Carrie (1976) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2022
- Hello and Welcome back to Cinema Rules! We have finally gotten round to watching the original Carrie after being highly requested by you all! This film surprised us both with themes and tones!
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It was Stephen King’s first book, which he threw in the trash. His wife saved it and convinced him to have it published. It was the story that literally helped them get out of poverty and opened up an entire universe of amazing storytelling! I love both the book and this movie! 😊
What’s the story that opened him up to a world of cocaine?? Lol
@@baronvg I don’t know if it started his cocaine use but I remember reading that he was on it while either writing IT or Maximum Overdrive
@@scantron20 def
@@baronvg he was working night and day to support his family. He started using it as a pick-me-up to get him through and became habit-forming. But to be fair - he did his best work before he got sober in my opinion.
I agree, the book is amazing. I do like De Palma's film, but it does still pale in comparison with the book.
I used to think this was a horror movie, but now I realized it’s a tragedy
Its horror if you are a bully xD
@@JoeKerr019 Or one of the random bystanders she decided to murder.
I mean, those aren't mutually exclusive. Most horror movies are also tragedies.
Uhhhh it’s also a horror
I was saying that Carrie may be a horror film, but it’s also a tragic film about a tragic character.
And that sentence is a reference to Joker
I rewatch this film all the time and it always makes me so sad. Not just for Carrie but for Tommy Ross. He was a real one that was just trying to do something nice and he genuinely liked Carrie. You could tell from the moment he told the teacher he sucked for ripping into Carrie.
Emotional horror is a good description. I find that I am drawn more to movies like that than blood and guts. Sissy acted so very well with her eyes, honestly.
When I was a kid her eyes used to scare the crap out of me and her slow walk when she leaves the prom. Carrie is such a great movie.
Carrie was made in 1976, a year before they filmed Grease. John Travolta was 22.
Sue was the only one who felt bad for Carrie. Her and Tommy had no idea about the prank. Tommy ended up liking her.
And the friends that they talk to when they're going into the prom. The girl who compliments Carrie's dress. I always felt bad about the few people who were actually nice to her ending up collateral damage to what stupid Chris & Billy & Norma & the other jerks did.
I've seen a lot of reactions to this movie and I never understand why quite a lot of reactors don't realise that Sue was genuinely trying to repent for what she did to Carrie I thought it was totally clear throughout the movie.
Same. I never could understand why people thought Sue and Tommy were in on it. It’s clear Sue wanted nothing to do with Chris after she ditched the prom.
Same! I'm always shocked they don't see Sue's kindness
This has one of my favorite scenes in cinema. Sue Snell discovering that rope at the prom, and the lead up to the bucket pull is masterfully executed.
Sissy Spacek was phenomenal as Carrie. No one can do that role like her . The first time I saw the prom blood bath scene it chilled me to the bone but at the same time I understood why Carrie finally broke
Totally!!!!
Innocence, fear, pain, love, hate and thirst for blood... all in one!
Interestingly, not long ago I listened to an audiobook version of the novel, read by Sissy Spacek. Phenomenol there too!
IMO Carrie didn't really "break" until Tommy was killed. That's when she completely lost it, and in the novel, she destroyed the entire town!
@@donniehagy5125 yes but also in the novel she stopped her mother's heart as well. A lot was filmed but cut from the Original version but shown in the 2002 version.
They must watch ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’. Sissy Spacek is absolutely remarkable as Loretta Lynn.
I fucking KNEW in that shot y’all were gonna say“ Why are American houses so big?” 🤣 Sending love from Texas!
Carrie's hand coming out of the ground was the first jump scare ending.
I'm so glad you reacted rto this. I loved your emotion. Heartbreaking stuff. Both Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie were nominated for Oscars. Brian De Palma is so underrated as a director. I highly recommend Dressed to kill with Michael Caine. Its De Palmas homage to Hitchcock and slasher movies. Also Pet Sematary by Stephen King 1989.
