No doubt the ending to "Carrie" was what inspired the ending to the original "Friday The 13th", since the ending to that movie is still quite scary, especially when seeing it for the first time. ;)
Same here. I first saw it in 1976 as a 14 year old. Jumped right out of my seat. Is it my imagination or does the current showing slow down that hand coming out of the ground?
After really watching this movie, I found that Carrie's religious fanatic mother was the "monster"; not Carrie. In fact, I found Carrie to be sweet, kind, understanding, charming, naturally beautiful and quite normal, considering the smothering hold her mother kept on her. Unfortunately, she was misunderstood, thanks to her mother's influence on her.
If you read the book you'd find out that it isn't just the mother who was a "monster" but almost the whole town, that's why in the 2013 remake Carrie basically takes out the whole town not just the high school
Piper Laurie owned that role!! She was frightening. Also their house added to how horrible her home situation was. We all have that one friend or that one house in the neighborhood that was kind of strange and old-school but this one.... it's scared me every time she was in her house I got such a bad feeling. It really made you empathize with her life. And another thing that made the whole thing at the prom so scary was the way the lights turned red, the whole atmosphere changed... you heard this electricity...... hard to explain but it wasn't just this girl standing on a stage making things happen.... gymnasium became her anger filled, controlling, Revenge world it was just horrifying. ....brilliant, brilliant movie one of the best!
@@ooooooooooooooops, yes, indeed, Piper was more than brilliant in the role of Margaret White! This movie is a masterpiece; one of the best "horror" films ever. The entire prom scene was perfection! The camera shot of Tommy and Carrie swirling to "I Never Dreamed Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me"; the way some of Carrie's peers finally seemd to accept her; the way it seemed Tommy was falling for Carrie. . .all of this before the big doom!
at the end when the mom was walking around with that knife looking all crazy in her eyes that scared the shit out of me. then of course the hand that comes out the grave.
I watched an audition tape of him as Han Solo (it's probably still on RU-vid somewhere). Truthfully, he's about the only actor besides Ford I could easily imagine in the role (though given that he's about the same age as Mark Hamill and much younger than Ford, it would have been a rather different take on the character).
Carrie, to me, was never a horror movie. It was always a narrative of just how cruel kids can be to each other. Even tho I'm 51 now, it's still very difficult for me to watch for this reason. Think I was 9 or 10 when I first saw it.
I walked by the house they used in the film every day on my way to school. It was all boarded up and of course we all thought it was haunted. The prom scenes also were filmed in the girls gym of my high school.
I love this version above all others, thus far. And the 70s kitsch is appropriate, as the tale was set then. Another interesting bit of trivia: Piper Laurie and Sissy Spacek teamed up again for THE GRASS HARP (1995), only this time they played sisters instead of mother/daughter. 🌱 Thanks again, Minty!
Even all the members of the Justice League, The Avengers, and the Watchmen combined couldn't stop those two together! Might have a bit more luck adding the X-Men into the mix though.
funny how this and "The Exorcist" nabbed Oscar nominations for Best Actress (Sissy Spacek), as well as Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, and the late Jason Miller. oh, and Sigourney Weaver for "Aliens" too. see guys? it is true that horror movies can garner Oscar nominations for those major categories
“EVE Was Weak! First Sin Was Intercourse! First Comes The Blood Then Come The Boys! Like Dogs All Wonderin’ Where That Smells Comin’ From. I Can See Your Dirty Pillows.”-Carrie’s Mom
[Margaret (Carrie)] Bow your head and pray, woman And God made Eve from the rib of Adam And Eve was weak, and loosed the raven on the world (Mama, it's not my fault) and the Raven was called sin And God visited Eve with a curse And the curse was the curse of blood Say it woman And God made Eve from Adam's Rib And Eve was weak. (Mama, how could I know?) And Eve was weak And Eve was weak. (Why didn't you tell me?) And God made Eve to bear the curse The curse of blood, (It's not a curse.) The curse of blood. (Ms. Gardner said it's something all girls go through.) The curse of blood. (You should have told me!) You're a woman now! Pray to heaven for your wicked soul!
Bleh, I think it was just more that her mother's crazy parenting left her confused and falling hopelessly behind everyone else. If anything, I think she seemed kind of mature and better able to keep herself grounded in reality despite her mother's influence than you might expect from most in that situation. Like she was very self-aware that she needed to change the direction of her life because it was causing too much damage but despite her best efforts, she didn't really have a chance at functioning normally in society. It's hard enough for most people being young when choices probably matter more than at any other time but you paradoxically have the least experience to be able to choose wisely or have a constructive perspective on things, but then she was left with a mother who didn't even tell her that periods were a thing and no social circle to fill in these kind of gaps so she was trapped in a vicious cycle.
