A pretty good film, with a few caveats

Rating: 7/10 (27 June 2020)

A pretty good film, with a few caveats. Sissy Spacek was fantastic in her role. It seems that the filmmakers purposely made her look as unattractive as possible. Nancy Allen was good as the villain, as were Amy Irving and P. J. Soles. Most of the cast, however, looked too old to be in high school, a flaw found in many, many films set there.
I was in high school at this time (1976) and a lot of the scenes don't really ring true. But my school was in a suburb of a large city, rather than a small town, and our proms weren't held at the school, but in hotel ballrooms miles away.
Anyway, I had read the book long ago, but never seen the movie until now. Stephen King makes every scene seem perfectly rendered on the page. This adaptation was pretty good, but I did find de Palma's direction a bit annoying at times.