One of the best horror movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2017)

Brian De Palma's "Carrie" is not only one of the best horror movies ever made it is also on e of the best Stephen King adaptations that I have seen in a long time. Based on the novel "Carrie" by Stephen King the movie stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White a high school senior who is also not a very social person and who gets bullied by other girls in her class and is also has a religious nut for a mother named Margaret (Piper Laurie),also in the movie the only friend she seems to have is her gym teacher Ms. Collins (Betty Buckley), then afterwords a girl in her grade named Sue (Amy Irving) has a conversation with her boyfriend Tommy Ross (William Katt) to take Carrie to the senior prom but at first Carrie doesn't know anything about it until Tommy drives over to her house but at first she is very reluctant to accept his offer to take her offer (because she told her mother and was forced to say no) but it would eventually take a few more tries before she accepts his offer. Then the night before the prom starts two teenagers named Billy Nolan (John Travolta) and Chris Hargensen (Nancy Allen) go to a farm and slaughter a pig and pour it's blood into a bucket in order to ruin Carrie's most exciting moment of her life which I won't give anything else away here. Brian De Palma and his screenwriter Lawrence Cohen do a very good job here at including the jump scares at the right moments. The movie is also ranked with "Poltergeist" (1982), "Psycho" (1960), and "The Shining" (1980) as one of the best horror films ever made. Also Carrie has telekinetic powers which she learned how to use with the sole purpose of defending herself from her own mother and her enemies. The movie behaves like a Hitchcockian thriller that was filmed by a rookie director. Both Spacek and Laurie should have won Oscars for their performances in this movie and both of them gave the best performances of their careers. This is one of the best movies of 1976, Period.