The film and the novel deal with a socially outcast teenage girl, carrie white, who discovers she possesses telekineticelectric powers. With sissy spacek, piper laurie, amy irving, john travolta. Carrie is a coming of age movie that starts off slow, but takes a right turn straight to hell. The diva dance the fifth element inva mula lucia di lammermoor duration. The film was produced by kevin misher, with a screenplay by lawrence d. If you disagree with its deletion, please explain why at category talk. Carrie movie 1976 sissy spacek, piper laurie, amy irving. Anyone who expected just another horror movie is obviously dissapointed. Stephen king wrote a few novels and a ton of short stories before he sold his first published novel, carrie. Stephen kings novel carrie, his first published book, appearing in 1975, propelled him into. Sep 16, 2016 to me, the most interesting relationship in the 1976 movie carrie, screenplay by lawrence d. Her peers are unaware that she possesses telekinetic powers.
Carrie s world is presented as a snake pit, where the welltodo female students all have fangs even the reticent sue snell amy irving and all the males are blind pawns, sexually twisted around the fingers of chris and her evil cronies. Oct 24, 20 the new carrie film, starring chloe moretz, is a pale copy of the classic 1970s horror movie. After an embarrassing incident causes her fellow pupils to tease carrie ruthlessly, her teacher severely disciplines the students. Carrie white is a shy 16yearold girl who lives with her fanatically religious and abusive mother, margaret. Anne billson spots the differences between the two versions.
It is based on a novel of the same name by stephen king. The novel was published in 1974, with the movie following a mere two years later in 1976. Carrie white, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers. Where brian depalmas 1976 version of stephen kings novel was a teenage girls nightmare as seen through the eyes of a straight male voyeur, this one looks through a wider lens, and strikes more universal notes of sympathy.
He genuinely seemed to like carrie, and he got blood on him as well. Carrie white, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her. By now, the story of carrie needs little introduction. A shy, unpopular and bullied 16yearold high school student named carrie white experiences her first period as she showers with her fellow female. Cohen seems to have made a pseudocareer from adapting stephen king stories like the tommyknockers 1993 and it 1990, as well as a rather simplified film adaptation of peter straubs novel ghost story 1981. Carrie 1976 movie simple english wikipedia, the free. Determined to have revenge, the other students hatch a plot against carrie, which turns horribly wrong when carrie s strange mental powers are unleashed during the school prom. The film was made one year after the publication of the novel and is considered a classic. The night of the spring dance arrives, carrie masters her telekinesis, stands up to her crazy mom, gets crowned homecoming queen, and has pigs blood dumped on her in front of. The film stars sissy spacek as 1718 year old carrie white. The plot revolves around carrie white sissy spacek, a socially outcast teenage girl who suffers frequent abuse from her. Help this sinning woman see the sin of her days and ways. High school senior carrie white is a social outcast, largely due to being unwise to the ways of the world based.
Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Possessing latent special abilities since childhood, carries journey into adolescence awakens the full potential of her powers, mainly in. This girl carrie isnt another stereotyped product of the horror production line. Oct 18, 20 the original carrie is the movie that made me want to be a critic. Cohen, based on the novel of the same name by prestigious horror writer stephen king. Additionally, the high school that carrie attends in the film is called bates high school. Based off the stephen king novel of the same name, carrie was the first stephen king property to be turned into a film, but definitely not the last. Its also and this is what makes it so good an observant human portrait. Stephen kings carrie has been adapted into four different movies. Sissy spacek, piper laurie, amy irving, william katt, john travolta, nancy allen, betty buckley. Thank goodness for that, as carrie ended up kings first published novel, and also the first king work to become a movie, just two years later in 1976. This classic horror movie based on stephen kings first novel stars sissy spacek as carrie white, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her. Sues guilt, chriss revenge plot, and the awakening of carries telekinetic powers. Candidates for deletion or improve the page and remove thedelete tag.
