http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsI/8532-2980.gif
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
vs
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_In5M5mqIDqU/R8QtNduxp2I/AAAAAAAACVE/GOV5Z97OzAA/s320/Nancy+Allen+-+Carrie+95.jpg
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Not even a contest, Nancy Allen all the way. Had such a crush on her when I was like 10.
Dark horse candidate:
http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsS/16222.gif
― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
dirty pillows is one of my favorite euphemisms ever
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ZU3ONTp0Bh2WEM:http://www.morethings.com/fan/carrie-sissy_spacek/martyr_mom/piper_laurie-carrie_white-murder-suicide118.jpg
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/guides/parents/carrie_large.jpg
De Palma never got any better than this imho. only misstep in the film is maybe the house sinking into the ground in the end, which is kinda too ridiculous.
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh nancy allen is hot
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
How is The Fury? I has a strong inclination to see it b/c psychic powers are awesome.
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
De Palma never got any better than this imho
Blow Out is better imho
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Blowout put me to sleep
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
altho amy irving's hair was kind of amazing tbh
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
This is one of my favorite movies EVER! Jesse bought me the deluxe DVD set for some gift giving holiday five or six years ago. No holographic cover, but on the bonus disc we do learn that in the scene where Norma gets it with the fire hose, the water pressure actually burst P.J. Soles's ear drum.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Also:
THEY'RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
was gonna post^^^
― plax (ico), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
It's taking a lot of restraint for me not to just warble "They're all gonna laugh at you!" out loud here at my desk. It's only the fact that I'd have to explain what the hell I was doing to my coworkers that is keeping me quiet.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I can probably slip "Eve was WEAK!" into causal conversation at some point without raising too many eyebrows, though.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
A psychotelekenetic bloodbath at the morale boosting potluck lunch might be harder to skate away from though...
― Convenience Fish (snoball), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, April 1, 2010 4:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― plax (ico),
me too!
― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - If I could set things on fire with my mind, my workplace would have been ashes two years ago.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
It's one for the De Palma nuts like me, who thinks it's among his best. Everyone else receives it with indifference or worse.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsM/11491-2980.gif
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I tell this to everyone who will listen: When I was about 10 years old I read Carrie, the one with the pics from the movie. I was immediately OBSESSED and I wanted to be her. I played Carrie by filling an empty gallon Kemps ice cream bucket and dumping it over my head on the porch, then doing this over and over and over:
http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/carrie-blood.jpg
― it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I like The Fury! Haven't seen it in quite a while, but I remember being entertained by it repeatedly when it used to be on HBO all the time.
― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 1 April 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
it really is
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Friday, 2 April 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
it's also funny to consider this as a sort of revenge fantasy for anybody who went through high school gym.
i used to just cut and drink in the bathroom
oops
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Friday, 2 April 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
that prom scene is something else. the plain sadness in her fury is chilling.
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Monday, 5 April 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
By the way: Kael loved The Fury.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
And she was wrong.
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 5 April 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 5 April 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if i would like blow out
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Monday, 5 April 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
how much do you like John Travolta
― kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 April 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
god i don't know. but i do like nancy allen
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Monday, 5 April 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Blow Out is a neat movie imo.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 5 April 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Blow Out rules. Probably my favorite De Palma.
― circa1916, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
There is a De Palma poll...zero for Casualties of War! Ouch. Much better news: only two votes for the monumentally silly Scarface.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― symsymsym, Monday, 5 April 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
eh not very. Piper Laurie is scariest thing in it
― kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 April 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Carrie is much more sad and tragic than scary.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 5 April 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yea but the sadness is scary in a disturbed, cold way
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Monday, 5 April 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Then again, given the song in specific that link refers to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D49pGKyt4I
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
well, replacing half the songs is no fair
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Taller than the president (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
now on c4. great xmas day film imo.
― caek, Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
― plax (ico), Sunday, 26 December 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
also Barry Shakaba Henley, gtfo at wasting your time playing an doofusy awkward principal.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 05:27 (ten years ago) link
Can't say I didn't warn you.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 18 October 2013 05:30 (ten years ago) link
lol this is true
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 05:44 (ten years ago) link
brody is a fan
― caek, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
ws Judy Greer
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
Seeing a disturbing if predictable trend of critics seizing the opportunity to talk about how De Palma's version was no good.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 18 October 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
whether it was or wasn't (I love it), that it was a better film is pretty much inarguable, sooooooo.....
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
has Armond reviewed this yet?
who cares?
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 October 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
cos it'd probably be more entertaining than the movie was....
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 October 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
In fairness, I used to agree, but I just can't be bothered to read his crap anymore.
― the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 October 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
Who's today's Shelley Duvall?
Kristen Schaal
― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Friday, 18 October 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
so sissy spacek in this movie may be my favourite performance of all time i've decided
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
Yes!
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
(fails)
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
i havent seen any of the others, i cant really imagine it even being possible to make a movie that audacious today
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
"thank God she's 24 because I'd be going to jail".
whoa he had sex with her
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 27 January 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 January 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link
I still say the only acceptable new version of Carrie would be a Treehouse of Horror spoof with Lisa as Carrie.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 27 January 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 March 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― surm, Monday, 27 July 2015 05:38 (nine years ago) link
ok i made it thru.
― surm, Monday, 27 July 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
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
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 July 2015 06:32 (nine years ago) link
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.
― surm, Monday, 27 July 2015 06:33 (nine years ago) link
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
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 July 2015 06:35 (nine years ago) link
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.
― surm, Monday, 27 July 2015 06:39 (nine years ago) link
Halloween, 20 years agohttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48829929726_4218712eae.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 4 October 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
!!awesome
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 October 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
saw this tonight at a local “micro”cinema ie v small rep theater w 25 seatsstill so fucking goodthe split screen stuff in the prom is so effective, i really like how they used thatragsdale 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”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 01:45 (five months ago) link
THEYRE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU
You've got me stumped on ragsdale...Tommy Ross/William Katt?
― clemenza, Monday, 22 April 2024 01:52 (five months ago) link
fuuucking hell talk about a brainfart jezusKATTWILLIAM KATT
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 02:23 (five months ago) link
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
― Swen, Monday, 22 April 2024 02:45 (five months ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 April 2024 04:27 (five months ago) link
William Ragsdale ably played the protagonist the original Fright Night movies.
― henry s, Monday, 22 April 2024 15:12 (five months ago) link
Also, the original novel turned 50 in the last couple weeks (!!)
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 22 April 2024 15:15 (five months ago) link
crazy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:27 (five months ago) link
i wouldn’t mind rereading the novel again, i havent done that in a while
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 April 2024 18:28 (five months ago) link