Carrie (short films)

* Young adult
* Preteen
* Adult

**Carrie** is the protagonist of the 2018 short film *The Door in the Woods* and the titular protagonist of its 2020 sequel, *The Girl in the Woods*. As a child, Carrie lead a group of her friends to a hidden door in the woods, which their colony was meant to protect. Not believing the legend to be true, the children released The Brute and it went on a rampage, killing the entire town save for Carrie, who managed to shut the creature back in its door, losing her left arm in the process.

Carrie was then found by the only other survivor of the massacre, a farmer named Arthur Dean. Arthur would raise Carrie until his death at the hands of one of the Scarlet Sirens. Seven years later, Carrie, now with a robotic arm Arthur had given her, would return to The Door with the intention to kill the Brute inside.

She is portrayed by Carissa Bazler as a preteen, Peyton List as a young adult, and Annika Foster in the post-credits scene of Water's Edge. She is portrayed by Stefanie Scott in the Peacock adaptation.

## Physical Appearance

### The Girl in the Woods

In *The Girl in the Woods*, Carrie has grown into an adult. Her hair is shorter now and is tied in a single braid behind her head, and she has several scars. She now has a robotic arm, which has a retractable blade made from a Torment Fragment. She wears Arthur's old clothes.

### The Door in the Woods

In *The Door in the Woods*, Carrie is a young girl most likely in her early preteens. She has Caucasian skin, wears a blue knee-length, short-sleeved dress overtop a white apron, white socks, and white sneakers. She has dirty-blonde hair that is parted in the middle of her forehead and tied back in a two braided ponytails. When she is attacked by The Brute, it tears off her left arm.

### Water's Edge

In the post-credits scene of *Water's Edge*, Carrie has grown even further. She has lost her cybernetic arm, and now carries an axe. She still wears Arthur's clothes.

## Characteristics

Before the events of the first film, Carrie appeared to be a relatively normal child. As a budding teenager, she seemed prone to pushing back against the adults in the colony and likely did not take the warnings about The Door seriously, believing the tales of it and The Brute to be stories meant to frighten children into behaving and staying out of the woods.

After the events of The Door in the Woods, Carrie developed an untreated case of post-traumatic stress disorder, which is only exacerbated by the death of Arthur. She would continue blames herself for the deaths of Arthur and her colony, allowing herself to become jaded and consumed by her hatred for The Brute, training herself not to protect the door, but to destroy what lies behind it. It would appear that this hatred for the monster has become her sole reason for survival, as she has a breakdown after failing to kill it.

## Background

Carrie was born to a woman named Bethany and her husband Marcus. She was raised in a township known only as The Colony, which was hidden away from the rest of the world deep in the woods. As a child, she was told stories about the door in the woods, and that it was The Colony's job to keep the Brute locked inside. Her father was a member of The High Order, and as such was privy to extremely valuable information about the door, such as its location. It is unknown to what extent if any that Carrie believed these stories, but she didn't take them seriously.

## Crypt Monster Universe

*Note: These events are listed in the time frame it is believed that they occurred, not in the order of the films' release.*

### *The Door in the Woods* (2018)

Carrie takes her three friends on a trek to find the door their colony was meant to protect. After what felt like hours, they finally found the arcane door, and Carrie's friends pressured one of them to open it. To their horror, the stories were proven true as The Brute came out of the door and attacked the friend who opened the door, taking out Carrie's other friend as they tried to run away. Carrie managed to get to her parents and hide from The Brute, where her father Marcus began to throttle her for damning the colony. Carrie's family set out to find a way to get The Brute back in its door, but it attacked Carrie's mother when they got out into the streets. This bought Carrie and her father time to escape into the woods, where Marcus left her near a grove as he went to find the door. A terrified Carrie went after him, only to learn that Marcus intended to use her as bait to get The Brute back inside. However, The Brute attacked Marcus instead, falling back into the door as he did so. Carrie got up and tried to shut the door, but The Brute tried to escape again and ate Carrie's left arm. Despite the shock, Carrie was able to seal The Brute back in its hole before passing out from exhaustion.

### *The Girl in the Woods* (2020)

After Carrie seals The Brute back in its door, she passes out due to exhaustion and blood loss. Arthur Dean, the only other survivor of The Brute's massacre, runs up to her and hurriedly puts the chains back on the door. Carrie then wakes up in what appears to be a trailer home, with her arm bandaged up. Upon leaving, she finds that she's in a repurposed train car. She takes a walk out into the woods, where she finds a decrepit old house with old radios on the front porch. As Carrie goes up to the porch, a Scarlet Siren attacks her with a hook, and chases her back into the woods. Carrie runs through the woods until she comes across The Door once again, and she is once again found by Arthur, who explains what has happened and the function of The Door. Arthur and Carrie then go to bury what bodies they can find in the woods before heading back to the train cars. That night, Carrie can't sleep and tries to open the briefcase she found under Arthur's mattress. Arthur reprimands her for doing so, and makes her promise to never let anyone near The Door and never open the briefcase. Carrie promises, and Arthur helps her go to sleep.

