Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 4
Carrie is a horrifying look at supernatural powers, high school cruelty, and teen angst -- and it brings us one of the most memorable and disturbing prom scenes in history.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3
Carrie is a horrifying look at supernatural powers, high school cruelty, and teen angst -- and it brings us one of the most memorable and disturbing prom scenes in history.
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This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her fanatical mother, Margaret (Piper Laurie), only causes her classmates' vicious cruelty to escalate, despite the attentions of her overly solicitous gym teacher (Betty Buckley). Finally, when the
Nov 16, 1976 Wide
Sep 29, 1998
United Artists
All Critics (44) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (4) | DVD (32)
More superpowers from Brian De Palma, this time in high school, in a screen version of a Stephen King novel that's become a horror classic.
An exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable.
Carrie is a modest but effective shock-suspense drama about a pubescent girl, her evangelical mother and cruel schoolmates.
This 1976 thriller, about a high school outcast (Sissy Spacek) who uses her telekinetic powers to massacre the graduating class, contains a number of interesting ideas. But as with most of his films, De Palma can't keep track of them.
It is sometimes funny in a puzzling kind of way, it is generally overwrought in an irritating kind of way, and once in a while it is inappropriately touching.
Young director Brian DePalma is fast making his reputation in the genre of the suspense-horror film.
Stephen King's disturbing prom horror classic.
I might be the only person in the world who thinks Brian De Palma's 1976 classic thriller Carrie (now out on DVD) is one of the most overrated, disappointing horror films of all time, but I stand behind my review, and I swear I can knock down just about a
... [O]ne of the best horror films of the 1970s.
The first big hit directed by Brian De Palma.
The reason Carrie is still held in such high regard as a horror classic is very simple: it's all in the sheer directorial bravado. De Palma at the top of his game.
Carrie rivals The Shining for the title of greatest ever Stephen King adaptation.
The film has a strikingly unsettling mood that enhances its power and gives it an impact that the story would otherwise lack. Much of the credit, though, must go to Spacek, who so convincingly portrays Carrie's pain and her longing for acceptance.
The bulk of "Carrie" is not a gore-fest, but a prescient tone poem about the mental torture of social outcasts in high school halls in the pre-Columbine era.
Carrie might be a film about high school, but it was perhaps Brian De Palma's first completely mature film.
De Palma's Gothic thriller is at once trashy and lyrical, a nasty revenge story in which its misfit-Cinederella-like heroine (an exquisite Sissy Spacek) discovers her sexuality under the most terrifying conditions.
The fierce sympathy it extends to its unfashionable central character puts the film a million miles above the contemporary line in sick exploitation.
A total knockout. Piper Laurie gives a bravura performance as Carrie's religious fanatic mother, one of the creepiest movie characters ever.
A nearly perfect film. The combination of pathos, shocks, and grand guignol excess is orchestrated with jaw-dropping precision by young Depalma, whose later films would pale by comparison.
A decent film with a brilliant performance from Spacek but not my kind of film.
July 22, 2007Super Reviewer
A disturbing if flawed and too melodramatic story of a bullied girl (Sissy Spacek) who unleashes Hell at her school's prom once her classmates go too far. Without Spacek's tender, heartwarming, and memorable turn, this movie might not have been completely worth it. However, due to her understated, brilliant work here,
June 24, 2007Super Reviewer
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