I think that Carrie explores such universal themes that it resonates as much today as it did in 1976. It has so much going for it, including amazing performances, that it rises above the datedness of its production.
Yes... tbh I can even imagine him as Indiana Jones and it still working. Not like Tom Selleck, where Tom Selleck is cool but I don't want him as Indiana Jones.
Lennox Mate originally, Harrison Ford was working as a carpenter building the sets on Star Wars in the early days of the casting and was only brought in to read the lines of Han Solo for the scenes involving the character George Lucas originally didn't plan to have Harrison Ford as Han Solo due to having him in "American Graffiti" earlier before and had originally planned on having a good chunk of the primary characters, with the exception of Obi-Wan Kenobi, being played by unknown actors
GMTA. I just wrote this more or less in another thread. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that he's the same age as Mark Hamill and much younger than Ford, so it would have been a different take on the character, as part of the Ford/Hamill dynamic was that of the young naive farmboy and the older, more weathered spacefarer.
the only other actor i can think of who could play Han Solo ..the way Ford played it was Dennis Quaid ...though Russell would have still been good second choice ..but i would have had (in hindsight) Quaid on that list
Thank you for doing one of my favorite films! I agree on Carrie 2. I really enjoy that film. The tattoo growing on her skin was a bit odd, not well explained or foreshadowed, but at the same time, when you think about how important that tattoo was as a symbol of her friendship with her best friend, it becomes a bit more understandable, to me, as a sign of how over the edge she has been pushed. These are the same people who were the direct cause of the death of her friend, and the last thing she has of her friend now is that tattoo. How better to show her pain and loss (both of innocence and the renewed pain of the loss of her friend) than by having the tattoo, the symbol of her friendship, tear across her skin?
I think this movie was my first introduction to the brilliancy of SK. My mother introduced it to me at an inappropriately young age. I'll be forever grateful.
Bought Carrie quite by accident, in 1975. Had no idea who the author was, but the story line intrigued me. Best decision I ever made. It changed my reading profile completely and gave me my favourite author. Like his excellent novels, Stephen King has enhanced my world. Cissy was lucky she wasn’t typecast by her perfect performance of Carrie. She was stellar in Coal Miner’s Daughter.
Number 11: The German Title was "Carrie - des Satan's jüngste Tochter" (Satan's yougest Daughter) which... does not really make sense actually but is an interesting suggestion to Carrie's origin.
Thank you for mentioning Carrie the musical, a lot don’t know about it becoming a musical. Also you mentioned Heathers the musical you good sir get a cookie 🍪
For some reason I remember this book well...sitting on a shelf at the local Giant grocery store I bought it and read the novel in two days. Very easy read but LOVED IT !!
This reminds me of a boy me and my friends use to bully a lot in high school. We completely ruined his self-esteem and now he is a total loser. I have a very nice life now and sometimes I see the poor boy in my neighborhood walking around in silence. For some reason he does not hold any resentment and always says hello to me when he sees me. I am so happy he didn't become a serial killer or something.
Minty- you deserve SOOO many more subscribers. Way better than Nostalgia Critic (who oddly seems to only review new movies nowadays that no one could possibly be nostalgic for yet). He's got a couple million subscribers. You're second to Cinema Sins- they got almost 9 million- but you come out with more content, esp. of movies I'm interested in. Lots of 70s, 80s, 90s movies that I love. I think Cinema Sins is great but they need to do older films as well & seem to rarely come out with vids. I feel like you should have AT LEAST a million subscribers.
There's an epilogue in the book; it shows life happening after the destruction. Moving vans, funerals, graduation of remaining seniors. It also showed people trying to cash in on the tragedy. In the book someone asks the gym teacher if she'd continue teaching, the gist of her response was "I'd rather commit suicide."
*_To be fair, Carrie learned how to control her telekinetic powers is still one of the best things happen in history than that Mary Sue called Rey or whatever that is._*
*something something rey mary sue something something soyboy something something beta something something WoKe PC LiBtArDs GoNe Mad* We done now? It's nearly 2020, get over it...
