An important horror film

Rating: 9/10 (5 August 1999)

A girl endowed with psychic powers suffers in her authoritarian and manipulator mother's hands. Equally humiliated and mistreated in the school, the girl's fury explodes during the prom party, and using her special capacity she leads off a massacre.Cruel and violent film directed with mastery by experienced Brian De Palma.As he demonstrated later on with "The Fury" (a thriller with Carrie Snodgress and Kirk Douglas) and "The Untouchables", De Palma doesn't open concessions and in "Carrie" he narrates with a touching eye the story of a girl who suffers for her difference in a direct and painful way.But it is in the most shocking part, in which the hate, resentment and the girl's pain come to the surface, that he is consecrated as the most probable Hitchcock's successor : abusing of quick cuts, slow motion and division of the screen in two or more plans, he demonstrates that he has the domain over the language of the violence,in one of the most distressing and unforgettable sequences of cinema history.