No horror movie based medium can be complete without Stephen King and his movies. I was very young when Stephen King actually began sending chills down people's spines and very soon it was just that I 'knew' Stephen King to be 'the' horror writer and had never seen any of his movies or even read his novels. It was only in late 2005 that I saw my first Stephen King's novel based movie - The Shawshank Redemption - and I was spellbound by this guy. I began looking around for more Stephen king material and I was awarded by this movie which is supposed to be one of the best Stephen King novels. Stephen King's novels are that extraordinary stuff that take on a lot of things, with a firm eye on giving people what they want - entertainment.
There have been several movies that have spoken about introvert, mild mannered and even gifted children, and have succeeded in showing a mirror to the way that the schools and their peers have treated them. Of course, all these messages get lost in transition somewhere, as the plot of the movie is actually quite different. So, these movies actually leave us with the impotent frustration of seeing someone being bullied by youngsters who do not know better and their parents who have much more to think about in their lives.
Carrie is a bullied, somewhat unfitting young lady who is the butt of jokes in her school, simply because she is a bit introvert. She has a hard life at home, with her overzealous religious mother using the Bible for almost everything. Things take a bad turn when she menstruates in the school bathroom, which leads to a brutal ragging by all the other students, telling her to 'plug it up'. After this situation, Carrie begins to understand her extra ordinary powers of telekinesis.
The school teachers do not take kindly to the ragging, and hold all the students onto detention and suspension, and one of the students think that they were too harsh on the girl, and therefore requests her boyfriend to take her to the prom. Life is not as simple though, as one of the other girls confide with her boyfriend to plunge Carrie with pig's blood.
As Carrie is crowned the Prom Queen, the Pig's Blood pail falls onto her, and this is what creates the scenario for the brutal end of the movie. Carrie has now taken complete control of her telekinesis powers,and uses them to put some scum of the universe back where they belong, dead. It is only when she goes home that she finds out about her mother, who had told her not to go to the Prom has been waiting for her, as she thinks that she is taken by the devil. Carrie kills her mother and then burns up the whole house.
The movie begins with a few girls playing basketball in the school playground and you are immediately introduced to Carrey (Sissy Spacel) as she fails to take a pass and that ends the game. Everyone goes upto her and someone even hits her with a hand or something.
We are later taken to a scene which seems right out of an T&A movie, wherein the camera makes up its mind to show us some of the better things before we get on to the gruesome. Think about it, young high school girls showing their '80s thatches in slowmotion. Yes, I do not know why the scene is filmed in slowmotion, but it is filmed in slow motion.
The slowmotion ends when Carrie begins menstruating in the bathroom and is turned into a ball of nervous fear, and all the girls gang up on her with chants of 'Plug it up'. Her savior this time is the PE teacher, who talks to the Principal about this, and this is where we see Carrie's telekinesis powers for the second time .The Principal, for some unknown reason calls her Cassie repeatedly, and finally, she shouts out that her name is Carrie, causing the ashtray to fall down and break.
Carrie's telekinesis powers are shown once again when she throws a boy off his cycle as he just begins to hound her as 'Creepy Carrie'. When Carrie gets home, we are introduced to her ultra religious mother, who has basically spent the most part of her life trying to keep her daughter chaste and succeeded in keeping a good social life out of her reach.
When the mother finds out about the issue at school, she proclaims that sin is getting into her daughter and closes her in the closet, and after a while, proceeds to sew. After a while, Carrie comes out and bids her mother good night, and this is where she once again uses her telekinesis powers, to keep her mother locked out for a while, and not to mention, break the mirror in her room.
Carrie's life does not change much, as it is evident that even the school teachers do not leave a chance to take a potshot on her. We are introduced to Michael, a typical curly haired hunk of the '80s and his poem, which is read out in the class, and when the schoolteacher asks for any critics, Carrie is the one who mutters that it is 'beautiful', making way for another rebuke, this time from the teacher. While a little farther away, another teacher is taking all the female students who made life hell for Carrie to task, by informing them that they have to be in 'her' detention for seven days, failing which they will not be allowed to go to the prom dance. If you think which face could conjure up such a evil trick, here it is:
While some of the girls are still booing about what has happened, Michael's girlfriend really thought that what she has done is wrong and therefore goes ahead and talks to Michael and the Schoolteacher about allowing Carrie and Michael to be part of the Prom together. After much reluctance, the teacher agrees, thinking that there will be at least some happiness in Carrie's life.
However, evil people are abound everywhere, and one of them happens to be the girl who is seemingly the brat of the pack and the leader of the brat pack, Sue Snell and her boyfriend Billy Nolan. The two connive together to make Carrie's prom dance a memorable event, while at the same time Carrie learns what her powers are meant for and what they do from one of the books in the library.
On prom night, Carrie's mother repeatedly begs with her not to go to the Prom Night, but this is one of the few times when Carrie uses her powers for her profit, by locking her mother in her bed with her powers. Her mother repeatedly tells her that 'they are gonna laugh at you'.