Dressed To Kill, BlowOut, Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Mission:Impossible... I don't understand why De Palma isn't more widely respected these days.
@@mrkelso Along with Sisters and Body Double. A lot of people were cold to The Black Dahlia, but I liked it. Sisters was his first major hit from my memory. With Margot Kidder.
@@mrkelso and a comedy called Wise Guys
Dressed to Kill is an underrated film. Very good.
Love it.
Another fun fact that I'm not sure has been mentioned is that the lady that played Sue Snell's (Amy Irving) mother was actually Amy's real mother. At the very end when Sue wakes up from her nightmare, the lady actually calls her Amy instead of Sue. We can't hear that because of the music but it was mentioned in a behind the scenes documentary. Great reaction guys!! 💜💜💜
She's now 99 years old (Priscilla Pointer)
In terms of other Stephen King adaptations, you guys *DEFINITELY* need to react to "Misery" (1990).
Absolutely. IMHO his best book and best movie, with the book being even better than the movie. Its ironic that the master of supernatural horror's best stuff has no supernatural elements at all, 'Misery' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
I came to the comments to say the same thing!
@@ravenmasters2467 it's not his best movie. way too simple.
In the book, the sequence between when the bucket drops and when Carrie gets home is about half the book. It describes everything she does to the people at the prom, and how the school burns downs with almost everyone trapped inside. On her way back home she encounters Chris and the John Travolta character and it is more drawn out than in the movie. She also ends up basically burning the entire town down on her route home. The book is very original in that it is half told from Carrie's perspective before the incident, and half told through interviews with survivors after it is over. I wonder how the decision was made not to follow that structure for the movie- would it be too hard or was it just a better choice to go with the format they chose. Also to leave out the carnage after the prom- just too expensive, or did they think it was unnecessary. Good reaction!
Just watched your full unedited reaction on Patreon. Guys, one correction: when Tommy says "You suck" during poetry class, he's addressing the teacher (for making fun of Carrie). You thought he was talking about Carrie, but that should have been your first clue that Tommy (and by extension, Sue) was genuine. So happy that you recognised the sublime combo of perfect writing (King), perfect acting (Spacek, Laurie) and superlative directing (De Palma). Also, I often prefer Shaun's comments, but for me Tom better understood the emotional nuance and "got" this film way more 🙂. But glad you both rated it so highly!
The dream ending scared the hell out of me as a kid. Amy Irving is so raw.. Sue's trauma is the tragic icing on the cake.
Yeah i agree. These guys said they didnt think it was needed but as you say, it was showing that the innocent girl, the one trying to help her, was traumatised for life. Just one more layer of tragedy.
This is one of those movies where I went from being terrified when I was younger to saying “Good for her” in getting her revenge as I got older and understood people more.
The mother, Piper Laurie, deserved an oscar
She was nominated, so was Sissy Spacek.
RIP Piper
This is one of my favorite horror films. It's so brilliant. And it makes me cry every time. A masterpiece.
I always tear up at this movie because of how powerful the acting and characters are. It’s so tragic and you feel for Carrie even tho she destroyed her town and killed all those people. She was doomed from the first moment we see her on screen.
I absolutely love how you guys said how the ending would go with a hand jump, yet you still jump when it happens🤣🤣🤣🤣that was Great!!!
I'm glad you liked the movie. A true classic. Piper Laurie and Sissy Spacek should have won the Oscars that year.
The book goes into detail on pretty much everyone's motivations, and most of them are sympathetic. As to Carrie's power, once she realizes what she has, she begins practicing with it every day. By the time of the prom, she's become quite powerful, and can move heavy objects with her mind. While she's waiting for Tommy to pick her up, she is not just nervous and hopeful, but also has a vein of suspicion about the whole affair, and thinks to herself that if they try something, they will reap the whirlwind. She is happy at the prom with Tommy, and her guard is completely down when she goes onstage, but when the blood hits and the horror nearly drives her mad, the power takes over and consumes her, and from then on she's not really Carrie anymore, but this walking ball of rage and pain and POWER. She destroys the entire town, not just her own house, before she dies, and it's only at the very end that she regains herself for a moment, and is just that sad young girl again before the end. Really, this is a heartbreakingly sad story, and even more so in the original novel (which doesn't have any of the flashes of humor you see in the film - that's all DePalma).
