Carrie

Stupid movie with an ugly actress

In league with 'The Shining', 'Cujo', and so on. A 70s masterpiece in the horror genre. It is relentless in scary psychological undertones that play on the emotions, sympathy as much as terror and wonder. Sissy Spacek is dynomite. The filming is dynomite as well with touches of the 70s that you make you wonder how you survived this era. Truly creepy but a very interesting drama as well. Beauty and terror ride high in this feat by Brian DePalma - and the mind of Stephen King.

the image is so disgusting.

Quite simply, Carrie is one of the finest masterpieces to hit the motion picture screen. No other than Sissy Spacek could have played the downtrodden, bullied young girl with telekentic powers who is the brunt of everyone's jokes. To make matters worse, she lives with her crazed, religious mother who complicates life for her bullied daughter. Piper Laurie is superb in this role and should have received co-top billing, rather than John Travolta. He was actually the weak link in the whole story, yet he received co-billing. But that aside, Carrie gets her revenge and those who tormented her pay a terrible price! The prom scene is one of the most gripping I've ever seen. Acting, photography and Brian de Palmas expert directing make Carrie one great film!

Excellent price and delivery time. Movie was first rate, about a man who becomes obsessed in his love for a woman. Fine quality DVD.

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De Palma managed to get a Stephen King novel right, but it's the sensational acting of Sissy Spacek, and Piper Laurie that drive this film way beyond the merely 'good' range. This is a psych-horror film that had so many splatter-fests ripping it off ( with not even close to the impact )- including a thoroughly, pathetic sequel- it should have gotten franchise rights. THE RING wasn't as scary as CARRIE by half. Aesthetically speaking, the afore-mentioned film doesn't even come close to CARRIE ( only a handful of 'creepers' do ). If you love revenge-films, or just no-holds-barred horror this is the ultimate in payback flicks. A must for any horror fan.

This is a fun horror movie that lots of people have since copied. Several actors received their first real exposure (pun intended) in this movie and Piper Laurie restarted her career. This film does have some fine grain in certain scenes but this was never a high dollar production and I'm doubtful that it is going to get much better.

This was a pretty powerful melodrama, thanks to the great performance of Sir Laurence Olivier. Olivier plays an unhappily-married older man who falls for the young and beautiful Jennifer Jones (not hard to understand!).....and pays a huge price for his adultery. Olivier is near-mesmerizing in this film and Jones is absolutely gorgeous. Eddie Albert was a bit annoying (but effective) in his role and Miriam Hopkins is downright brutal in her small part as Olivier's wife. The shocking thing about this film was the subject matter, rare for its day. It was ahead of its day in one respect: it makes the adulterers into the sympathetic "good guys." I'm surprised that got by the censors of the day. Jones' character is oddly innocent for someone "shacking up" with Albert. This was highly involving, a tough story to put down once it started. Note: One of the scenes near the end of the story - the flophouse scene - was inserted on the DVD. It had previously been cut out of the theatrical ... Read more

classic "They're all gonna laugh at you!!!" Hahahahah. best line in the whole damn movie!

Pretty sweet. I dig the classics.

HIGH SCHOOL WASNT THAT BAD

I must have read Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" in college 25 years ago, and I teach American literature at the high school level, but I barely remembered the novel and so decided to re-read it this summer, in two different versions-- manuscript and published 1906 version,Sister Carrie (Norton Critical Editions). And I also decide to see the film, which I liked so much that I bought a copy. No, it isn't 100 per cent faithful to Dreiser's work, but it is a very good film. I was most impressed by Olivier's performance and by the set design. The latter truly puts one in early 20th Century Chicago (and I would know something about this, since I was raised by a great-grandmother who was born on Chicago in 1901, lived there through the early 1930s, and was constantly telling me about her experiences of it throughout my childhood and adolescence). I plan to show parts of this film to my Am Lit classes as a comparison/contrast to Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: and Other Tales of Ne... Read more

those people REALLY deserved it....

