Teaming together helps towards achieving a bigger goal!

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 2006)

Carrie still is quite a lot of fun, despite the fact that much more violent and shocking movies have come our way ever since it was released way back in 1976. I remember seeing this on TV (probably in 1978) and being pretty amazed by it. I distinctly remember John Travolta slaughtering that pig, and wondering why someone as cool as Vinne Barbarino would do such a thing. Anyways, I'm sure all of you know by now that this is the tale of one Carrie White, a homely high school girl with some tricky telekinetic powers. Her Mom (HILARIOUSLY played up by Piper Laurie) well, is a nit off the deep end, so Carrie can't really go to her when she's developing some, well, developmental issues at school, and therefore picked on mercilessly by the other students. Fortunately, the phys-ed teacher protects Carrie and punishes the girls for picking on Carrie. The girls strike back though, of course on Carrie and not on the Phys-Ed teacher, by developing an ingenious plan which involves pig's blood, rigging the prom balloting, rigging the set of the prom and getting the school jock to invite Carrie to the prom. So while yes, this movie is about Carrie's problems, I just love the film's underlying theme of banding together to achieve a bigger goal! It's like a twisted educational film! "Chris realized she would need some help in the mean prank against Carrie. So she recruited some friends to help her! Billy got the pig's blood, Freddy got on the polling committee etc etc" Goofy fun! The only problem I had with this, is the question of WHY Tommy asked Carrie to the prom, it's never explained, and I found it surprising that he nor his girlfriend (played by Amy Irving) wasn't in on what was going to happen. That just made everything confusing.