From the Bible Belt and still shocked! If you like swift, brutal, real-time vengeance against bullies and don't mind a lil' collateral damage, then you'll love this full movie reaction to the original Carrie!
Thank Stephen King's wife for this one. I remember reading that he had thrown this story in the trash, not thinking it was any good, but she took it out, read it and said THIS is the story you need to send out. Now we have a classic.
Yep. I think he said he felt that he didn't do the story justice because he didn't know how to write what a teenage girl might be thinking or feeling in these situations, so he tossed it.
@@LisaCupcake the power of the story is that we’ve all felt like a Carrie at some point in our lives. This is a tragic retelling of Cinderella that is very relatable
@@LisaCupcake if I were him I would ask my wife what it was like in high school as a young girl I mean if she was bullied or not even as girl she still would know what another girl would feel in a bullying situation.
Fun fact: Sissy Spacek wanted to not hang out with the rest of the cast off set so that she remain in her character as being shy and outcast. Goes to show that Sissy was very talented at her craft.
She also insisted in doing her own hand/foot work in the shots where we see her walking up the stage steps in heels, or other shots that focused on her hands or feet. so that was actually Sissy who reached up to grab Sue Snell (Amy Iriving)'s arm at the end.
Audiences in 1976: "You see, it's always the quiet ones you gotto watch out for. Ought to be a law against 'em." Audiences today: "Yes! You get those bullies Carrie! Burn it to the ground!"
Yep I sympathise with Carrie but in the end she killed a lot of people that didn't deserve it, if her ability was to create an AK47 out of thin air and used it on the kids at prom people wouldn't be as quick to defend her. The two that killed Tommy with the bucket could go to jail for manslaughter but a lot of kids at the prom had nothing to do with it.Much like Norman Bates I still feel sorry for Carrie.
@@alanscott4846 The real villain is Carrie's mother. What we need are enforceable laws against child abuse. And 'enforceable' is the key word; we need more oversight into the parenting practice so that parents can't hide it while gaslighting their kids into thinking they're not being abused.
"What's the point of being so sweet to her? Does he not know?" He doesn't. He's _completely oblivious._ He _really is_ trying to give Carrie White a pleasant prom.
It really touched on issues that was uncomfortable for the day. It touched on sex education, feminine issues, bullying, fitting in, religious extremism, child abuse, etc. Stephen King knew the problems of the day and some of those problems haven't gone away after 45 years.
One thing I think people gloss over is the abusive relationship that Chris and Billy have- her berating, hitting, and manipulating Billy then Billy hitting and inappropriately touching her when she says no- I think people don't think about this is because they're the villains of the story
Don't forget, this also was very railed on for dabbling into a concept that has sadly become commonplace, but at the time it was seen as something of a looming threat... mass school violence. The idea of a bullied kid seeking revenge en masse was almost known to be inevitable and it was culturally stricken. THAT is the big taboo this story not only wasn't afraid to depict, but made us sympathize with. A big shocker at the time.
i’m glad you pointed out that carrie was only imagining the entire room laughing at her. so many reactors end up thinking the pe teacher was actually laughing.
Yeah! I don't know how so many ppl miss that?!?! That's why we hear Carries mother repeating "there all gonna laugh at you!" In Carries head 💯 🙂 and why the image we see becomes distorted cos Carries seeing it in a distorted way 🤔 I think the gym teachers death might have been collateral damage but it's just a theory 🙃 XxXxX
@@Lavono Yep, in the book she laughs out loud and stops when she goes to help Carrie, but she reads her mind and sees that Desjardin still finds the situation funny. After the destruction and Carrie's death, Desjardin realises her mistakes and says she would rather die than teach again, acknowledging that she was partly responsible for what happened.