I really liked this movie a long time ago..but it is way to evil for me!

cool movie sorta creepy

woah

Horrible acting.. but it's alright. The second one is better though.

One of the first Steven King movies and it was pretty well done for the era. Better actors than are usually hired for the genre. Looks a bit dated now but might be due for a restoration. I've seen a lot of bad prints shown on television.

the book was good too

Not scary but still good

Definately creepy! This girl was pyscho...but those kids were such assholes.

Not the greatest, but those kids were indeed deserving of anything they got.

tooo olddd!

another book I'd already read - but Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie's acting was fabulous!

Scary! The book is good too.

I haven't seen this one...but there's Stephen King.

classic

the book is sooooooooooo much better!!!

Poor old Carrie.... I was more scared of what happened to her than what she did and what she could do.

Great flick...Sissy Spacek and Amy Irving were at their best at the time

One of the first and very well produced film in which the potential of manipulating object with the sheer power of the mind is explored in a "wonderfully terrorizing" manner. Are people ready to master such a power? What psychological pros and cons could such a power cause in the mind and personality of the person possessing it? How would the rest of the world react facing such a "monster"? The movie explores these and other related questions in a tense, touching and terrifying manner. Another classic of its genre.

Based on Theodore Dreiser's novel, Sister Carrie. Jennifer Jones plays Carrie Meeber, a young woman who moves to Chicago to better herself. Carrie learns the facts of life, that the big city is filled with selfish people. She goes through two lovers, a young Eddie Albert and an older man whom she ruins. Laurence Olivier plays Hurstwood, the man who risks all to recapture his youth. Carrie loves the attention, and Hurstwood has his moment. My favorite scene is where he gives her a new hat. The relationship runs its course. Carrie becomes an actress, and Hurstwood hits the skids. Dreiser's prose is clumsy.

This is a superbly written, directed, and acted movie, based on the superbly written novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. The story remains timely and compelling. It will make you cry.

This one really bothered me on so many levels,the church music at the end when she comes home all bloody and walks through the house with all the candles burning with her mom waiting on her..this one was scary to me!

This is a Brian de Palma product. It started off well but degenerated to the gore at the end. It had to knock it down a star. Even John Revolting isn't too bad.

it shows what happens when you pick on those that are different. the end made me jump.

sissy spacek was great in this. the movie was fab, all the way until the end, then it fizzled.

This in another classic that I had to give a fair rating, even if it is a little goofy by today's standards. After all, this one is still pretty creepy. I just saw it again about a year ago, and although it takes a while for anything scary to happen, it's plenty creepy when it finally does.

The book was a bit better. The movie played for laughs at a couple of points - big mistake. The movie could have been so much better, Spacek was perfect for Carrie and the mother could have worked great as well with the religious nutso angle.

Classic story of revenge!!!!!!! You know what they say revenge is a mother!!!

One of the very best in the mid'70's as this was not better than Halloween, but very close in those days. Scary and creepy as this girl in the first place was messed up by her mom. Despite that you have to wait 'til the end for gasps and screams, you will have to feel some sympathy for her despite that she is so crazy when she is provoked. It will teach some parents to be better after watching this.

bloody prom queens gone crazy on popular kids' asses....pretty good story if ya ask me

i was the carrie white of my high school i was a misfit hated by jocks and chearleaders and yuppies the movie very real and creepy

Good movie for it's time. I could never really be scared by it, but when your a kid, it is kinda weird. After I grew up, I could never keep my attention on the movie til the very end. The hand out of the grave was the best part.

the end scared me and made me jump. classic steven king. a john travolta was even in it though its never mentioned much about that.

lOVE sTEPHEN kING, HATE THIS BOOK AND MOVIE!

One of the greatest movies around... If You are a fan of horror there is no way you can denie this movie, King is the Master!!!

ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES, WITH SOME TRUELY CLASSIC SCENES. HORROR FANS WILL LOVE IT.

This is one those movies i only whant to see once. i didnt enjoy this movie because it was a very dark movie and it was weird.