Carrie (Special Edition) (Wide Screen)

Advantages: A really good film adaptation of a great book
Disadvantages: None apart from a slightly wooden Travolta performance

...are ... ~~~Synopsis~~~ Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a lonely young girl, osctracised by her peers in high school for being "weird" and repressed at home by her religiously fanatical mother Margaret (Piper Laurie). All she really longs for is to be accepted by the other girls and live a normal life. Unfortunately for Carrie she experiences her first period at the age of 17 in the showers of the girls locker room at school. Terrified, she does ...
...of the girls who taunted Carrie is Sue Snell (Amy Irving). She feels terrible about what happened and so she asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross (William Katt) to take Carrie to the Prom . Sue feels that in some way this may make up for the way that she treated Carrie in the locker room. After some persuasion Carrie finally agrees to go to the prom with Tommy. Chris Hargensen (Nancy Allen) has other ideas. Because of what happened in the locker room (Hargensen ... Read review

Advantages: A great psychological horror film.
Disadvantages: None

...Brian De Palma in 1976, Carrie has been hailed as a classic film, I can't believe I managed to go all these years without seeing it. 'Carrie' is obviously enough, the story of a young girl called Carrie White (Played by Sissy Spacek). She is bullied at school and one day she starts her periods in the showers after playing netball. Carrie's mother (Played by Piper Laurie) is a repressive and fanatically religious women and she believes is that menstruation ...
...discussed. She has not told Carrie to expect periods and unsurprisingly she completely freaks out in the showers, she thinks she is dying. The other girls throw tampons and towels at her, they laugh at her and torment her as she screams in horror until being rescued by Gym teacher Miss Collins' (played by Betty Buckley) …… The school contact Mrs White to tell her about the incident and when Carrie tries to talk to her mother about it, she is thrown ... Read review

Advantages: strikes a chord with anyone whos been bullied
Disadvantages: not enough scenes with the carnage at the prom

this movie is suprisingly gore-free but is very high on the creepiness and suspense. maybe a little too much suspense. the scenes at the prom are amazing but after all that buildup you can't help but feel a little of an anticlimax. you just don't get to see enough of the panic at the prom. they really linger over her mothers (spectacular) death but id have loved to see a bit more panic and carnage at the school. maybe thats just me though! lol! great ...
...actually like. usually i love the books and find the movie a disappointment but this was actually almost on a par with the book. you'l really buy sissy spacek as the misfit loner Carrie, she radiates a sense of disomfort in her own skin and a vague terror of everything. ... Read review

Advantages: scary as hell, great actiing from sissy spacek
Disadvantages: confusing sometimes

...- love the one where carrie walks out of the school gym covered in blood - a ghostly yet serene figure. Its definitely one to watch with someone for company! sissy spacek carries off the role brilliantly and there is loads of great imagery - check out christ and the mother!!! eyes and their significance - christ/mother/carrie/chris figure a lot which makes the film even wierder... creepy! the special effects were great for the time (though the levitating ... Read review