I Felt Bad For Poor Carrie!

Rating: 7/10 (19 September 2013)

Based on Stephen King's first novel, this film tells the story of a shy teenage girl named Carrie White(Sissy Spacek in an unforgettable performance) who is mocked and humiliated by her cruel schoolmates, though one of them takes pity on her, and has her popular boyfriend(William Katt) ask Carrie to the prom, which she accepts, but tragically Carrie's mother(Piper Laurie, quite good) is a psychopathic religious zealot who keeps Carrie locked in the closet as punishment for her "sins", but Carrie defies her, though two evil expelled classmates(played by Nancy Allen & John Travolta) plot a cruel prank on her at the prom, which pushes Carrie over the edge, and makes her use her latent telekinetic powers in merciless revenge...
Fine performances and script compensate for some exploitive and obvious scare tactics in this memorable film, which elicits such sympathy for this unjustly put-upon girl that her rage at the end is understandable, though of course the poor girl is doomed...