As to Margaret's religiosity, I used to see her as a pure villain. But as time goes on, I examine her more. I don't think she's evil in herself - I think she's mad. As in insane. She lives at the cusp of two warring beliefs: 1) God has given her a child and God's will is that mothers raise their children to be good Christians, and 2) that child was conceived in what she believes is heinous sin, and so is a punishment to her and unclean. This is an enormous amount of tension to live in, and I think it made her worse than she already was. (Apparently she'd been god-crazy since she was a teenager.) Mothers should love their daughters, but daughters are made through sin, and sin cannot be loved but must be obliterated. But God gave her that daughter, so she must cherish her, etc., etc., round and round until the daughter suddenly rebels and NOW she has permission to expiate the sin. I think her beliefs just broke her brain and made it impossible to ever be a good mother, even though she tried in her crazed way. Her actions are villainous, but I no longer believe she is.
Now, Chris, on the other hand...
i was 13 when i saw this and thought it was great, later when i was 16 and got into to reading and King became my favorite i read carrie and it was ok i think seeing the movie first kinda ruined the book experience for me. but i love all his other books.
Actually Margaret is evil but in a different way than Chris. Chris is atheist evil, clearly. Margaret is false Christian evil, and in the book it’s explained why she is the way she is. Margaret White was born Margaret Brigham. Her father got killed in a gun battle and devastated, she seeks out a church to deal with the loss of her Dad. Unfortunately, she began attending a false Christian cult - in this particular case a fundamentalist group and she quickly became a fanatic. When her mother remarried a man named Harold Allison, Margaret denounced them, believing that they were living in sin.
In 1960, she met her soon-to-be husband, Ralph White. Margaret later tells Carrie she had sex with Ralph before marriage and regretted having sex before marriage - so much so she wanted to kill herself afterwards - when she found out she was pregnant with Carrie’s older sibling, she intentionally fell down the stairs to induce a miscarriage aka abort/murder the child. After they married, Ralph vowed that their indiscretions would never recur, but one night Ralph tried to seduce Margaret before she threw him out of the house. He returned drunk and while at the Roadhouse, he forced sex with her which Margaret both hated and enjoyed. This resulted in the conception of Carrie. In February 1963, seven months before Carrie's birth, Ralph was killed while working on a construction site (though it is mentioned in the novel that Ralph stopped Margaret from killing the infant Carrie when she started exhibiting her powers early in her life, implying that he died later on).
Margaret then gave birth alone to Carrie while in her house without medical assistance, causing Margaret to lose some blood. Her relationship with her daughter was extremely abusive from the time Carrie was a baby. This deeply affected Carrie throughout the years, putting great strain on her by homeschooling her into becoming a part of her fundamentalist community. Whenever Margaret believed that Carrie had sinned at school, she would throw her in a specially decorated closet to pray for forgiveness (out of no fault of her own), usually leaving her there for several hours or even days as a punishment.
Margaret believes that anything or everything can be a sin and harbors extremely restrictive views on sexuality. She feels that only "loose women" develop breasts, or "dirty pillows" as she calls them; she feels that she herself developed breasts due to the way Carrie was conceived. When Carrie has her first menstrual cycle at the age of 16, Margaret refers to it as the 'Curse of Blood' and claims that it was brought on by some sort of sexual sin on Carrie's part. After berating Carrie, Margaret locks her in the "prayer closet" until it is time for bed.
When Carrie is asked to the prom by Tommy Ross, Margaret initially forbids it, but Carrie insists on this last opportunity to fit in and reinforces her demand with her telekinetic power. Once Carrie makes her own dress, Margaret insists that they burn it and pray for forgiveness, disapproving of the fact that it shows cleavage. Carrie then uses her powers to push her mother out of the room.
