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Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2001)

I really enjoyed this movie. I bought the book and finished it in one day. It enthralled me completley. The only minor annoying part in the book is that is stops and starts, just when your adrenalin is very high!!!! Well, the movie. . .
Spoilers
It begins with Carrie in the shower of her changing rooms at school. It is beautifully shot. The music is perfect, and the way the camera circles the room, showing the girls (in slow motion) changing and basically messing about. Then Carrie. She is in the shower on her own. Menstrual blood starts flowing down her leg. She runs out of the steam and cries in fear at the girls, blood on her hands. The girls throw tampons and sanitary napkins at her shouting "PLUG IT UP!!" over and over again. That can easily get you in tears if you were ever bullied in any way at school. Sooner or later Carrie finds her power (TELEKENIS) and at the prom: it BLOWS!!!
The cast is wonderful. Sissy Spacek: Oscar Piper Laurie: Oscar Amy Irving: Brilliant Jonh Travolta: Very Good William Katt: Outstanding
Sissy Spacek really makes you feel for Carrie. I think that her treatment all round, home and social, was the worst anyone could possibly endure. Chris is a bastard. The scene with the infamous pigs blood is on the edge of your seat, and holding onto the back so you don't fall off, screaming at Sue Snell to tell Carrie.
I hate Miss Collins (in the book Miss. Desjardin), and am in two minds if she hated Carrie and wanted her to be hurt. She laughed at Carrie the bi*ch!!!!!!!
I have to say a few last things before I go. I think the scenes before the prom are a bit rushed, lots is missed from the book. They are only minor parts though. You never get to know about 'the stones' or her father. Also you never see the full extent of Chris. In the film she isn't in it that much, but in the book she is in it a LOT. So is Billy Nolan. Oh well. One more thing about it. In the end of the book the WHOLE TOWN is destroyed. four hundred odd people are killed. You know the scene when Chris goes to kill Carrie? She does, then dies with Billy in the car. Sue Snell is a survivor. The book is a lot more sexual too. The scene with Billy and Chris outside the bar? Ya know the one, well they actually make love, not what they do. Sue Snell and Tommy Ross do it a lot too.
Oh well, hope this review and thingy was useful to y'all, and rent this. Bye!!
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