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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 future wife, Nancy Allen, is his girlfriend, and Amy Irving makes her screen debut as one of the girls giving Carrie a hard time.--Tom Keogh
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Carrie (Sissy Spacek) is a gawky, unloved teenager whose awakening sexuality is at odds with her puritanical mother's fanatical teachings. Physically abused at home and shunned at school, an unexpected Prom invitation seems to be Carrie's first chance at happiness. But when the Prom night ends in a vicious practical joke, Carrie's despair manifests itself in a fiery telekinetic revenge. Brian De Palma's breakthrough psycho-sexual horror yarn is adapted from a Stephen King novel.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By "duzben"
Format:VHS Tape
This psycholoically thrilling ride of a horror movie will have you in tears, laughing and feeling sorry for carrie.
Carrie is an isolated teenager, depressed and lacking self confidence. She has no friends and only THIS is how she releases her awesome power of telekinses. This is horror has emotion, fun and a great plot. This is one of the best Stephen king films and i urge you to see it if you haven't already. Sissy Spaeck is perfect for the part, as i think no one else could portray such vunrableity as her. This is worth every star i give it as i think anyone will be able to enjoy this genius movie.
Carrie is an isolated teenager, depressed and lacking self confidence. She has no friends and only THIS is how she releases her awesome power of telekinses. This is horror has emotion, fun and a great plot. This is one of the best Stephen king films and i urge you to see it if you haven't already. Sissy Spaeck is perfect for the part, as i think no one else could portray such vunrableity as her. This is worth every star i give it as i think anyone will be able to enjoy this genius movie.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I was looking through my TV guide for something to watch and this film automatically stood out to me. When i told my mum I was going to watch it she recommended it to me, which really surprised me because my mum is not usually a horror movie fan. I am so glad that I did notice this film because it is one of the best films ive seen recently, which considering the films i have watched recently, (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, LA Confidential, The Shining and other reknown films) is a really amazing feat. Well it may not be as good as One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, but what is? I dont think that it is fair to compare carrie to anything outside of the horror genre so I will say it is up there in the top three horror films I have seen. To sum up that paragraph , VERY VERY VERY GOOD!!!
With regards to the film itself, I was unsure how to feel towards the main character, but ultimately I felt a great deal of sympathy for her. Sissy Spacek's portrayl of the naive and bullied Carrie is truely amazing, and considering she got an oscar nomination for it it proves how remarkable it was, as horror films tend not to be acknowledge by the Academy. This film left me with a great deal to think about and left me feeling tremendously sorry for Carrie and her eventual victims.
The final scenes in this film however are what set it apart from other films. Usually horror films tend to have violence for the majority of the way through, but in this film the beginning is very quiet in terms of violence/horror and until the last 20 or so minuites could be from a film in the drama genre. The contrast is stark and disturbing. The effects are remarkable and considering the age of the film are still very powerful images. The film is worth buying for the ending alone, it is that damned good.
To sum up this entire blabbering on by me, if you like horror films are psycological films, like me, BY THIS FILM NOW.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
There are creepy people all around us. Let us not call them creepy but call them as the mystic ones. Carrie is a lonely girl. She has a mother having terrible psychological dilemmas mixing up with her own belief in religion.Carrie is the plaything of her school friends and at the same time she is being brought up by a very strict mother.
Meanwhile, Carrie starts understanding herself, her capabilities of telkinesis and she starts using them.
One night, she is invited to the prom night and she is very happy and shy. The prom night scene is very well and I liked it very much. Everything seems to be just fine and slow motion recording is around, then something bad happens and Carrie does lots of bad things to all people in there...
This film is full of loneliness, religious suppression, family portraits and teenager relations. I liked this film very much and believe you'll like too.
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Classic
This is a classic horror movie, well worth a watch. I would highly re comend this dvd to any one.
Published 9 days ago by placebo89
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Classic
I remember watching this movie in the cinema when I was a young teenager. The atmosphere was spine-tingling and the ending had everyone jumping in their seats. Read more
Published 28 days ago by kehs
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Scary Carrie
I love this film-I totally empathise with Carrie and I would have liked her to triumph at the end :( nice little scary touch at the last also to ensure you don't sleep soundly in... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Cujo
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'CLASSIC CHILLER'
the 70's gave us many controversial and disturbing movies, the censors had
become more leniant allowing stronger material, this movie surely among the
best of that... Read more
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Published 2 months ago by rbmusicman
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Carrie
This is an amazing film. Brian De Palma created a masterpiece. I bought this film after reading Stephen King's book and although some parts are different, it's a great watch with... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Hanif
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I received this dvd thanks
I received this dvd with thanks in time for xmas for my daughter and we only watched it last week it was very good
Published 3 months ago by sharon dodds
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carrie
I liked it not like carrie 2 through it was a film to get just because it was a stehen king film
Published 3 months ago by val
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic American horror at it's finest
Great film, loved it the first time I saw it and still one of my favorite horror movies 25 years on. Cinematography acting and effects superb.
Published 3 months ago by Marie Piekarski
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My daughter is weird
My daughter is weird we bought the original steven King book at a boot sale and she read it cover to cover not bad for a dyslexic teenager who just does not find reading easy so... Read more
Published 4 months ago by knotty boy
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Good film
We've all seen the film, item as described, as second had DVDs go this is exactly what you would expect
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