While waiting for Carrie to come home from the prom, Margaret decides to “kill the sin”. She goes so far as to hide a butcher knife beneath the folds of her dress. Once Carrie arrives home, having telekinetically destroyed the high school and everything else in the town after falling victim to a cruel prank, both are surprised to find out that they each intend to kill the other. Margaret stabs Carrie in her shoulder. Carrie kills her mother by telekinetically slowing down her heart to a stop; Margaret recites the Lord's Prayer as she dies. The irony is that she thinks she’s going to Heaven for her “good deeds” but in reality, she’s going to Hell and yet who is the one who shows some compassion for her in the end? It’s Carrie.
In the book, unlike the film, Mortally wounded, Carrie makes her way to the roadhouse where she was conceived. She sees Chris and Billy leaving, having been informed of the destruction by one of Billy's friends. After Billy attempts to run Carrie over, she telekinetically takes control of his car and sends it racing into the tavern wall, killing both Billy and Chris. Sue finds Carrie collapsed in the parking lot, bleeding out from the knife wound. The two have a brief telepathic conversation (revealing that Sue has telepathy), in which Carrie realizes that Sue was not involved in the prank and forgives her for her past cruelty. Carrie then dies, crying out for her mother.
No one but Norma was laughing. When the bucket hit Tommy on the head, the two guys probably thought that was funny and laughed at that, but not at Carrie. Her psycho mom is responsible for planting that seed.
This is the second reaction video I’ve seen to this film where the reactors couldn’t figure out that Sue and Tommy were genuinely trying to be nice to Carrie. Very odd since it was never a question. They did a pretty good job of showing that Sue was remorseful and had dissented from Chris.
The irony is that Carrie is by far the most beautiful girl at that school. Imagine what she could have achieved as a person if she didn’t have a crazy mum.
I've always thought that Amy Irving had a special ethereal beauty (Sue Snell, Tommy's girlfriend. She was forced to retire after she divorced Steven Spielberg because everyone was afraid of offending him.
This was quite a thriller when I first saw this. Loved the final jump scare when you both 'joked' about Carrie reaching out of the grave. 🤣
The pose her mother died in was similar to the St. Sebastian's statue in the prayer closet.
This is a very tragic and sad story. Prom or no prom Mrs. White would have tried to kill Carrie anyway because she thought of her daughter as her "sinful" mistake. And Carrie didn't have a refuge from being bullied at home by her mother and at school by her classmates. She just wanted to live a normal life life everyone else.
Yeah, I think Carrie was hallucinating and hearing her mother's voice saying "They're all going to laugh at you."
The only people who deserved to live were Tommy, Ms. Collins and anyone else who didn't laugh at Carrie.
The reason why Carrie made her house collapse was because she knew that the police wouldn't believe her alibi that she used her telekinesis to defend herself from her mother who tried to kill her and she couldn't move to another town because news of her would travel and she would be treated as a pariah. Great reaction, analysis and ratings.
i love this movie, that shot of carrie walking down from the stage with the fire around her covered in blood...iconic horror
and the way she walks down the steps with her hands out, all poised and ladylike
Misery is an amazing Stephen King movie to react to, one of his greatest movies in my opinion.
IMHO his best book and best movie, with the book being even better than the movie. Its ironic that the master of supernatural horror's best stuff has no supernatural elements at all, 'Misery' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
@@ravenmasters2467 Stand By Me also.
I waited 2 years for this and is finally here lol. I love the reaction. Probably my favorite Stephen King adaptation film. But every time watches it I feel so sad because Carrie is a sweetheart who gets constantly bullied and such a sad ending for her. But I still love it in the end. Great reaction guys.
Sue went so that she could sew the joy on Carrie's face. It was her having her hand on the backdrop and feeling the rope move that made her look.