Jan 18, 2016 based off the stephen king novel of the same name, carrie was the first stephen king property to be turned into a film, but definitely not the last. Carrie white, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them. And the infamous ending, well, my mom tells me that when she and my dad went to see it in theaters, the front three rows jumped six rows back during the big dream sequence. Determined to seek revenge, the students hatch a plot against carrie, which turns horribly wrong when carries strange. It is the third film adaptation the others were in 1976 and 2002 of stephen king s 1974 novel of the same name and the fourth film in the carrie franchise.
To me, the most interesting relationship in the 1976 movie carrie, screenplay by lawrence d. Carrie is a 20 american supernatural horror drama film directed by kimberly peirce. Cohen, novel by stephen king, is the one between carrie and her mother margaret. Finally, since carrie in 1976, screenwriter lawrence d. The original carrie is the movie that made me want to be a. This classic horror movie based on stephen kings first novel stars sissy spacek as carrie white, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her smalltown high school. Carrie 1976 is the first and bestknown adaptation of the stephen king novel carrie. Carries world is presented as a snake pit, where the welltodo female students all have fangs even the reticent sue snell amy irving and all the males are blind pawns, sexually twisted around the fingers of chris and her evil cronies. When strange occurrences start happening around carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. The score was announced, and game point was announced. Her mother margaret julianne moore is a christian zealot prone to locking her in a small broom closet and making her pray for hours on end.
The other girls, being the sensitive creatures they are, yell at. Carrie whites house was 124 north 7th street, santa paula, a city north of the simi valley in ventura county. Carrie 1976 allmovie movies and films database movie. Carrie was the first of more than 100 film and television productions adapted from or based on the published works of stephen king. Everything in the book pretty much springs from carries first period. In this chilling adaptation of stephen kings horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen carrie white sissy spacek faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother piper laurie at home. It was stephen kings galvanizing plot, with its suggestion of the dawn of a new kind of girl. But i was recently rewatching it for the first time in a quite a few years. It was stephen kings galvanizing plot, with its suggestion of the dawn of a. That question is asked more than once in carrie, and it cuts to the heart of this new adaptation. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of carrie by stephen king. Plot summary for carrie 1976, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more.
Cohen seems to have made a pseudocareer from adapting stephen king stories like the tommyknockers 1993 and it 1990, as well as a rather simplified film adaptation of peter straubs novel ghost story. It stars chloe grace moretz as the title character, and julianne moore as her mother, margaret white. Carrie is a 1976 american supernatural horror movie. Carrie is a 1976 film about a shy, unpopular, friendless, and bullied 16year old girl outcast who is sheltered by her abusive, domineering, and fanatically religious mother, and unleashes her telekinetic powers and kills everyone with them for humiliating her after being humiliated by her classmates for the last time at her senior prom. The film stars sissy spacek as carrie white, a 16yearold diffident teenager who is consistently mocked and bullied at school. Oct 28, 20 everything in the book pretty much springs from carries first period. During the opening scene, the girls are playing volleyball. Unfortunately its since been demolished the plot still standing empty. Its a relatively faithful adaptation of kings story at least for the first twothirds that focuses entirely on carries story as it unfolds, eschewing the epistolary aspect of the novel the interviews, textbook excerpts and. Carrie 1976 in this chilling adaptation of stephen kings horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen carrie white sissy spacek faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her. Carrie was the first of kings novels to be adapted for film and television. Pin your corsages and slather on your flame retardant, because the movie rewatch of great nostalgia is back. Based on a stephen king novel, carrie is the story of a girl brought up, almost in isolation, by her psychotically religious mother margaret.
Cohen, adapted from stephen kings 1974 epistolary novel of the same name. Carrie is a 1976 american supernatural horrordrama film based on the 1974 novel of the same name by stephen king. The new carrie film, starring chloe moretz, is a pale copy of the classic 1970s horror movie. Todays entry concerns the official worst prom date of 1976, carrie. The other girls, being the sensitive creatures they are, yell at her and pelt her with tampons. Carrie 1976 piper laurie in carrie 1976 sissy spacek in carrie 1976. Aug 04, 2016 pin your corsages and slather on your flame retardant, because the movie rewatch of great nostalgia is back. When the ball is served it comes to sue, she hits the ball twice, in succession, which is against the rules, she is on the same team as carrie.