I finally own Carrie!

Great '70s film--the band that plays at the prom is perfect, and William Katt is like a blueprint for The Virgin Suicides' Trip Fontaine. (Speaking of which, VS's prom--at least in the film--is almost certainly a nod to Carrie's.)

By the way: Kael loved The Fury.

And she was wrong.

Zzzzzzzzzzzz.

I like The Fury, especially Carrie Snodgress's death and the scene with the toy train, but wouldn't put it in De Palma's first tier. Has there been a De Palma poll? For me it goes, 1. Casualties of War, 2. Blow Out, 3. Carrie. Which would probably match Kael's list exactly...oh no, I'm a Paulette!

i wonder if i would like blow out

how much do you like John Travolta

god i don't know. but i do like nancy allen

Blow Out is a neat movie imo.

Blow Out rules. Probably my favorite De Palma.

Hoberman's got some good stuff on Blow Out in The Dream Life. He sees it as the end of a 20-year progression that began with various films dating back to the Kennedy administration.

There is a De Palma poll...zero for Casualties of War! Ouch. Much better news: only two votes for the monumentally silly Scarface.

how scary is this movie? i've never seen it, and watching horror movies is a major commitment for me, because i am a pussy.

eh not very. Piper Laurie is scariest thing in it

Carrie is much more sad and tragic than scary.

yea but the sadness is scary in a disturbed, cold way

Hmm.

Though the original actually seems like a workable or at least bankable idea ahead of its time -- post-Twilight/High School Musical/Glee (hell, that one Buffy episode as well), why not something that puts all the pieces together now?

Then again, given the song in specific that link refers to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D49pGKyt4I

well, replacing half the songs is no fair

Caught the Frasier episode a couple nights ago where Christine Baranski plays the Dr. Laura parody "Dr. Nora" and Piper Laurie shows up at the end as her crazed mother in a seeming Carrie spoof.

now on c4. great xmas day film imo.

this movie is so damn amazing

the opening (?) scene where de palma floats through the steamy showers is one of the most beautiful things ever

― 2 guys 1 jag (J0rdan S.), Thursday, April 1, 2010 7:12 PM (8 months ago)

its really fun to imagine brian dePalma silently levitating through a mass of showering cheerleaders w/ his camera trying not to be noticed

revamped version of the flop stage musical opens in NY next winter.

I have still never seen this, at all.

anyone else think they could.. move shit with their mind if they tried really hard, after seeing this film?
possibly just me.

damn, thought this thread weould be abt. the 1988 hit single by Europe..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Europe_Carrie_single.jpg

it's nancy allen's birthday

happy birthday nancy allen

I finally own a camel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovSKIRf1tQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dz2gdXP6Zs

I'm going to see it, but my expectations are low.

One sometimes-ILXor friend of mine complains that the new Carrie is too fucking ~cuet~ and I agree. That's my biggest hang-up, but also it doesn't look like Julianne Moore is going to hold a candle to Piper Laurie's displays of batshit fervor.

tbf to Julianne Moore I don't know if anybody could hold a candle to Piper Laurie. Her performance was perfectly OTT and has become so iconic that anybody cast in that role is at a significant disadvantage already.

Also Sissy Spacek was cute as hell. She just had freckles.

Not to defend this remake, which should never have been made.

This one looks more like The Rage: Carrie 2, which is, obviously, not good. The Angela Bettis version from 2002 (with Patricia Clarkson as Mrs. White) was pretty solid and took what is probably the best tact: avoid high style because you'll never be DePalma and instead focus on a gritty, handheld realism. I'm kind of surprised I haven't seen more recent reassessment of the 2002 version, given the interest of the new remake.

Surprised King doesn't complain about DePalma as much as he does Kubrick. King's Carrie White was a chubby, pimply loser. I know that movie's never going to get made in Hollywood, but still.

Blatant scale-tipping: 1976's Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominees

movie polls can always use more meaninglessness

Oh, and even in revamped form, Carrie: The Musical kinda sucks.

the whole 'wink wink, we're in on this too' musical trope is very played at this point.

The new Carrie seems to have latched on to all the wrong things about Carrie and ignored the things that matter the most.

is this essentially just remaking the film, or are they going back to the source novel and just acting as another interpretation of that?

just wondering since the poster said something like "you will know her name" and I remember the end of the book, that was literally true, that everybody knew it was Carrie White due to ESP imprinting (even people that didn't meet or know her), but perhaps I'm being overtly optimistic.

have you seen the trailer? i think that will answer some of your questions.

only a short one. the trailer seemed to indicate they're just revisiting the first movie, but I haven't seen an expanded or more recent trailer.

it's probably going to suck - the lack of advance reviews isn't a good sign.

They're screening it incredibly late in the game. So, yeah, it's probably a disaster, tho I am intrigued that a female director's doing it this time around.

I do like Chloe Moretz though

It would have been interesting to see someone take the journalistic approach of the original novel. God, this is gonna suck.

Also Sissy Spacek was cute as hell. She just had freckles.

Oh sure. I was re-using the word "cute," but what I meant was that Sissy Spacek doesn't look like conventional hottie, and they were able to make her look mousy.

W/ Moretz, they're doing the Hollywood fake-ugly thing e.g., glasses = frumpy nerd, or in this case, shirts buttoned all the way to the neck and overalls + a crucifix. But even those touches only go so far, and the way she plays the role doesn't look like it will be timid and apologetic enough.

Give her a Virginia Woolf nose, maybe.

yeah, there's no way a girl that looks like Chloe gets clowned on that level.

That's why Angela Bettis was good casting. She's just odd enough looking/acting to really believe she'd be ostracized. You wouldn't even need to give her the standard-issue goony glasses.

r u ok

it still makes me feel like i've ~lived through something~. i felt such a weird kinship to carrie in the book & spacek just nails that acute betrayal so well, it leaves me reeling & full of tears every time

definitely ok and yes i feel you re: living through something. funnily enough i was just wondering again about the 'live through this' cover connection. it really does look like Chris on the cover.

it does! i always thought of it as a nod

i don't know how sissy could go to that emotional place so well without doing real damage mentally but god love her for putting that on screen

def a nod. apparently Leilani Bishop is actually the girl on the cover and is in a movie with Joan Rivers from 2000 called Intern http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202989/ (not a lead)

also yes Spacek does that for a few roles, it is baffling.

Halloween, 20 years ago
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!!

awesome

saw this tonight at a local “micro”cinema ie v small rep theater w 25 seats

still so fucking good

the split screen stuff in the prom is so effective, i really like how they used that

ragsdale is so good in the scenes w carrie, all his interactions feel really natural & genuine

nancy allen is such a hottie

also shoutout Edie McClurg as one of the mean girls! aka Ed Rooney’s secretary in Ferris Bueller “he’s a righteous dude”

THEYRE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU

You've got me stumped on ragsdale...Tommy Ross/William Katt?

fuuucking hell talk about a brainfart jezus

KATT

WILLIAM KATT

thx clemenza

i can't with this film, i couldn't then and i can't now

it's too terrifying

but then why do i watch it every other year with rote and rupturus horror

Didn't realize there was a William Ragsdale, or I would have figured that out without asking--I remember that show, Herman's Head. I did discover there are a number of Carrie Ragsdales out there in the world when I searched that.

William Ragsdale ably played the protagonist the original Fright Night movies.

Also, the original novel turned 50 in the last couple weeks (!!)

crazy

i wouldn’t mind rereading the novel again, i havent done that in a while