Another amazing Stephen King adaptation is 'Dolores Claiborne' with Kathy Bates. It's a multi layered awesome story. Kathy Bates says it's her favorite role she played. Worth checking out. Great reaction to 'Carrie' guys 🙂
Great film and best version of Stephen King's book.
Sissy Spacek was nominated for Best Actress and Piper Laurie was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the 1976 Academy Awards.
That was not a Jesus statue, but a statue of St. Sebastian, who was a martyr.
P.J. Soles, who played the girl in the red baseball cap also played the friend of Laurie in "Halloween" who always said, Totally!"
Glad you both liked the film, I was looking forward to your reactions.
You guys, your expressions. The part when the teacher got killed. When Carrie got stabbed by her mother. Watching you, I don't think I've ever laughed so hard. Thanks , That's Entertainment!
Remember, the jump scare of the hand coming out from the grave preceded movies like "Nightmare on Elm Street". I remember this part so vividly in the theater when a first viewed the film as a kid. The entire audience screamed, lol, such an iconic moment.
My absolute favorite part of the movie is when Tommy and Carrie dance together. It's so beautiful and heartwarming, but so dreadful because you know what is gonna happen. Such a good movie.
Pet Semetary is a tragedy with forced blood & gore to satisfy horror tropes of King fans in the 1980's, but the book is incredibly devastating and extremely scary. I never thought I would have that kind of reaction to the novel after seeing the movie a dozen times or more before ever reading it. King's scariest novel imho
My favorite book! Second is *Watership Down* and third is *Watchers* (Dean Koontz.) Did you know...? Stephen King didn't have time to read all of the other books out there so he had his kids read the books on to tape and he listened to them in his car. He liked Watchers, even tho the kid that read it, didn't. He writes his own books now. One just made into a movie *The Black Phone.*
I absolutely love Carrie; it builds you up and compells you to a high level of suspens right from the get-go, and keeps you there all the way to the wonderful nightmare sequence at the end - it is the relentless and constant barragment of high tone music right to the credit's, from when Sue wakes up after getiing her arm grabbed by Carrie that freezes me on the spot and gets me everytime - I think it is a perfect way to end the movie. Great reaction guys 👍 your scores are spot on. I would also rate this at 8.5
I love how you can see the heart break from a mile away at the prom, but it doesn’t make it any more tragic
I think it makes it more so...there's a sense of inevitability to what happens to Carrie that it just makes a maddening amount of tension waiting for it to happen.
The reaction vid we've all been waiting for!
I remember after reports of people having heart attacks at the ending many cinemas had the St John Ambulance attending the screenings as a precaution. Don't underestimate the power that ending had at the time.
As someone who works in the entertainment industry, I REALLY enjoy your discussions on film making. It's awesome to listen to young people speak about films from a different era. Keep up the great work!
One note: back in grade school, I had to read a book and chose "Carrie" because Stephen King was the new author everyone wanted to read (yep, an 11-year old read the book). I forgot some of the details, and the movie played on CBS TV. So, I watched the movie (which I loved) and wrote the report based off the film. I marveled at the same things you did: the direction, acting, editing. When you have all that, you don't need a huge budget to tell a great story.
I've always considered this movie a tragedy, it's just so sad. But with the horror always near, until it reaches a boiling point. Such a brilliant film and book. One quick note, the girl in the red baseball cap is PJ Soles, she also appears in the original Halloween. When PJ showed up to audition for the movie, she was wearing the red baseball cap, the filmmakers liked the look so they added it to her characters appearance.
This story's so brilliant. The longer you spend with Carrie, the more you start to wish her journey could've ended differently. Even if you already know what's gonna happen to her - you still hold out that little bit of hope that maybe this time, it won't. Maybe this time, she gets to have her Cinderella moment.
But that never happens. It always ends the same way, and it always breaks your heart.
One of the rare, if only, horror movie to actually make me cry. No matter how many times I see it, Sissy Spacek just gvies such a heart wrenching performnace.
she’s one of the greatest actresses of all time. Criminally ignored IMO. Her performance in The Straight Story is stupendous.