The way you can tell is when Chris and Billy scramble out from under the stage and _they’re_ giggling and making noise, but besides that, it’s completely silent.
when you said "is carrie on the spectrum?" i burst into tears. as an autistic girl who really resonates with carrie and is obsessed with this story, your organic reaction to this movie is exactly what stephen king and brian de palma were trying to convey. this story is ultimately a tragedy, a cycle intergenerational trauma coming to a head. ableism is perpetuated by our parents and peers in a perverse attempt to correct us, institutions like education and religion often pressuring and catapulting us straight toward hurting ourselves or others in our pain. i personally recommend the novel, what carrie is feeling and the way she is connected to the town around her as she destroys everything including herself is so fervently described by king (who i do have mixed feelings for), there has been no other read like it for me
A tragic bit is the fact that not everyone was laughing at her. Most of the attendees were innocent--they were suitably shocked & disgusted; but Carrie's already fragile mind was shattered, so she viewed the situation as framed by her mother's words & doubts, seeing nothing but mockery & laughter instead of reality.
i never could see the teacher really laughing at her, i always thought Carrie may have been too in shock because lets be honest, who would think a girl covered in blood is funny
@@maca76 In the book, the teacher was laughing but stopped when she ran over to Carrie to help her off stage. But Carrie used her telepathy to look into her "soul" and saw that she was laughing internally, so she used her telekinesis to throw her aside and run out of the gymnasium.
Legit... I never understand the people that watch this movie for the first time now a days and don't understand that Sue and Tommy had nothing to do with the "prank" blood bucket. So weird LoL But the teacher laughing... that shit makes no sense.
@@Rellj16 the teacher wasn't laughing. All the laughter was Carrie's imagination. That bitch with the red hat and her boyfriend and a couple of others were the only ones really laughing.
As someone who was bullied throughout most of my time in school, Carrie was weirdly aspirational to me. But my telekinetic powers never came through, so I had to settle for Mortal Kombat instead.
While I'm sorry to hear that you were bullied, I am curious: Which character did you play the most? Or were you so hardcore that you used them all? I ask largely because I pumped SO many quarters into Street Fighter 2 - Championship Edition when I was in college, and quite a few into Mortal Kombat.
@@corvus1970 I liked to test drive everybody, but Mileena and Kung Lao were my go-tos. They kind of still are, even in this age of fifty-eleven DLCs per game. My brother and I would often play as Scorpion (him) and Sub-Zero (me), though.
@@DanielleSouthcott I was very much the same: test-driving and eventually settling on favorites. Rayden/Raiden is generally my first-choice to this day, followed by Sub-Zero. Thanks for replying. Take care! :D
The scene where the mom dies and enjoys it in ecstasy was all actress Piper Laurie’s idea. She figured the mom thought she was going where she wanted to be. So she suggested it to director Brian DePalma, and he agreed. She was brilliant!
She hadn't been penetrated since Carrie's conception. She had one last orgasm in death. Piper Laurie was brilliant in this film. Everyone was. Great reaction to a classic!
Whether Piper and DePalma knew it at the time or not, what Piper was portraying was actually a case of something called religious ecstasy. Saint Sebastain, the crucified figure in the prayer closet, apparently experienced the same thing as he died on the cross.
@@Deined There's also The Ecstasy of St.Teresa! An angel showed her a vision, and she felt it like fire through her body (arguably described like an orgasm lol)
21:38 Tommy had no idea whatsoever! As the prom went on, I think he GENUINELY enjoyed being in Carrie’s company (which makes sense because she is delightful).
In the scene where Carrie shows mama her dress, it’s clearly a pink dress, but her mama says it’s red. The script originally did have a red dress, so it was flub to the day of shooting. Piper Laurie, Carrie’s mother in the movie kept saying red dress, the director said, “ no it’s pink gown, not red.” Piper Laurie pulled the director to the side and said the character’s beliefs and world views are so fucked up that she sees things differently than everyone else, like the color of a dress, or the intentions of strangers. So they kept it. Great performance from her as well.
Fun fact: When Piper Laurie, Carrie's mom, read the script she thought Margaret White was so over the top that she thought it was a comedy, and played her that way :D
In the book, Carrie didn't just burn the school. She burned the whole town down. Towards the end,, Sue discovers that she's pregnant with Tommy's baby, but after Carrie dies in her arms and starts walking away, she begins to cry and she miscarries the baby. The movie is great, but the book goes into more detail.
