper Laurie's outlandishly creepy one. John Travolta has a small part as a thug, De Palma's...
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| Carrie Movie Review by Jarrod (5/9/2008) |
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'Carrie' was a breakthrough for Stephen King as his first big bestseller and for director Brian De Palma, as his first major box office hit. The transition from page to screen occurred with alarming rapidity; the film was released in 1976, the book was published in 1974, so De Palma and writer Lawrence D Cohen obviously...
(complete Carrie review by Jarrod)
I am sure that I've seen this film before, but I watched it again to see how Stephen King managed to write a story that captured teen-aged angst amidst bullying and popularity contests.
Sis Spacek was simply incredible and it is no surprised that she got the first Academy Award nomination for a horror film. Piper Laurie...
(complete Carrie review by Movie Addict)
| Carrie Movie Review by BillyBob (2/9/2008) |
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About a year before seeing the movie 'Carrie' I had read the Stephen King novel of the same name. What a relief it was that the Carrie character in the movie wasn't the same as the one in the novel. King had created a despicable character in his over-long novel. King had made Carrie so drab and grotesque that you could...
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| Carrie Movie Review by Bobby B (1/30/2008) |
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Max Schreck. Nosferatu. Lon Chaney. The Phantom of the Opera. Boris Karloff. Frankenstein. Bela Lugosi. Dracula. Claude Rains. The Invisible Man. Mia Farrow. Rosemary's Baby. Sigourney Weaver. Alien. Acting is the most underrated element of a quality scare flick. All of these classic horror films have at...
(complete Carrie review by Bobby B)
| Carrie Movie Review by Terrence (5/13/2007) |
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The movie "Carrie" is probably flawed. Heck the book is probably flawed. Even Stephen King thinks the book is flawed. But the material in the hands of Brian De Palma turns into one of the most effective horror films of all-time.
The movie opens with the standard cheesy slasher flick chicks getting naked in the shower...
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