Spacek is excellent in an all right film

Rating: Null/10 (5 June 2000)

Sissy Spacek is what makes this otherwise average movie so good. She makes Carrie the pathetic, sad person that we all feel for as she is tormented by her classmates and then at home by her religious fanatic mother (Piper Laurie in an unforgetable role). Carrie soon discovers she has telekinetic powers and what starts out as an innocent discovery turns deadly when her classmates pull one last prank on her at the prom. It is here where Carrie unleashes her powers and we see the full power behind this sad girl. The movie itself is all right, but truly hinges on Spacek and Laurie. The rest of the cast does their best to keep up, but it is these two that make the movie worth watching.