Carrie (1976 Film)

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  • Carrie is a horror film released in 1976, starring Sissy Spacek. The movie is based upon the book by Stephen King and is about a teenage girl with telekinetic powers.

  • "Carrie" (1976) is an adaptation of the novel Carrie by Stephen King. Sissy Spacek stars in the lead as a young unpopular girl who possesses telekinetic powers. The film was nominated for a number of awards, and won two. The Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival awarded one for Grand Prize and another for Special Mention for Sissy Spacek's acting. The film also won an award from the National Society Of Film Critics for Best Actress as well. "Carrie" is considered to be a thriller, horror as well as a drama. IMDB.com users rated this film as 7.4 out of 10 possible stars.

  • Reviews

    "An exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable." -TIME Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918515,00.html

    "Carrie is not a terrible movie. It has a good sense of style and vividly builds momentum. But the movie is not scary; it's just violent, abhorrent. It contains all the necessary ingredients to make for an appetizing, suspenseful creep show, but it never delivers." -filmcritic.com http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Carrie-(1976)

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    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. " --New York Times http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003625-carrie/?critic=columns&sortby=rotten&name_order=asc&view=#contentReviews

  • Plot Synopsis

    Carrie White is your average not so popular girl who discovers she has telekinetic powers while being made fun of by popular girls for having her first period. She learns to use those powers against her peers who make fun of her.

  • Plot Synopsis

    Carrie is about a high school girl who is widely unpopular and not very social. She gets her first period in the gym shower and is fearful, as her mother is a religious zealot who has never explained such things to her daughter. Carrie's peers begin laughing and taunting her and throwing feminine products at her while she cowers in the shower, afraid and not understand why she is bleeding. The girls (peers) are disciplined for this behavior and could ultimately lose the privilege of purchasing prom tickets. A couple of the girls are very outraged, however one girl feels badly for Carrie and asks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross to take Carrie to the prom, he obliges. Everyone is not happy, however and soon a revenge plot is in place with the purpose to embarrass Carrie at the prom. The revenge plan takes place and Carrie cannot handle what has happened and her telekinetic powers begin to destroy the whole scene... What happens next is murder and mayhem.

  • Reviews

    "An exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable." — Richard Schickel TIME Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918515,00.html

    "Carrie is a modest but effective shock-suspense drama about a pubescent girl, her evangelical mother and cruel schoolmates. " — Variety http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117789731.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=carrie

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