Loathe among the stars

Rating: Null/10 (24 March 1999)

No doubt "Carrie" is the best horror movie ever - a masterpiece - and one of my all time favorite too, of course! Carrie's sad (and tragic) story is told by Brian De Palma with such brilliance and care that even if you hate horror movies, you'll adore this one. It has not that 'second-rate' treatment of the normal movies of this genre. De Palma is an assumed Hitchcock follower. Sissy Spacek is REALLY outstanding as Carrie, she depicts her role breathtakingly through the whole film and Piper Laurie (playing Carrie's mother) is no less worth mentioning too. Both were Oscar Nominees in 1976 (Spacek as Best Actress and Laurie as Best Supporting Actress) but they didn't win. What really matters is that never had a horror movie got such achievement. The rest of the cast is also excellent (many of them became stars after this film) and keeps spectators unmovable until the final sequence. Simply terrific.