Carrie (1976) (WS/RPKG/FP/BD) [Blu-ray]

Good old movie got watch if love old horror and girl get bullying have powers later show them.

Just so everyone understands how I rated this movie, here is the break down:1 star - hated it2 stars - disliked it3 stars - average4 stars - liked it5 stars - loved it!So before everyone starts sending me hate mail about how the movie isn't perfect, understand that I am not saying that it is. I will admit that a lot of people don't seem to like this movie as much as I do though. However, I think that some of the most fantastic scenes ever caught on film exist in this movie.I really LOVE Piper Laurie and Sissey Spacek. They were amazing! They are the first thing that I will ever mention about this movie because I continue to go back and re-watch this film because of them.I loved all the details that Sissey Spacek put into Carrie's character. She would stretch her sleeves to show her nervousness. Her face would almost seem to genuinely swell up when she was dealing with pressure. I was quite frankly flabbergasted. I don't know how she did it. Of all the actors/actresses in this movie, Sissey Spacek just really stood out. She did not look like she was acting. I kept wondering to myself the entire time, where did they get this girl from?Piper Laurie I could tell was taking a comedic approach to her script and I loved it! She did a bang up job in her performance. I loved her interpretation of the pain that she was experiencing as pleasurable. I could sense her strange sense of humor as she did it and it definitely added a creepy touch to her performance. Plus, I just loved watching her as she confided to Carrie her deepest darkest secrets from her past and as she bombarded Carrie with her warped perspective on her religious beliefs.Heck, I loved the casting in general and I feel bad picking out favorites. For instance, I think that Nancy Allen (Robocop!), Amy Irving, Priscilla Pointer, and Betty Buckley were also in some of the best scenes ever caught on film in this movie. Priscilla Pointer and Amy Irving were undoubtedly in the scariest scene in the entire movie. I completely loved Nancy Allen's performance where she was in a car with John Travolta's character, Billy Nolan. Lastly, Betty Buckley was perfectly chosen for her role as a gym instructor and I loved watching her whipping everyone in her class into shape for the terrible things that they had done to Carry.I loved the use of nudity in order to expose the characters' frailnesses and fragilities. It really created a sense of pure evil in the scenes that had nudity and it made me think about the kind of evil that people were capable of (even though this is all fiction). I would certainly hope that something like what is depicted in this movie would never happen in real life.I loved the use of cameras and editing in the film. I don't think many people pay attention to just how cool this was. There is a scene where the film was sped up during a moment of comedic relief. I thought it was very appropriate and made the scene very funny. There is also a scene where the camera travels along a contraption that will ultimately be used towards Carrie's humiliation and then it completes its shot by focusing on the contraption's targets, Carrie and Tommy Ross.Lastly, I'll complete this by quoting the lines from the three scenes that constantly go through my head whenever I think about this movie:1) Carrie: I mean, all the kids think I'm funny, and I don't wanna be. I wanna be normal, I wanna start to try me, a whole person, before it's too late for me to -[Margaret throws tea on her face, Carrie wipes it off]2) Margaret White: Witch. Got Satan's Power.Carrie White: It has nothing to do with Satan, Mama. It's me. Me. If I concentrate hard enough, I can move things.3) Margaret White: And Eve was weak, say it!Carrie: No!Margaret White: Eve was weak!Carrie: No!Margaret White: Eve was weak, say it woman!Carrie: No!Margaret White: Say it!Carrie: Eve was weak, Eve was weak.

Sad but great horror movie.

Carrie is, purely in my opinion, Stephen King's best novel and this movie adaptation, also in my opinion, is his best. Brian DePalma knows how to work a scene, how to bleed it dry, and how to make it cathartic. And Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie have such amazing on-scene chemistry you believe every nuance of their emotionally-destructive relationship.Carrie White is one of fiction's most tragic characters. She wants a normal life, a life of love and happiness and, above all else, acceptance, and just when she sees glimpses of these things coming to fruition, just when you can cheer for her at her happiest moment, things go terribly wrong and the reality of her horrible life becomes real again. I went into Carrie knowing full well how the movie would end but I was still in torturous suspense as DePalma milked the prom scene in slow-motion for all it was worth. All building up to one of the most satisfyingly cathartic climaxes in horror movie history. You'll be hard-pressed to find a more terrifying and exciting visual than Carrie White, red with blood, standing on stage, the drapes behind her spilling fire. I've seen this movie at least five times since I was a kid and every single time my emotions are needle sharp by the end.If you want a horror movie with the kind of slow agonizing pacing and character building that makes you fall in love, then shatters your heart, then leads you with merriment into death and destruction - the kind of pacing and character building that is very rare in today's horror movies - I highly recommend Carrie!

Taking off the card, I damaged the cover a little because it was glued with liquid silicone

I just saw this original "Carrie" after having seen it on TV decades ago. I decided to make it my traditional Halloween evening film. I was afraid that on the second time around, since I had such a vivid memory of the first viewing, that there would be longish dull stretches. But there were none! And that is REALLY important for a classic, where you can savor every single scene. I will tread lightly for those few who have not seen it once. The pace is incredibly tight. Not once are there a few minutes where the story lags. Of course, Sissy Spacek is absolutely the perfect actor to play Carrie, at the perfect age, but she could not carry the movie alone. Piper Laurie is a truly scary character. I would not stay in the same house with her for more than five minutes. When she visits a neighbor, I imagine that the neighbor's skin began to crawl after only a few seconds. And yet, the difference between her and a lot of mothers is probably not that great. She is just creepy enough to push one over the edge. Aside from Spacek, I suggest the actors who contribute the most to the film are those who play Carrie White's classmates, Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, P. J. Soles, Michael Talbot, and Edie McClurg. Betty Buckley is believable as the gym teacher, but the teens steal scenes from her. This was Travolta's first important movie role, even before he was cast as Vinnie Barbarino on "Welcome Back, Kotter." He is good, but Katt and the four girls are even better. And, for you who have not yet seen it, this film has one of the very best climaxes of any horror film I have ever seen. I think for that we must thank Stephen King, who, I believe, used the same ending in more than one of his other books.I happened to look up the careers of the actors I mentioned, and I believe a lot of credit has to be given to the casting director, since for virtually every actor, including Betty Buckley, this was one of their first film appearances.