Oh the book is everything. Hold it very near and dear to my heart. I love the epilogue where they talk about how after natural disasters caused damage in the town, it would always be buzzing with the sounds of rebuilding, cutting trees, volunteers offering to clear debris for one another, etc. But after Carrie, they all just packed up and left. Moved away. And didn’t rebuild a damn thing. After all, all their kids died in that town so any kind of existence there just wasn’t possible anymore. That always struck me as very effective in conveying that Carrie didn’t just destroy her high school and her high school bullies, but the very lives of their families and everyone in that town.
Sue’s pregnancy was put in the 2013 film as well though there’s been theories with the 2013 film that Carrie might have been reincarnated as Sue’s daughter.
Fun fact, the string sting when Carrie uses her powers are the same ones Bernard Herman wrote for psycho, because he was supposed to score this movie, but he passed away before production started, so this is basically a tribute to him
Liam Even worse happens to people. Not only are there countless suicides every day, there are those who suffer enough to never enjoy life, but not suffer enough to kill themselves.
The piercing music you recognized is actually borrowed from Psycho (think of the iconic shower scene)! I hope you'll get to that one sooner or later :)
Unfortunate fact: When Norma’s actress had to be sprayed with the Firehose, the director wanted it to look as real as possible so despite the stunt supervisor saying it was dangerous he sprayed her full force. So in the last shot we see of her when she slides down the table, the full force of water went into her right ear bursting her eardrum.
that is so fucked up, there really should be laws preventing filmmakers from overruling safety coordinators and stunt coordinators. this is how lives can be, and HAVE been lost. a stunt double died on set of deadpool 2 bc of a dangerous stunt that some of the production team insisted on. and now a woman is dead, and for what. 😖
Sue may have been cruel but quickly felt horrible about it. She tried to help Carrie. Tommy was sort of in the popular group but realized he hated them. He really liked Carrie
I love the gym teacher 😂 she’s kind but savage when she needs to be 😂 Sue and Tommy were actually trying to be nice and when Carrie saw everyone laughing it was just in her imagination, I think only a few of the main bullies laughed
Everyone seems to forget that Tommy died from that prank ...that bucket fell on his head and ended him. He was dying at Carrie's feet. No one has mentioned it yet LOL! Tommy was punished for his good deed.
@@LA_HA Yes I know the saying thats why I referenced it without utilizing it directly. Thank you for your interpretation...how I see that as only your opinion not the actual meaning of the phrase. Yea the explanation you gave about what occurred in the movie was really wholly unnecessary and actually provided nothing that wasn't actually evident and quite obvious in the movie. I've read the book a couple of times and seen the movie a few times...but hey thanks for playing.😁 Have a great day!
If I’m remembering correctly, the crowd starts out quiet but a guy starts laughing at the sound the bucket made when it struck Tommy’s head and everyone joined in
@@kayleenagel3732 the kaleidoscope effect is used to represent that it’s in Carrie’s head, some of the bullies were laughing but I think most of the crowd and the teachers weren’t
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Stephen King wrote "Carrie" inspired by a girl he knew at his school. And the original story is very grim, that's why Carrie turns out to be such a dark tale. The girl King studied with was very poor and her parents extremely negligent conservatives, so she always looked dishevelled and dirty and the entire school nagged on her. One summer she managed to gather money and went through a transformation: new clothes, new hair, skin care... But, since that was real life and not a movie, the transformation backfired monstrously on her. She was trying to fit in and be loved, and you must NEVER have other teenagers know you are trying to be loved. The ENTIRE school turned against her ten thousand times harder, crueler and more openly, even the teachers. They destroyed her and she spiraled into depression. She eventually died.
@@chloejoyhenry3137 There were two of them. One was the girl OP described, the other was another bullying victim who lived with a deranged religious fanatic single mother. Sounds familiar?
Sue and Tommy were never in on the prank. Sue genuinely felt bad about her part in the shower prank that she asked Tommy to take her to make amends. Tommy went along with it because she asked and in the class room scene, he was disgusted with the teacher mocking Carrie which is why he said "you suck" directed at him. He also may have also started to have feelings for her at the prom. Also, not everybody was laughing at her but Carrie was in so much shock that in her mind, everybody was laughing including Miss Collins, the P.E. teacher. I think she pushed so much over the edge so much that she couldn't control her powers.
