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Title: Carrie (1976)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sissy Spacek | ... | Carrie | |
| Piper Laurie | ... | Margaret White | |
| Amy Irving | ... | Sue Snell | |
| William Katt | ... | Tommy Ross | |
| John Travolta | ... | Billy Nolan | |
| Nancy Allen | ... | Chris Hargensen | |
| Betty Buckley | ... | Miss Collins | |
| P.J. Soles | ... | Norma | |
| Priscilla Pointer | ... | Mrs. Snell | |
| Sydney Lassick | ... | Mr. Fromm | |
| Stefan Gierasch | ... | Mr. Morton | |
| Michael Talbott | ... | Freddy | |
| Doug Cox | ... | The Beak | |
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Harry Gold | ... | George |
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Noelle North | ... | Frieda |
It's nearing the end of the school year. High school senior Carrie White is a social outcast, largely due to being unwise to the ways of the world based on her upbringing. Her mother, Margaret White, is a religious fanatic, her extreme views primarily targeted against sex, which she believes is a sin. She even believes natural associated processes such as menstruation are a sin, about which she has refused to mention to Carrie. Mrs. White's beliefs were taken to that extreme largely because of her own failed marriage and her husband Ralph long ago having run off with another woman. The only adult authority figure who tries to help Carrie with her life is her phys ed teacher, Miss Collins, who is nonetheless warned not to get too close to go against how Mrs. White chooses to raise Carrie, Mrs. White whose beliefs are well known in the community. An impromptu event that happens among Carrie's phys ed classmates against her leads to her classmates being punished. One of those students, ... Written by Huggo
It is a classic offbeat horror-melodrama merging harmoniously the family Gothic extravaganza, supernatural power, and a woman's movie of a peculiar kind It remains the cinema's best adaptation of a Stephen King novel
The film initiated De Palma's inclination for surprise diverts between playful imagination and reality, as in the opening, which swifts from a soft-core porn fantasia of girls taking a shower in the locker room to the fact of Carrie's menstruation for the first timethe first sign of "otherness" that will reserve her as an horrifying monster from her small-minded colleagues
All the oppression that Carrie undergoes both at home (with a bible beating maniacal mother played by scary Piper Laurie who develops twisted bizarre ideas) and at school to suppress tension which takes the shape of super telekinetic power, the ability to move objects with the strength of her mind We observe with ambivalence as Carrie's insatiable revenge jumps the line into uncontrolled mass murders ever filmed
Sissy Spacek is amazing as the mocked, helpless girl pushed over the edge Her face and body twist like a living special effect to unleash her pent up rage, as well as her character's alarming progress from painfully shy high-school teenager to Angel of Vengeance