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The more you think about it, the more you'll marvel at how bad this adaptation should have been. Forget the Curse of King, since there are actually quite a few good Stephen King movies out there (The Shining, The Dead Zone, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile). Just consider the source material. Carrie is a book of cruelty, pain, tragedy and psychological torture. It's set in high school, yeah, but that doesn't mean it isn't packed with bitch queens from hell. Carrie is tragically stunted, mentally and emotionally, by her Bible-bashing mother. She's picked on viciously by the clique at school. For the first time in her life she's shown some kindness when Tommy invites her to the prom, but then... hell, we all know what happens then. It's one of the most famous scenes in the movies.
In the original book, I don't think Stephen King ever got past the pain. Novelists take you inside their characters' minds - and Carrie is the tragedy of a deeply damaged individual. King didn't exactly go for laughs. It's a good book, but it doesn't have a light touch.
I was rather nervous about watching this movie, half-expecting to come away depressed as hell, but Brian De Palma's directorial control is masterly. Carrie the movie can be beautiful, tragic or disturbing when it wants to be, but for much of its running time it's just plain funny.
Then, having kept Carrie relatively clear of the limelight, the film starts taking more interest in her once Tommy's asked her out and her life sets off on an upward curve. This culminates in the prom scene, which (until a certain point) I found almost beautiful. Sissy Spacek gives a brave performance as this downtrodden creature taking her first few faltering steps into a world of happiness and normal people.
And then comes... *that*. Even someone plucked from an Amazonian rain forest would still get the message well in advance. De Palma wants us to know. It's part of that ironic thing he's got going, in which we can simultaneously feel pleasure at Carrie's happiness and see the double-edged references to what's coming. Sure enough, it hits and it's a bloody nightmare, but note how carefully De Palma handles the transition from happiness to horror. He doesn't just spring it on us as a shock. He gives Carrie's moment in the spotlight its true weight - makes it *real* - and only then lets inevitability take over. No matter what happened later, for a few hours that night Carrie was truly happy.
The character dynamics are full of wicked detail. Chris (Nancy Allen) is a power freak, so enamoured with being Queen Bee of her peer group that she deludes herself into thinking she can even push around her teacher. She doesn't care a jot about her boyfriend (John Travolta, in the best role of his early career) but she'll happily give him fellatio to keep him under her control.
The men are almost all ineffectual, stupid, silly or stooges. The only one with any moral strength at all is Tommy - and even he only asks out Carrie because his girlfriend ordered him to. (That's a telling, clever alteration to King's novel, incidentally.) John Travolta's character is a no-good dickhead who does something insane and horrible merely because his bitch girlfriend told him to. The male teachers are a joke. The women are the real players in this film, pulling their men's strings and enforcing the playground pecking order like a dictator's secret police.
Carrie's mum (Margaret White, played by Piper Laurie) is interesting, too. She's a religious nut, but not actually a stupid one. Her chief motivation is self-hatred. As a neighbour she's annoying but as a mother she's a monster, using religion as a scourge so fiercely that she's blind to her daughter's wants and needs. (She and Carrie also have that Southern accent that I associate with American TV evangelists, which felt like a sly touch.) And man, that's the scariest Jesus statuette ever.
Oh, and apparently this was Piper Laurie's first film since The Hustler (1961) fifteen years earlier and she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the Oscars for both films. And this despite the Academy's tradition of overlooking the horror genre. Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film. It is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name, though MGM and Screen Gems, who are producing the film, employed a Directed by Kimberly Peirce. With Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday. A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie Carrie is an American epistolary novel and author Stephen King's first published novel, released on April 5, 1974, with an approximate first print-run of 30,000 Review: It boasts a talented cast, but Kimberly Peirce's "reimagining" of Brian De Palma's horror classic finds little new in the Stephen King novel