@@beautifulloly That was my understanding too, a casual abrasiveness to someone that wasn't on his radar at that point. But then later he was genuinely nice and friendly as he got to know her. Also at the end I think she was in control of those powers she had just totally cracked.
No shit! I went to see the remake in theaters when I was a teenager but I was upset at the time and I don’t remember anything about it. Worth a second look?
I never had the impression that Sue and Tommy were in on it. And I watched it when it came out. I don't understand why everybody thinks they were against her. Sue saw the error of her ways and wanted to redeem herself. Tommy did it because Sue asked him to, but then I think he started to like Carrie.
Yeah even though it's for the purpose of the story, in real life this whole situation could have been avoided if Sue had just decided "to hell with the popular girls" and went and been Carrie's friend and get Tommy to do it too. The whole prom thing is a nice gesture but it does look suspicious. Maybe she couldn't swallow her pride and open herself up to harassment publicly even though she said she doesn't care how she looks. She's still likely been popular her whole childhood so she really does care. She wanted to do something nice for Carrie, not realizing all she had to do was actually be nice to Carrie. This is why I think Sue has so much guilt at the end of the story.
I read somewhere Carrie is implied to be autistic and if that's the case, her sleeping a lot makes sense as well as other autistic traits she displays.
The thing with this film is that, even knowing what happens to her (the blood), it still is a reversal of sorts that most people were not in the plot to humiliate her. The fact that most people just ignored abuse and bullying and that the few who tried to do something were naïve and innefective mirrors a lot how this kind of thing goes irl. And that abuse can eventually explode over not only the abusers but on everyone around, the guilty and the innocent. It is clear eyed for a 1970's film, tbh.
Carrie was the prettiest girl at prom & she had the best dress. Tommy and Sue were not in on the prank. He was being truly kind to Carrie. The remakes suck. This is one of my favorite King books.
@@porflepopnecker4376 I like the original 1976 version best but I do agree that the 2002 remake with Angela Bettis was pretty good too. A lot of people like to say that remake was terrible but honestly Angela Bettis made for a great Carrie, she was able to capture the social awkwardness of the character and the special effects for the arly 2000s was actually not that bad. In any case I certainly would choose the 2002 remake over the 2013 one lol.
I thought 2002 Carrie was pretty good and Angela was a great Carrie. The mean girls also got more scenes and were much meaner, which helped hate them even more. The only complaints I can think of is prolly the ending being way different. I didn't like 2013 Carrie, but I appreciated that all 3 versions were all different.
The book continues after the night of the prom. Sue Snell writes a book about her experiences and spends a lot of time questioning her own motives. She *was* the main reason why Carrie was there that night, after all. King also does a bit world-building at the end by explaining that, as a result of the massacre, both bullying and telekinesis are being taken more seriously by the authorities.
Of course they took it seriously after a truck load of kids got killed, also whould the goverment do testing on ppl with telekenisis or the Shine like in the Firestarter or whould they just look after them in school/job? I whould love a sequel on Carrie like how The Shining got a sequel, Carries legacy on the world whould bevfun to watch...
Yeah, the book is narrative plus retrospective documentary style. There are interview transcripts etc. Sprinkled throughout the story part of the book because Carrie takes out more than just the prom and her house. If I remember right, Sue also stays home from the prom and has a pregnancy scare. Sue holds Carrie as she dies of a heart attack, and Sue then feels her period starting.
@@livingdeadgirl5691 they made a sequel, which in my opinion, is just a vastly inferior re-hash of the original. I also didn't like the fact that The Rage lore tries to claim that Ralph was unfaithful to his nutcase wife and the result was Rachel. IF that had been true there is NO way Rachel could have been in high school IN THE NINETIES, because Ralph White died in an accident on a construction site BEFORE CARRIE was born. Rachel would have been THE SAME AGE as Carrie.
To answer your question, Tommy had no idea what was in store for Carrie at the prom. He didn't want to take Carrie to the prom at first, but then when he saw how sweet and genuine Carrie was, he began to actually like her. Tommy is a good guy.
The violin "stabs" are a reference to the 1960 movie Psycho. I've never understood why current-day watchers are confused about Sue and Tommy's motivations. It seems so clear that they had no idea what was going on. I guess that's a tribute to the depth of the screenplay and direction that it is ambiguous to so many people! In the book it is made more clear that the girls' locker room "stunt" was a real turning point for Sue. She becomes aware of mean-girl culture and her main concern about not going to the prom is not looking like a martyr. Her reaching out to carrie through Tommy is an attempt at atonement for her actions.
