Horror in the classic sense, horror that builds rather than constantly shocking, horror that works so well we don’t need a guts and gore booster-shot every two minutes.
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08/28/01
Carrie (1976)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:38
Rotten:4
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen has taken her throne in the... [More]
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, John Travolta, William Katt
Director: Brian De Palma
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Reviews for Carrie
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.
07/15/07
No review available.
10/15/02
Young director Brian DePalma is fast making his reputation in the genre of the suspense-horror film.
03/06/05
De Palma's classic creep show has dark undertones about the nastiness of teen spirit, emergent female sexuality, and rabid Christianity.
03/10/03
Unlike other examples of the horror genre, there are classic elements of tragedy that lend this gruesome tale a compelling edge.
04/17/01
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.
03/31/05
No review available.
01/14/03
Carrie rivals The Shining for the title of greatest ever Stephen King adaptation.
09/25/07
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.
09/25/07
Top CriticBrian De Palma's Carrie is an absolutely spellbinding horror movie, with a shock at the end that's the best thing along those lines since the shark leaped aboard in Jaws.
10/23/04
Top CriticIt’s a gripping and rousing perusal of our human souls -- an opportunity to become aware of our dark sides and meet them head on.
01/01/00
De Palma's masterpiece of pure cinema is the unsung Great American Film of the 1970s.
06/29/03
No review available.
10/10/05
It's high time for the young generation of filmgoers to stop throwing their money [away] and see what a real horror movie is.
01/01/00
...suspenseful, scary, and humorously cunning by turns, it boasts superb acting, excellent pacing, good production values, and...a thought-provoking premise.
09/10/01
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.
05/30/06
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.
09/25/07
... [O]ne of the best horror films of the 1970s.
06/18/08
A total knockout. Piper Laurie gives a bravura performance as Carrie's religious fanatic mother, one of the creepiest movie characters ever.
01/24/06
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