You guys were one of the first reactors I started watching, well over a year ago. Has it been two? And it's just so great to keep watching these movies with you, and you always did great analysis and commentary, but as time goes on you guys just get better and better. One of you is married now, life has changed, but I'm happy you guys have kept the band together!!!!! LOVED this reaction, especially the post-film remarks!
Both Sissy Spacek as Carrie and Piper Laurie as her mother gave phenomenal performances.
This movie is heart-wrenching, it's almost painful to watch knowing what's going to happen. Carrie is such a lovable and sympathetic character who deserves so, so much more in life... It's an absolute tragedy when it's all taken away in an instant and she reverts back to believing the world wantings nothing more but to hurt her - except now she knows she can hurt it back and does so, which is doubly tragic as people had actually started to come around. 💔💔💔
What's great about the Bucket scene is that Carrie's reaction is natural. The actress apparently wasn't aware of what was in the bucket or thought it was just going to be confetti.
About time boys!!!! This is the only version worth watching. Sissy Spacek is phenomenal. The hand grab ending was the first of its time and Friday the 13th et al simply fell in line. For Stephen King adaptations you should watch 'Cujo' - fantastic and criminally under-rated.. Also, can you please look at 'Psycho II' soon? A fantastic sequel to the Hitchcock classic.
My favourite bit of trivia for Carrie is that it was a joint casting session, with Brian DePalma teaming up with a friend to look for hot new Hollywood talents for both their films, ending up with DePalma's friend George going away with Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill for his little Sci-fi flick
William Katt's audition for Luke is actually quite good...I could easily see him getting the part if Mark hadn't.
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Speaking of "audition," the Japanese movie *Audition* would be a great reaction! It's on Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments of all time.
One of my favorite horror movies. Piper Laurie and Sissy Spacek give such great performances and the last 30 minutes are brutal but so well done. This movie is basically a litmus test. If you don’t like this movie I kind of don’t respect your taste. So glad you guys like it! Hope Misery is up soon!
Agree with Tom's score on this one :) I'd recommend you watch Salem's Lot (1979), directed by Tobe Hooper, a few years on from Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
I’d highly recommend the Loretta Lynn biopic “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” starring Sissy Spacek. Totally different genre, of course, but Spacek is brilliant and won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance. She’s such an amazing actress.
My heart broke for Carrie at the prom. She was so happy and excited. The first time she ever got to enjoy anything in life. And they ruined even that for her. It's a great horror story but also very sad.
The version (the original) of "Carrie" was so heartfelt, especially the prom scenes: her first real kiss, her first dance, her first time anybody told she was beautiful--and that kiss. One of the most heartwarming moments in cinema history. FYI: Tommy and Sue were NOT in on the prank at the prom. In fact, Carrie didn't really "lose it" until she realized Tommy had been killed. When that happened, she completely lost it. In the novel, she destroyed most of the town! She kept exploding all the fire hydrants because "she didn't want anyone to put out her pretty fire."
Sissy Spacek is such so perfect as Carrie White in this movie.
Excellent reaction! Carrie was the first Stephen King adaptation. So well constructed like you've stated. The 7 primary actors were all very good, and all went on to have notable careers. Sissy Spacek's performance makes it really hard for any remark to be as good. (like think of someone else playing Max from Stranger Things other than Sadie Sink, not gonna happen). Other notable Stephen King adaptations to watch - well, really watch all of them, ha - but the short list is: Misery, Pet Semetery ('89), Salem's Lot and Cujo. For a film of his that's more of a tragedy, you may like Dolores Claibourne.