Some time later, Arthur is training Carrie to fight monsters. He notes that she is improving on her hatchet throws and gifts her a fully-functional cybernetic arm as a reward, complete with a retractable blade made from some strange rocks that Arthur found while they were burying bodies in the woods. That night, Carrie goes to the house where she was attacked by the Scarlet Siren to try and kill it. However, she is attacked by a second Siren and manages to get away after stabbing one of them in the stomach. Carrie returns to an agitated Arthur, and breaks down to him, revealing to him that she had pressured her friends to open The Door and it was her fault that everyone died. She laments that if she had the arm when The Brute attacked, nobody would have died. When Carrie goes to sleep that night, she wakes up to find that Arthur is no longer there. She goes outside to look for him and finds him fighting one of the Scarlet Sirens. As he is overpowered and killed by the Siren, Arthur yells at Carrie to protect The Door.

Seven years later, Carrie has grown into an adult. She trains ceaselessly to perfect her skills, and she has captured one of the Sirens and is keeping it captive near the train cars. That night, Carrie resolves to kill The Brute in the morning and thinks about Arthur as she goes to sleep. When she wakes up the next morning, she notices that the Siren she had captured has escaped. Carrie eventually arrives at The Door, and says the incantation to release The Brute. However, she is attacked by the Siren she had tied up, and it hacks her shoulder with her hatchet. Carrie manages to knock it out, but her relief is short-lived as she realizes that The Brute is right behind her. It charges at her before she has a chance to attack, but is frightened away once it sees the blade in her arm. Carrie passes out, and wakes up later that night to find that The Brute has escaped.

Carrie returns to the train cars and has an emotional breakdown, as not only did she disobey the one thing Arthur made her promise to not do, she failed to kill The Brute. She catches sight of Arthur's briefcase and, deciding she has nothing left to lose, opens it. Inside, she finds a uniform, missing posters, and two maps. Deciding to decipher whatever was in Arthur's briefcase, she douses the Siren in gasoline and burns it alive before setting out on her own.

### *Water's Edge* (2019)

An adult Carrie makes an appearance at the ending of Water's Edge. Now a hardened adult, she has been living the life of a nomadic monster hunter, and from the years between The Girl in the Woods and Water's Edge, she has encountered and presumably fought monsters such as Cheshire Broach and Soot. She sets out a pile of fresh meat, and waits for the Woe Bones to come to her. She shows no fear when the creature gets close to her face, and tells it rather nonchalantly that the meat is for it. As the monster eats, Carrie takes her axe and hacks the monster to death.

## Powers and Abilities

At thirteen, Carrie was a normal human being with no special powers or skills. However, as a child of the High Order, she was privy to knowledge about The Door that other members of the colony were not.

At age twenty, Carrie has trained rigorously for seven years. She is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, is proficient with fighting with a hatchet, and has enough survival skills to be able to fend for herself in the woods all on her own.

### Skillset

* **Marksmanship:** Carrie is able to throw an axe with astounding accuracy.

### Equipment

* **Cybernetic Arm:** Carrie now possesses a cybernetic arm that was manufactured and given to her by Arthur Dean. The arm functions as if it were a normal arm of flesh and blood, and in addition it possesses a retractable blade that has been forged with a Torment Fragment.
* **Axe:** Carrie wields a throwing axe for protection against monsters.

## Relationships

### Arthur Dean

Arthur acted as a father figure to Carrie upon taking her in after The Brute's attack. He trained her to protect The Door in his stead, as it was The Colony's responsibility to do so. Carrie did care for him, as he was the only one left that took pity on her.

### Marcus

Marcus is Carrie's father. It is unknown what their relationship was like before the events of the short film, but Marcus was willing to sacrifice her to The Brute if it would get it back inside The Door.

### The Brute

Before The Door in the Woods, Carrie did not believe that The Brute truly existed, only that it was a story that The Colony used to frighten children into behaving. After she released it and managed to get it back in The Door, Carrie grew vengeful and despised The Brute for the damage it wrought. She became obsessed with killing the monster, training herself for years in preparation for the day she would open The Door again and kill it.

## Sightings

### Crypt Monster Universe

 2019
 2020

## Trivia

* Carrie's first actress, Carissa Bazler, previously starred in the second season of *The Look-See* as Leah Capshaw. In contrast to Leah, who was intrigued by and teamed up with the monster of her story, Carrie seeks to kill the monster of her story.
* Peyton List, who currently portrays Carrie, is best known for her role as Emma Ross in the 2011 Disney Channel sitcom *Jessie,* and its spin-off series, *Bunk'd*. List would later star as the protagonist of *Be Mine: A Valentine's VR Slasher.*
* It is very possible that Carrie is suffering from untreated PTSD.

## References

1. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie. “'Girl In the Woods': Stefanie Scott, Misha Osherovich & Sofia Bryant To Star, Will Yun Lee Among 4 Recurring In Peacock Series From Crypt TV.” Deadline; May 10th, 2021; https://deadline.com/2021/05/girl-in-the-woods-stefanie-scott-misha-osherovich-sofia-bryant-star-will-yun-lee-peacock-series-crypt-tv-1234752446/.
2. ↑  *The Door in the Woods* (dir. Joey Greene; October 26th, 2018)
3. ↑ *The Girl in the Woods* (dir. Roxine Helberg; April 17th, 2020)
4. ↑  *Water's Edge* (dir. Lena Tsodykovskaya; July 19th, 2019)