A classic

Rating: Null/10 (2 March 2002)

Though CARRIE isn't a ride for blood and gore, it still manages to bring satisfaction. There are few scenes with visual campaigns that pictures Carrie's psychic powers in Stephen King's novel, but the movie sets her degree of power at a lower range. The highlight of this movie is basically the Prom night near the end, that is where Carrie exposes her hidden potential before her class mates. Even though there's a good pacing, superb acting, and pleasing special effects (the mirror shatters), but there's still something that I find disappointing. It's probably the degree of Carrie's power that disappointed me. I saw the movie before I read the book, at first I was stunned by the cleverly written screenplay (great dialogues and scene transitions) and some cool special effects. But after I read the book, I found quite some missing links like Susan's psychic link with Carrie at the end and the falling rocks. The biggest change is probably the Prom night, Carrie in the book destroys the whole town, but in the movie she only burned the school. Anyhow, that doesn't damage the movie itself, its a great movie and its an absolute classic.
10/10