Powerful and Shocking.

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2006)

*SPOILERS Ahoy!* During a communal shower with the other girls in her gym class, school laughingstock Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) has her first menstruations and asks for help, believing she was going to bleed to death, her crazy, psycho, religious fanatic mother Margaret (Piper Laurie) having told her NOTHING about laws of nature, believing menstrual blood to be a sin. The other girls taunt her mercilessly, throwing Tampax at her and screaming 'PLUG IT UP, PLUG IT UP!'. The gym teacher (Betty Buckley) gives detention to all the girls, and refusal of their Prom tickets (if only she actually DID prevent all of them from going to their Prom) if they don't do it.
School bully Chris Hargensen (Nancy Allen) has an argument with the teacher, and ends up slapped (very deservedly!), but most importantly, excluded from the Prom. So, when she finds out Carrie, who is trying to become her own person and get away from her mother, will go to the Prom with none other than Tommy Ross (William Katt with the Perm From Hell), one of the most Popular Guys in their High School and boyfriend of Sue Snell (Amy Irving in her first movie role), who felt guilty for the 'plug it up' affair and decided to help Carrie, Christine (curiously, a name reused by King for another source of Evil - the car Christine from the book (and film) of the same title) decides to get help from her boyfriend Billy (John Travolta) and prepare a heinous joke - a bucket of pig's blood, ready to be dumped on Carrie just as she is going to be the happiest she'll ever be.
Little does anyone know Carrie has the psychic power of telekinesis, enabling her to move or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind...
Probably, it's weird to say it, but 'Carrie' is the movie that illustrates best the issues of bullism and faints, and blows the pathetic stereotype of girls being all best friends of each other, swapping makeup and gossiping about boys to shreds, Modern Feminism be damned.
A movie not to miss, especially if you were popular in high school, to have an understanding of what the other kids who weren't popular were going through.