@@RogueBoyScout 2021 isn’t that much better. I know it’s been said a lot, but Edvard Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” would be a good song to summarize 2020. As for Rey, I can’t say why I like her out of fear of getting lambasted.
Calling something "dated" is relative. I graduated from high school in '76. The setting of the film resonated with me then AND NOW. I felt the same way when I saw CHRISTINE which was set in 1978. BOTH movies got the feel of the time in high school totally right.
Excellent video as always Minty. Howevee, Carrie was the 4th book King wrote. Although it was the first book he used his real name, the other 3 being released under his pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Saw this at a studio sneak preview when "Obsession" was still out. The audience was skeptical as to if it would be scary. When the hand jumped out at the end the whole theater jumped three feet in the air and gave the film a standing ovation.
Never have thought of carrie as a horror, book or movie... carrie is the real victim and tbh everyone got exactly what they deserved. Its more of a revenge story.
Thanks for doing this vid, Minty! Carrie's 1970's look is definitely nostalgic. Oh.....there's a movie called Louisa that has a teenage Piper Laurie, being looked down on by her straight laced grandmother. Hilarious.
Carrie is a classic, absolutely. However, I really enjoyed The Rage, Carrie 2 very much as well. And Emily Bergl, who played Rachel (Raechel?) is also excellent in the Gilmore Girls as Francie! Check it out!
I remember growing up on Carrie thinking it was far fetched on how they bullied her. I got bullied but it was limited to playing the dozens which I got better at later on. Setting this girl up and actually going to get pig blood to drop on her was extreme to until I got older and started working around some upper class white kids. They told me stories of how they bullied kids in high school that was along the lines of this. I mean by doing stuff after school. Going to the kids home and continuing to bully them. To me that was crazy because come 3pm,,the bullying stopped at my school. But these kids told me how they went to Sams Club and bought gallons of ketchup and mustard and mayo to dump on some kids car. Thats crazy because no way am i spending money to bully someone.
William Katt could've been a good Luke Skywalker, though I feel everything worked out for the best for *both* films. Travolta as Han Solo could've been interesting, though!
Great video! Here's a little interest for you! The actor that played the Greatest American Hero (William Katy) was the real son of Della Street, Perry Mason's always loyal (and smitten) confidential secretary who was played by Barbara Hale!
something I HATE about reboots, the main CRACY character don't have that simple awkward oddball value, like characters calling oddball ugly that in reality are supermodels which kinda offputting.
Great review - I noticed a lot of Brian De Palma's movies centre around one character who grows stronger and either survive (Dressed to Kill and Mission Impossible) or die at their own peril (e.g. Carrie and Scarface).
I’ve seen all three versions of Carrie, and I’ve gotta be honest, I prefer the middle one, the one that plays out like a police investigation during a police investigation. It’s also the only one (thus far) where Carrie actually gets to live
I remember waking up to this movie when I was a kid. At that point, I'd never seen it before. I was asleep on the couch with the TV on, and I could actually hear, "They're all going to laugh at you" over and over in my dream. Then I woke up just in time to see the start of Carrie's rampage, and it literally scared me half to death. I wanted to get up and run out of the room, but my whole house was pitch dark except for the TV, so I was also scared to leave the room. It was around 4:00 a.m., and I could NOT get back to sleep afterward. Needless to say, it traumatized me for a good while. For the next several days, I was scared to go to the bathroom at night because in my 7 year old mind, I was worried that Carrie might be waiting for me in the hallway.
This was the best version of Carrie. The remakes of this Classic movie was pretty Crap. The Rage Carrie 2 was OK I guess but it was more like the first one?
one fact about PJ Soles, and the reason she was always wearing the red hat. Coming from PJ herself, she said that the filming was during the summer and was quite warm and wanted something to keep the sun off her face. She said she just grabbed the hat not thinking about it, and wore it during filming. Brian De Palma liked it that much, he ask her to keep wearing it
I went with my boyfriend to see Carrie: The Rage. As it happened, his aunt played a student in the original, and in the Rage's flashback "They're all going to laugh at you" scene, she's one of the characters shown. You know, the penultimate scene where suspense is building, everyone is on the edge of their seats...suddenly my boyfriend shook me excitedly and cried "That's her! That's my aunt!" And I said "Oh, cool!" but I also noticed (he didn't) that EVERYONE in the theater jumped a mile and had turned around and was looking at him. Whoopsie! Way to distract from the film! He's a social guy, but definitely doesn't like being the center of attention, so I never told him! Just between us, okay? Shhhhhh! 😉