In the book if memory serves me right Carrie went on to destroy fire hydrants, power lines and gas stations near the school. Carrie basically creates a path of destruction to her house from the school. She also sends out a telepathic message to all of the townspeople so they know it was her. Instead of this simply being one building burning, she almost takes out the whole town.
Also, she made a telepathic link to the one girl who tried to help and in the end after she was dead, she was still linked to the girl. I think it was implied that Carrie was speaking from the grave in her mind and would continue to do so. That's why it freaked me out in middle school when I read it. At least that's how I remember it.
@@AlandaParker I was bullied in elementary school to the point that I just closed my self off to most other people and I have spent most of the rest of my life being ignored. I relate to carrie a LOT! I enjoyed your reaction like always!
The book actually goes into detail about how Margaret was driven into madness by an untreated mental illness, the death of her father in a shoot-out at a bar, and her partner abusing her. Carrie's father SA'd Margaret before they were married, which resulted in a pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage - which he told Margaret was "God's judgement". He then SA'd her again after they were married, which resulted in Carrie's conception. In the book he then died before Carrie was born, but in the movie he ran away with another woman and abandoned her after getting her pregnant. By the way, I'm glad you saw that Carrie is potentially on the spectrum - I'm autistic and Carrie is my special interest and comfort book/movie because it was the first time I truly felt represented in media, particularly horror. Carrie's destruction is both terrifying and empowering as someone who was abused as bad as Carrie was simply for being different.
Stephen King and his wife went to see the movie for the first time at a sneak preview of the movie on Halloween night. The movie was paired as a double feature, second to a Redd Foxx comedy, so the audience was majority black. He was worried that the audience would care or relate to this teen horror about a meek, little white girl living in the suburbs having menstrual problems. He said when he saw the audience jump and freak out at the end jumpscare and saw two big, grown men down front do it too (even Stephen King said he jumped because that scene wasn't in his book or the script), that was when he knew the movie was going to be a hit. I think I read that the audience ended up cheering for Carrie when she started going off at the prom...
"Not the dangers of an unrealistic puritanical lifestyle coming to fruition." You're way too perceptive and erudite to be a RU-vid Reactor. That was judgmental, funny, and accurate, all at once. Best. Leo.
This is one of the saddest movies I have personally seen. I still cry to this day when she gets poured woth the pig's blood. Her expression of horror along with the "They're all gonna laugh at you" playing in the background is absolutely gut wrenching...
As a huge fan of this movie (my name may not be a coincidence) who is also on the spectrum, your take of "Is Carrie on the spectrum and these people are just doing her dirty? Why is no one equipped to protect her?" is the one I have been WAITING for. It makes me tear up a little having grown up in the 90s, but I quote it to other fans all the time when I recommend this channel.
I've spoken to many Carrie fans who are on the spectrum or disabled and every one of them, myself included, believes that Carrie was autistic. I don't know why people find it hard to believe when she displays so many symptoms in the book and movies. There simply wasn't a word to describe it back in 1974.
This movie is such a classic. As a kid who was bullied (not quite this bad) a lot in middle school, I used to root for her lol. If you get a chance to, I strongly recommend reading the book. It is *SO GOOD!* It’s not a very long book like most of King’s novels. It goes into depth about Carrie and her childhood. Love ya, sis! ❤️❤️
I Know what you mean. After getting bullied all day at school it was a great stress relief to come home and watch a horror movie where all the 'perfect' people got taken out.
@Dorray Isler I feel you. Those people may have made you feel like you weren’t perfect. But you are. You are perfect the way you are. We are all perfectly flawed ❤️❤️
The ending between Carrie and Sue in the novel is so devastating, with Carrie involuntarily projecting her own pitiful last thoughts and the experience of her own death into Sue's mind, until Sue can feel the last confused neurons firing, and Sue is so overwhelmed she miscarries and then has to live with not just knowing what her own death will be like, but also nobody believing she wasn't in on the prank? Stephen King did not fucking hold back in that novel lol
When you are getting picked on and tormented you just got to take solace in one thing ... The immense joy you are bringing to others. Just seeing the sheer delight 😁 of them getting off on your misery 😫
My school experience (not the mother but like everything else) was very similar to Carrie. I literally was tormented naked in a shower room, everyone hid my clothes, etc. This movie is the definition of a power trip and we stan Carrie. She is the only queen.
