A well carried hit, helped deeply by Travolta and Allen's performances

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2013)

Carrie is not a horror movie, I'm fond of. But given that said, it's still a good quality horror movie, from a novel, penned by a horror writer icon. Carrie (Sissy Spacek-perfect) is a student outcast, who at the start, endures a horrible, if intolerable cruelty, that's nothing compared to that trademark scene later, involving pig's blood. Travolta and Allen as high school students, (scene stealers) play such nasty characters, I wouldn't want to imagine characters being real. You so much want them to die, and when they do, it's almost euphoric. That goes too, for Allen's bitchy friend (P.J Soles). Carrie, though has an advantage, a telekinetic ability to make things move, like one instance involving a young boy (Director De Palma's actual son) hitting Carrie with insults, before he's literally tripped up on his bike, with having no understanding of how he ended on the ground as he fondles his sore knee. One high school student, (Amy Irving) and her jock boyfriend (Willian Katt) lagging behind in the acting department, try to help her out. As a favor to Irving she pesters Katt to take Carrie to the prom. He finally succumbs, so you obviously knows what's to ensue, when Carrie who can no longer suppress all her rage and torment, goes full throttle with her special gift, after that sick pig blood stunt (I still recall Soles's sick excited smile) which has tragic consequences for many a party. Allen is such a bi..h in this movie, she really shows us as proved in other films, just what an underrated actress she is. I loved her in Robocop. Her and Travolta make one hell of a couple, and watching P.E. teacher (Betty Buckley) go head to head with Allen was grand. Carrie is a well formulated horror film, every scene fitting the movie perfectly the way pieces fit in a jigsaw. The only criticism was the hand coming out of the grave at the end, but worth it's watch in a shock moment.