Very disappointing...

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This is a review I have been meaning to write. Few horror movies entertain me from open to finish, but this is one. I feel a connection with Carrie as I was too sheltered and had to go through a lot of teasing from it. I was not chased by my Mom with a knife or into a prayer closet but I could not see Harry Potter and God was very much in the center of my life. (And now, too, but not as strictly.) For Carrie, she does not know about periods until she has her first at school-to which she thinks she is dying. When she snaps and uses telekinesis to terrorize her bullies and mother, it has some pretty frightening and unexpected images. This a horror movie that does what it's supposed to-scare you! Many don't because I know what is about to happen. This does not and that is refreshing.

I'm sure it was scarier at the time of its release, but I just couldn't get into this film. It's dull and prolong just to build up to that one infamous scene. Some of my favourite films are King adaptations, but this one did nothing for me.

A timeless horror classic - it's very much a must watch for fans of the genre. This classic with Sissy Spacek is THE version to watch, I'm not into the remake at all.For those who have not seen this one yet and love horror - you'll just have to watch it because I won't give it all away. I will say that Carrie is a girl with a mother that is overly zealous in her religion and has raised Carrie in it - making Carrie weird to others and they make fun of her for that. Carrie also has Telekinesis - a mental power that she uses only when she feels forced to use for her own protection.A really fun watch. It's just to bad those who are picked on don't develop Carrie's powers for their own personal revenge in real life.8.5/10

Carrie is one of the most iconic horror film in history and De Palma directing and shooting makes you understand everything by the images and cinematography ,how the characters feel, why they feel like that. The result is you can understand their actions through the film and their motivations, though at times a bit shallow, you can get why they do it. Also Brian De Palma shows very well the working of the senior high school students, from the unnamed hierarchy, to the cruelty the teens are capable off it goes with out saying if you had a difficult years in school you will sympathize with Carrie and even rude for her. An other thing worth mentioning is that the cruelty in house and at school can twist the way a person sees things and in the final scene of the infamous school dance we see that in a very realistic and disturbing manner. As for the subject of puberty is demonstrated by the telekinetic powers Carrie gains after her first Luteal phase. And gradually she starts to disobey her religiously fanatical mother, accepting complements as a good thing and even dancing with her cavalier. However there is and a dark side to that : she can now pretty easily hurt anyone how hurts her physically or emotionally and it is dangerous as innocent people may and do get in the cross fires.In general puberty is depicted like a new power coming out from the person and there two bad outcomes from it :When it isn't put in check becomes cruelty (seen in the girls bullying Carrie).The other possibility is when it comes in the hands of a person who was continuously bullied then the tables are turned and the hunted becomes the hunter, basically the quote of Nietzsche "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." becomes a reality ,just showing that the goodness and kindness how can be lost and even the most cruel maybe they do it just to get respect like in high school of instance.OK I will close mist analyses here for I may over did it. However this is a great adaptation of Steven King and perhaps the most faithful book-to-film take from all the films and series that have been based from his work so far ,together with the Green Mile, Misery and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.