It didnt just happen to girls as well, it happened in my school, it was an ALL boys catholic school, kids can be the worst.. its why i cheer when the bullies get their just deserts..
@@Greenwood4727 This movie is proof that we can't just treat people the way we want to, cause we dont know what they go through. Poor Carrie all of them deserved what they got
when my mom first read the book she said he was floored that a man had captured how ruthless high school girls are. (she was 15 in 1976) there was a girl in her swimming class that constantly tried to drown her
I always thought Tommy was the most interesting character. He genuinely seems to like Carrie after a while, and tries to do the right thing. King built here up as an unexpectedly decent guy in the book, too. His death is really the most tragic because of all the main characters he never did anything wrong.
the last scene still gives me chills, there's something sinister about Sue's dream world before she makes it to Carrie's death site even though it's embodied by this heavenly glow, and then of course Carrie's bloody arm reaching out through the rubble right in the perfect spot to grab Sue's arm, with Sue now awake but yet still feeling Carrie's hand wrapped around her and pulling her down (to hell?) along with the music, lol it's too much. oh and the gym teacher was absolutely correct in slapping Carrie as it's scientifically the right thing to do when someone is hysterical, I know it looked bad but she didn't smack her hard enough to hurt her. lastly, your hair is glorious!
The dream scene was shot in reverse so Sue’s character was actually walking backwards. This was to create a sinister atmosphere and a sense that something was off. It’s such a subtle yet effective eerie technique
I can tell you, as someone who has been through it, puberty is _sometimes_ awkward, and _sometimes_ overwhelming for guys when _we_ go through it. I _shutter_ at the thought of what it must be like for _girls;_ the cramps, the periods, the bloating and all. _That's_ when we _know_ what we're in for. The panic Carrie manifests, though, when she gets _her_ first period and thinks she's _hemorrhaging_ happened because she _didn't_ know what it was, thanks to her upbringing by a woman who _knew_ what lay ahead for her who had tried to _pray it away!_ Like it was some kind of _divine retribution!_ How _ridiculously naive_ is that? When's the last time an adolescent girl managed to avoid her first period because her mother _prayed really hard?_
25:01 -- Neither Sue, nor Tommy, nor anyone else knew of this plot by Chris, Billy, Freddy and Norma to drop the pig blood. Sue and Tommy were being genuinely kind, and so were the other kids who welcomed the "new" Carrie at the prom. Their shock and anger when the blood is dropped on Carrie is genuine, but her distorted perspective turns everyone into a laughing culprit. For me, that's what makes Carrie's vengeance terrible: she kills innocent people who had nothing but good will for her.
Sorry, they all deserved it. One nice act doesn't erase the years of their hatred and harrassment. None of them understood what she was going through and didn't care to know.
@@jadeandjesse5908 There are no innocent people in there have you watched the graphite at the school or understood the book, they all mistreated Carrie. No innocents there, they deserved it
Something to keep in mind when you're looking at the reactions of people in the film to Carrie's situation is that, at the time this book was written, the concept of "child abuse" still wasn't a thing. When the principal says he can't interfere with people's beliefs, that really was the prevailing attitude. Parents had a right to discipline their kids and others did not have a right to interfere. It was only with the publication of "Sybil" in the early 70's that the idea of getting involved in any way in this kind of situation - at that time called "battered child syndrome" - gained any real traction. It still wasn't the common attitude when this film came out, thus how many people didn't seem to understand that Carrie's sense of herself came from the awfulness at home, since people were socialized not to ask or pry into how kids were raised. All people knew about Margaret White was that she was a peculiarly fanatical type of Christian (also not a socially acceptable thing at the time - most people found them embarrassing), but had no idea that she was abusing Carrie. (And again, that's not what they would have called it.) I know it seems unbelievable, but things have really changed a HELL of a lot since Carrie's day.
