Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering... Read allCarrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.
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- Lou Garson
- (as Tyler Foley)
- Little Carrie
- (as Jodelle Micah Ferland)
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- TriviaThis is the only adaptation of "Carrie" which has interviews with the survivors of Prom Night, as in King's original novel.
- GoofsCarrie's hair is already wet and there is already blood splashed all over the floor when the first drops hit her face.
- Quotes
Estelle Horan: [wakes up to find Carrie standing next to her] Hi.
Little Carrie: What are those?
Estelle Horan: Breasts.
Little Carrie: I wish I had some.
Estelle Horan: You'll have to wait a few years, but you'll get them, and I bet they'll be really pretty too.
Little Carrie: No, I won't. Momma says good girls don't get them.
Estelle Horan: She said what?
Little Carrie: Mommy says good girls don't get...
Estelle Horan: Your mom is such a total hypocrite, she's like a C-cup.
Little Carrie: Momma says she was bad when she made me. That's why she has them, she calls them dirty pillows.
Estelle Horan: Wow.
Margaret White: [sees Carrie talking to Estelle] Carrie! Get over here, what did I tell you?
Estelle's Mother: [sees Margaret stepping out of her home] Afternoon Margaret.
Estelle Horan: Calm down Margaret, we're just talking.
Margaret White: Don't tell me to calm down, whore girl.
Estelle's Mother: Now Margaret, I asked you not to call my daughter that.
Estelle Horan: Suck it you cow!
Estelle's Mother: Estelle!
Margaret White: [grabbing Carrie's hand] Get in this house right now!
Estelle Horan: Do yourself a favor and run away from home!
Estelle's Mother: Estelle! Quiet!
Estelle Horan: Margaret says I have boobs because I was a slut.
Estelle's Mother: She said what?
- ConnectionsFeatured in De Palma (2015)
- SoundtracksOutside, Looking In
Written by Mark Nubar, ShyBoy, and Jeeve
Performed by Hypnogaja
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Angela Bettis (GIRL INTERRUPTED) has the unenviable task of stepping into the shoes (and the prom dress) of Sissy Spacek in the title role of a New England teen tortured at school by cruel classmates (because she doesn't belong) and at home by her religiously fanatical mother (Patricia Clarkson, in the Piper Laurie role). Soon, she discovers she has telekinetic powers; and when the most gruesome of gags is played on her on prom night, all bets are off.
Though looking much more glazed in the eyes than Spacek ever did, Bettis gives a fairly good performance as Carrie; and Clarkson's portrayal of her uprighteous mother is much more low-key, but no less threatening, than Laurie's portrayal. The special effects, however obvious they might be, are also quite good. But in the end, the reputation of the 1976 original, with its combination of psychological horror and teen-angst drama, still hovers over this remake. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the pig's blood scene. It doesn't have the same jarring emotional impact this time around--not so much because we've seen it before, but because here it looks slightly laughable when the blood gets poured onto Bettis. Because of DePalma's use of slow-motion in the original, the blood hits Spacek like a tidal wave.
I give the CARRIE remake a '6' just for trying. I only regret that its shortcomings as a film have less to do with its execution as a film than the fact that the original movie still resonates much more fully.
- virek213
- Nov 6, 2002
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