Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 10/07/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French/KO/Cantonese
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DTS/DD1/DD5.1
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Rape & Sexual Abuse, Not For Children, Profanity, Watch With Your Teen
Distributor/Studio: MGM
This classic
horror movie based on
Stephen King's first novel stars
Sissy Spacek as
Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her fanatical mother,
Margaret (
Piper Laurie), only causes her classmates' vicious cruelty to escalate, despite the attentions of her overly solicitous gym teacher (
Betty Buckley). Finally, when the venomous
Chris Hargenson (
Nancy Allen) engineers a reprehensible prank at the school prom,
Carrie lashes out in a horrifying display of her heretofore minor telekinetic powers. Many films had featured school bullies, but
Carrie was one of the first to focus on the special brand of cruelty unique to teenage girls.
Carrie's world is presented as a snake pit, where the well-to-do 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. The talented supporting cast includes
John Travolta,
P.J. Soles, and
William Katt. One of the genre's true classics, the film was followed by a sequel in 1999, as well as by a famously unsuccessful Broadway
musical adaptation that starred
Betty Buckley, the movie's gym teacher, as
Margaret White.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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