Carrie was fed, clothed, and clean, so nobody suspected she was suffering. She was the weird kid with the weird mother, putting her on the outside. Kid couldn't catch a break.
@@julietfischer5056 It's compounded by the fact that the original Carrie, the one in the book, was not the sweet, shy innocent that Spacek embodied in the movie. She was just as judgmental as her mom and not shy about it, one of the reasons Chris Hargenson hated her so much. Her mind is filled with dark thoughts of revenge all through the story, and she's cowed and jealous at the same time. Her inner life is really whacked and ugly, so it's not nearly so hard to understand how she ended up the school scapegoat. But all of that would be very difficult to portray and still keep the audience's sympathies, so De Palma opted for a gentler Carrie whom the audience could see as a lost lamb that finally finds her nerve, instead of a smoldering ball of resentment that finally finds a match to set off her own bomb.
I’ve only read a few of Stephen King’s books, but from those few, I’d say he’s not only the master of horror - he’s the master of TRAGIC horror. And that’s what makes him the best. You don’t get layers of emotion like that just anywhere.
Oh absolutely. Pet Sematary for me is his most disturbing book for that very reason. The reason everything he does is so believable even when it seems like a plot would normally be ridiculous is because he humanizes it on a level that you really feel the emotions and the characters.
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Yes, Sue was asking him to take Carrie to prom out of kindness/guilt because she normally doesn't join bullying her and genuinely felt guilty about the locker room stuff. Tommie also didn't know about the pigs blood.
During the prom scene in the book, it goes different, every one start's laughing out of confusion in how to react and she doesn't do burn the place down while on stage, she runs out and does everything through the windows and then destroys the town because she let her powers and her anger take over and she didn't remember doing any if it.
The part where she kept projecting her name into people's minds was my favorite. Even people who didn't see her at all knew it was Carrie White. Such a great book!!
The teacher smacking Carrie was just trying to get her attention since she clearly was hysterical. If someone was drowning and your trying to save them u may have to knock them out to prevent both of you from drowning. Plus we live in the times where putting your hands on people is less tolerated than it was back then
What's sad is that Tommy and Sue and the Teacher were sincere and the whole thing almost went alright. She went from the best moment in her life to the worst in an instant. What is missing from the movie (and understandably so, because it's hard to convey), is that unlike the earlier incidents in the movie where things were happening, when she goes off at the prom the people know that it's her doing it, they can feel her.
Stephen King said he wrote _Carrie_ as a commentary at the time of men's fear of female power (feminism), and he based her character on a girl he taught in his English class.
I saw this in junior high when it came out, and that unexpected hand out of the grave at the end was one of the best jump scares ever. As Sue was screaming in her mom's arms, the woman sitting in front of me turned to her friend and said "She ain't never gonna be right." 😄😄
This was an AMAZING REACTION!!! You are hysterical! Fun facts: The chic who played Norma "chopped up bangs", played Linda in Halloween, and when the water hose shot her face it ruptured her ear drum. Sissy once drenched in the pigs blood stayed covered in it for two days and stayed on set in her trailer over night to feel the void which helped her with the killing scenes. When Carrie's mom was stabbed by the knives the actress Piper Laurie wanted her to feel penetrated hence the sounds of passion. I so enjoy your commentary.
The shrieking violin motif for Carrie's psychic power is a reference to Bernard Hermann's score for the 1960 film Psycho, where that musical trope originated in popular culture. It was in part the result of Brian de Palma really wanting composer Bernard Hermann to score this film, but he was a bit busy being freshly dead to do the job. However, he requested composer Pino Donaggio to reference the motif wherever possible. A fun fact about Pino Donaggio is that he was also the original co-composer and performer of the song You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, if you're a 60s pop fan.
I was eleven when this came out and I was already used to seeing films like Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and but this was pretty disturbing for me because I felt so bad for her. Loved when she got her revenge.
This was one of the first horror movies I ever watched as a child, and I don’t know why but the scene of Margaret chopping the carrots in the kitchen messed me up for months. I have no idea why that’s the thing that stayed with me lol - maybe the way it’s shot is like a bird’s-eye view of crazy?
