I finally own Carrie!

Who's today's Shelley Duvall?

Kristen Schaal

so sissy spacek in this movie may be my favourite performance of all time i've decided

Yes!

so fragile... tender... hopeful... horrified... horrifying... it's just magical

those moments at the prom where she's just starting to sort of relax and allow herself to get excited are just devastating

Pretty much every single actress I've ever seen tackle the role fail miserably once the prom scene is over. Only Spacek has managed the impossible task of re-earning audience sympathy.

(fails)

Did nobody else find that Chaw review unreadable? The sentences are tortured, the concepts muddled... basically a whole lot of head-shaking until I got to this and just gave up: "thank God she's 24 because I'd be going to jail". Yeah, I'm done.

i havent seen any of the others, i cant really imagine it even being possible to make a movie that audacious today

"thank God she's 24 because I'd be going to jail".

whoa he had sex with her

spacek so great.

I love Chaw, and his review was strong enough to almost make me wanna see a movie I don't care one bit about, but yeah, he needs to knock that shit off.

This is indeed the version of Carrie for those (like Peirce) who found De Palma's take "campy." Problem is, the lack of pop smirk makes it a lot duller, too. While I've always found the playfulness of De Palma's film problematic, watching this dour version highlights just how much his tricks give the emotional ugliness of the material its punch. I found the movie watchable, but never uncomfortable, and it wasn't until just now that I realized how integral discomfort was to Carrie's effect.

Moretz is a strange case--she seems way more comfortable in the sweet (pre-massacre) prom scenes than in any of the darker stuff, which I guess makes her ill suited for Carrie. Moore didn't register with me at all--Neanderthal's comment upthread about her doing "actress karaoke" pretty much nails it. In fairness, both actresses are in the unenviable positions of having to follow, and evoke, what are by now a couple of pretty iconic performances. The boys fared better for me, but then again a) they're cuter than William Katt and John Travolta, and b) Katt and his stupid hair always seemed to me to be about as far away from "dreamy," by any standards, as one could get.

The film also forces something of a happy ending re: the Sue character. Can't recall if this detail was in the novel or not, though.

I haven't seen this but why they never tapped Clea DuVall to play Carrie when she was younger still mystifies me - she is much more of a Carrie type, and she has great range

kinda too old to play high school now tho :(

#missedopportunities

I still say the only acceptable new version of Carrie would be a Treehouse of Horror spoof with Lisa as Carrie.

Saw it at the Lightbox last night. One of the mid-sized theatres, only half full. My friend had seen Robocop there a few nights ago, and that was sold out. I don't get it.

My single favourite moment: when William Katt, sitting between Betty Buckley and Amy Irving ("We don't care what we look like, do we?") shrugs his shoulders helplessly and giggles. Favourite shot: the high overhead entrance of Carrie and Tommy at the prom, everyone dancing and that excellent, cheesy glam/metal/pop band playing their "Smokin' in the Boys Room" rewrite. Seeing it in a theatre for the first time in a while, some of the chaotic climax seemed a little less convincing--death by malevolent hose for at least a couple of people. (But Betty Buckley's spectacular as always.) Also took more notice of the how sappy the slow-dance prom song is--it's the one piece of music in the film that's weak.

I read the novel for a university essay way back when. My recollection is that it was a fairly ordinary stepping-off point. I'm still amazed at how much invention, humour, and feeling De Palma brought to it. (Spacek gets most of the credit for the feeling.)

it's incredible. i'm watching it for the 100th time now and i'm still scared bc it's perfect and devastating.

if someone is awake and can offer support pls let me know thx

ok i made it thru.

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