Everything goes as planned on prom night, and Carrie is treated well and even gets a good dance, with both of them voting for themselves during the prom night as Prom Queen and Prom King. When Carrie wins the award along with Tommy, she walks up to the stage to get the prize, and that is when hell freezes over, as the pig's blood pail drenches her with blood and knocks down Tommy.
What follows next is a hellish account of how Carrie kills everyone in the Prom, or at least injures grievously, first by locking all of them in the school hall, then hosing them and finally, even electrocuting some of them. When she walks away, Sue and Billy try to run over her with their car, but Carrie once again uses her powers to crash and burn their car.
When Carrie comes home, her mother informs her that she has been possesses and that they should do something to help her. Carries mother attacks her, and Carrie uses her telekineses once more, to kill her own mother with the daggers lying nearby. Devastated by everything, Carrie finally sets the whole house on fire, along with her mother and her.
At the time of release, the climax was supposed to be one of the more brutal climaxes that were present in movies. Of course, all that has changed since the '80s, but here is a clip from YouTube that shows what was brutal back then:
Synopsis:
The movie begins with a few girls playing basketball in the school playground and you are immediately introduced to Carrey (Sissy Spacel) as she fails to take a pass and that ends the game. Everyone goes upto her and someone even hits her with a hand or something.
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| She seems sorry, leave her alone already |
We are later taken to a scene which seems right out of an T&A movie, wherein the camera makes up its mind to show us some of the better things before we get on to the gruesome. Think about it, young high school girls showing their '80s thatches in slowmotion. Yes, I do not know why the scene is filmed in slowmotion, but it is filmed in slow motion.
The slowmotion ends when Carrie begins menstruating in the bathroom and is turned into a ball of nervous fear, and all the girls gang up on her with chants of 'Plug it up'. Her savior this time is the PE teacher, who talks to the Principal about this, and this is where we see Carrie's telekinesis powers for the second time .The Principal, for some unknown reason calls her Cassie repeatedly, and finally, she shouts out that her name is Carrie, causing the ashtray to fall down and break.
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| This Guy says 'S' for 'R'. |
Carrie's telekinesis powers are shown once again when she throws a boy off his cycle as he just begins to hound her as 'Creepy Carrie'. When Carrie gets home, we are introduced to her ultra religious mother, who has basically spent the most part of her life trying to keep her daughter chaste and succeeded in keeping a good social life out of her reach.
When the mother finds out about the issue at school, she proclaims that sin is getting into her daughter and closes her in the closet, and after a while, proceeds to sew. After a while, Carrie comes out and bids her mother good night, and this is where she once again uses her telekinesis powers, to keep her mother locked out for a while, and not to mention, break the mirror in her room.
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| Here's the mother who just closed her daughter in a coop a while ago. |
Carrie's life does not change much, as it is evident that even the school teachers do not leave a chance to take a potshot on her. We are introduced to Michael, a typical curly haired hunk of the '80s and his poem, which is read out in the class, and when the schoolteacher asks for any critics, Carrie is the one who mutters that it is 'beautiful', making way for another rebuke, this time from the teacher. While a little farther away, another teacher is taking all the female students who made life hell for Carrie to task, by informing them that they have to be in 'her' detention for seven days, failing which they will not be allowed to go to the prom dance. If you think which face could conjure up such a evil trick, here it is:
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| Never Judge a Book By its... |
While some of the girls are still booing about what has happened, Michael's girlfriend really thought that what she has done is wrong and therefore goes ahead and talks to Michael and the Schoolteacher about allowing Carrie and Michael to be part of the Prom together. After much reluctance, the teacher agrees, thinking that there will be at least some happiness in Carrie's life.
However, evil people are abound everywhere, and one of them happens to be the girl who is seemingly the brat of the pack and the leader of the brat pack, Sue Snell and her boyfriend Billy Nolan. The two connive together to make Carrie's prom dance a memorable event, while at the same time Carrie learns what her powers are meant for and what they do from one of the books in the library.
On prom night, Carrie's mother repeatedly begs with her not to go to the Prom Night, but this is one of the few times when Carrie uses her powers for her profit, by locking her mother in her bed with her powers. Her mother repeatedly tells her that 'they are gonna laugh at you'.
Everything goes as planned on prom night, and Carrie is treated well and even gets a good dance, with both of them voting for themselves during the prom night as Prom Queen and Prom King. When Carrie wins the award along with Tommy, she walks up to the stage to get the prize, and that is when hell freezes over, as the pig's blood pail drenches her with blood and knocks down Tommy.
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| One of the most iconic scenes |
What follows next is a hellish account of how Carrie kills everyone in the Prom, or at least injures grievously, first by locking all of them in the school hall, then hosing them and finally, even electrocuting some of them. When she walks away, Sue and Billy try to run over her with their car, but Carrie once again uses her powers to crash and burn their car.
When Carrie comes home, her mother informs her that she has been possesses and that they should do something to help her. Carries mother attacks her, and Carrie uses her telekineses once more, to kill her own mother with the daggers lying nearby. Devastated by everything, Carrie finally sets the whole house on fire, along with her mother and her.
At the time of release, the climax was supposed to be one of the more brutal climaxes that were present in movies. Of course, all that has changed since the '80s, but here is a clip from YouTube that shows what was brutal back then:
