Dirty Pillows.....

Rating: 9/10 (25 October 2013)

Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her first period, one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom.
But another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour, is not as forgiving, and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school.
What she doesn't realise is that Carrie is gifted, and further embarrassment may cause a rage.......
Along with The Shining and Misery, this is the best King adaptation ever committed to film. Its taut, filled with sinister tension, and Spacek gives a career best performance.
De Palma has crafted an intricate horror film, and many of his traits seen in later movies are evident here, and add a little more to the movie. If it wasn't for the auteur, we wouldn't have had the split screen during the finale, and it wouldn't be as tense as it is.
But Piper Laurie steals the show as Mother, and whenever the film is set in the White household, the film turns into something different, the angles and the lighting change, and the film becomes more eerie.
The prom scene is crafted beautifully, and even though you know the bucket will drop, it's still the longest drawn scene in a movie and the aftermath fits the crime, so to say.
All in all, its a wonderful horror movie, filled with beautiful cinematography, and wonderfully filmed backwards finale.
See this before the remake.