Yep, Sue and Tommy were not in on it. The other kids formed the plan after they found out he was taking her. Took advantage of the situation so to speak. Sue felt instantly guilty for her behavior in the locker room once she realized Carrie really didn't know what was going on. It's been awhile since I read the book but I believe she realized Carrie wasn't weird, she was abused in that moment and chose to start helping her. She knew Carrie wouldn't trust her so she asked Tommy to take Carrie to the prom instead. It was also explained more in the book why the kids disliked Carrie. No excuse for that behavior, obviously. But most were intimidated mostly by her mother's preaching and Carrie repeating things back because she didnt know better. They thought she thought she was better than everyone else. Plus the fact that weird things always happened around her. Such a sad story and wonderful performances from the entire cast, but especially Sissy.
According to the book, the bucket instantly killed Tommy when it hit him in the head. Guess it was one heavy bucket. And I know I really shouldn't have been laughing through that final scene with her mom, but by the time you said "Go with God, please..." I was in TEARS. 🤣 I may need help.
I think it was because it was still full of blood. There were two buckets in the book and one of them slipped and fell, hitting Tommy on the head as they were tipped over. A heavy bucket full of liquid falling twenty-something feet will do serious damage.
The statue does not have voodoo pins. It is a statue of St. Sebastian, who was martyred by being shot with arrows. Also note the way the mother's knife wounds match the arrow wounds on St. Sebastian.
Keep in mind that Piper Laurie thought this movie was a comedy when she portrayed Carrie's mother. Yes, a comedy. Even when she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance, she still didn't get it was not meant to be a comedy and had no idea as to why the film was such a hit. Very fun reaction to this classic!
Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, and Sissy Spacek are truly the reason this film is so good. Bad casting (directing, editing, and script writing) would have just given you the remake instead of this classic. Thanks again for another awesome reaction
Most modern psychology suggests that Carrie is probably autistic and experienced a "rage blackout" at prom. Her being autistic makes total sense. As someone who is on the spectrum, I find Carrie to be a very relatable character in that she's constantly being picked on for being different. Psychologists also suggest that Sue suffers from PTSD at the end of the movie. That also makes total sense. She did just watch her boyfriend and most of her closest friends die horrific deaths.
Stephen King also wrote an introduction to the book where he talked about how he based Carrie on two girls he went to school with. He said those girls, and others like her, seem to give off a signal that shouts, "strange! not like us! keep away!" Studies have shown that neurotypicals can pick up on autistic traits subconsciously and treat autistic people differently as a result, even if the autistic person in question is doing their best impression of a fellow neurotypical. Carrie also thinks of her "otherness" as a red circle that she could scrub and scrub and scrub at, and it would never fade even a little. Carrie was 100% autistic.
When the mother was chopping that carrot you said, "...yeah, chop some carrots - take your mind off it." That is one of the funniest comments on RU-vid! I laughed and laughed at that comment! Excellent!
I always thought, in the book, she only had a pregnancy scare, but got her period after Carrie died.(?). I remember it described as she "felt the blood get between her tighs".
I'm not a huge Stephen King fan (I don't dislike him, but... I have my qualms with his work) but I forgot how much I love this movie. It's so heavy and Sissy is incredible. It's not scary. It's just emotional and tragic and twisted. It does a fantastic job of pulling you through all of Carrie's woes.
I actually read the novel and saw this movie at the theater a few years after it came out and it was amazing on the big screen. Yes Sue and Tommy were innocently trying to do something nice for Carrie because Sue felt so ashamed of what she helped to in the locker room and they didn't know anything about the prank at the prom. And Tommy actually was starting to have feelings for her. And the students treat her really well during the prom too seeing her transformation. They don't make it clear in the movie but in the book when the bucket hits Tommy in the head, he dies from it and Carrie feels him die. In the book she not only burns everyone in the gym but she stops the Firemen from putting it out, disables the fire hydrants around the school, destroys much of the town, and telepathically sends a message out to all the people in the town that it was her that did it. In the book there is a scene where as a toddler she causes stones to fall from the sky near her house, and at the end of the movie that's her causing stones to fall and destroy the house, which is a bit different from the novel. The scene where her hand grabs sues are is added just in the movie also. Definitely a classic.
