| Carrie |  | Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta, William Katt
Category: DVD
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Rating:  326 reviews
Sales Rank: 319879
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Danish (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050070006308
ASIN: B00005ABTU
Theatrical Release Date: November 3, 1976
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This terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel was directed by shock maestro Brian De Palma for maximum, no-holds-barred effect. Sissy Spacek stars as Carrie White, the beleaguered daughter of a religious kook (Piper Laurie) and a social outcast tormented by her cruel, insensitive classmates. When her rage turns into telekinetic powers, however, school's out in every sense of the word. De Palma's horrific climax in a school gym lingers forever in the memory, though the film is also built upon Spacek's remarkable performance and Piper Laurie's outlandishly creepy one. John Travolta has a small part as a thug, De Palma's future wife, Nancy Allen, is his girlfriend, and Amy Irving makes her screen debut as one of the girls giving Carrie a hard time. --Tom Keogh
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 just wild June 17, 2010
B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've always loved Stephen King films for his highly unusual writing talent and for the way he always delivers unexpected and bizarre twists, but I *completely* forgot how much I love Carrie!
I haven't seen this movie in quite a long time. In fact, it must have been 20 years since I last watched it. I completely forgot what it was about.
Carrie is the name of a teenage girl who has special powers- she has the ability to move objects with her mind. Her character is that she *constantly* gets picked on by all the girls in her gym class. They do some of the most revulting things imaginable to her.
Furthermore, her mother believes she is evil, so she constantly tries to save her daughter whenever the girl returns home from school by reading from the Bible, screaming in her daughters face that she's sinful, and other ways.
Basically, the girl has a bad life, haha. But... what goes around comes around, eh?
The majority of the storyline focuses on the senior prom dance, and what will happen when Carrie gets invited. Well I know one thing- her mother won't be happy about it, haha. This is when Carrie REALLY takes advantage of her special powers. She takes absolutely no crap from anyone, let's put it that way.
There are some unintentionally funny moments throughout the film, such as when the head girl in her gym class gets smacked around by her gym teacher and her boyfriend. It's because she doesn't know when to shut up, haha. She's *always* getting smacked around by someone.
John Travolta... WOW he looks young, haha. With long black hair, too. Surprising to see this. I didn't even recognize him at first.
Another interesting thing about the film is how Carrie becomes close to her gym teacher because she's the only one who understands how much Carrie is being picked on by her classmates. However, it's very surprising what happens to the gym teacher eventually.
Also, try to imagine school teachers acting the way they do in this film THESE days, haha. Hard to imagine.
This film is just really cool. It contains a really weird storyline, solid characters, and establishes Stephen King as a really good writer.
A Horror Flick That Really Holds Up May 19, 2010
John F. Rooney
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Even though it's thirty-four years old the horror flick "Carrie" (1976), made from the Stephen King novel, is still a very absorbing and chilling film. The young Sissy Spacek was perfect for the part, that thin body, those wide eyes with their translucent pupils, the whitest, palest of skins, that quality of other-worldliness, as if she's from another galaxy. Her classmates are stereotypical brats, and a few clichés erupt here and there - in fact, the only character who isn't a caricature is her gym teacher, the actress Betty Buckley.
Carrie's mother (Piper Laurie) is a Bible-thumping fanatic who could drive any daughter round the bend. Carrie White has super-developed kinetic powers that can make her move objects or people wherever she wills them to go. The final scenes in the gym on prom night when she really lets go are horrific. It's a wild climactic scene. How they ever made this into a musical, I'll never know. Betty Buckley was in it, and it flopped.
You don't want to play nasty tricks on Carrie because she can get back at you in spades. The initial shower scene in the film with adolescent female nudity was and is quite daring. When Carrie discovers menstruation, her female classmates turn vicious. Director Brian De Palma guides his film through the treacherous shoals of teenage cruelty, and even the young John Travolta shows up briefly to play a Neanderthal goof.
The movie holds up well and is worth watching to see Spacek's brilliant portrayal.
Horror Classic April 19, 2010
Lee Loren (Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are a Stephen King fan, this is a must have! It will definately keep your attention! I would not recommend that you let children under 13 watch it. The first time I saw it ,many moons ago, I had a few nightmares about it. the hand coming up out of the grave at the end scared the begeebers out of me!
 Poor Girl! April 8, 2010
Rudy Muck (Maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every time I see this movie, I want to protect this girl. Of course, later on, she proves that she doesn't need protecting. She needs to be protected FROM. I've had to endure my share of bullying in my day, so I can very easily sympathize with her. I put a stop to it by wrestling in high school. Never had to wrestle my tormentors because when I started wrestling, the tormenting stopped. But something about Carrie just tugs at the heartstrings. Poor girl never had a chance. Personally, I don't think she was aware of what she was doing when she created all that mischief and mayhem. She had just decided she'd had enough and something snapped. Carrie going on the rampage was sort of akin to a dam bursting. Once it bursts, you can't call back the irrevocable. Also, according to the book, she didn't kill Tommy Ross. He was killed instantly when the bucket hit him on the head. In fact, if you look closely, you see Carrie trying to catch him as he's falling before she goes into a rage. And I believe the sign that read CARRIE WHITE BURNS IN HELL FOR HER SINS isn't necessarily telling us she went to hell. I think this is just another example of the town's meanness, trying to get in one last cheap shot at her. Someone who deserved a better continuation of life, but that's Stephen King for you. Life isn't all happy endings, and I think that, if anything is the true horror of this story. And the movie told the story surprisingly well. Four out of five.
 Stephen King March 25, 2010
Joseph Adams (Superior, WI USA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
It's about this guy who asks a girl to prom as a joke. She has telekinesis. John Trovolta makes an appearance. The opening sequence sees Carrie White having her period in the gym shower and when her class mates throw tampons at her they all get detention. Though well acted, it doesn't deliver many scares. Worth a rental or two.
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