Fun to hear you criticize (sort of) the jump scare at the end with Carrie's arm rising from the grave. Describing it as a "'Nightmare on Elm Street' sort of thing" made me laugh. Maybe it's already been mentioned by someone else in the 735 comments from over the past year, but Brian De Palma deserves credit for basically inventing the "one last jump scare" trope with this iconic moment from "Carrie." Audiences in 1976 went bananas in the theaters because no one had been conditioned to expect "one last scare." Everyone knew the movie was over. The denouement was soft-focus and sweet with sappy music, and De Palma was setting everyone up for the fright of their lives. Absolutely brilliant. No one thinks a thing about it 50 years later since everyone does it now, but De Palma was a pioneer. You two should watch all of De Palma's films. He's fantastic. One of the all-time greats. Even films that wouldn't be considered his best still have memorable moments as he knows how to direct like few do. My personal favorite is "Body Double" as he takes some of the best elements from a couple of Hitchcock's gems and skillfully blends them together into his own original tale of intrigue and horror. I would love to see you two react to that one. "Femme Fatale" is another one that would blow your mind. Good material for your channel, for sure.
Nice job lads - one of my favourite movies ever to be honest - definitely in my top 10. The tragedy of it is almost too much to bear, but it's so incredibly directed, and beautifully acted that it becomes almost irresistible. It's great that you picked up on why this is so great, and didn't fall into the same trap as other reactors.
As for the remakes - well the one with Chloe Moretz wasn't awful, but it's not THIS. I think that later versions were not as well directed or paced as this one. Chloe gave it her all, but really, there can not be an on screen version that beats Sissy Spacek's performance here. There's a reason why both Sissy and Piper Laurie (her mother) were both nominated for Oscars for this. Says it all really. :)
My absolute favourite horror film! It's so deeply human, Sissy Spacek and Brian de Palma especially are so good at their craft here it's mesmerising (as are the writers and the composer)!
Stephen King wasn't actually a writer on this film, I've read the book and it's actually very different - in the book he writes Carrie herself in a way where she's also scary, you're meant to fear her and sympathise at the same time, whereas in the movie you fear FOR her and I think that was a much better approach (and yes, he does love this adaptation)
The remake is super forgettable, I agree - in the scene where Carrie's mum locks her in the closet in this version Carrie is shot from super high and the mum is shot from super low to really emphasise the power dynamic, not to mention Carrie is literally on the floor. In the remake, they're just sat next to each other in a mid close up and the acting is so much duller >.< Not to mention, Chloe was directed to act angry and her eyes/hand gestures are laser focussed and comically cartoonish almost. whereas Sissy's vacant, zombie-like stare is not only scarier (the telekinesis is far more terrifying as an unknown entity that can almost control you, rather than a tool which you can control at will) but also plays into her being more sympathetic as she should be (watch her face all throughout the scene where she gets back home to the candles, and you can literally see her come back to reality and realise what happened, almost as if she was gone for a while) - much better from a character perspective and so, so much creepier and subtler than the remake's take
Thank you for this reaction!
You guys continue to entertain with these excellent reactions, you analyse & sum up movies magnificently.
This is a great movie, remember watching it for the first time, Carrie is not the evil on in the story. All she wanted was love from her mother and acceptance from the students. Sissy Spacek really did a good job, Carrie was so innocence... I said this is a good story on how you should treat people...
A brilliant adaptation the novel and just plain heart-breaking as you guys say.
Every time I watch this I want Carrie to have a successful prom; she is so happy and Tommy seems to have genuinely fallen for her. She's kissed(probably for the first time) and the camera swirls around and it's the highlight of her life. And yes, as usual, the remake is unnecessary and inferior. Good reaction guys.
This was one of those rare thrillers that got Oscar nods for acting. And also, the final scare was huge selling point as many movies have tried to match the shock it brought. I remember seeing it and one woman was so scared so badly by the end her husband needed ushers to help him get her out of the theatre!
Great stephen king adaptation and great brian de palma film! his film "The Fury" is almost lika spiritual successor to the whole telepathic thing in Carrie but it's a wildly different and very underrated movie in his filmography. You guys should deff watch more of DePalma!!
I met William Katz, who was in this movie, at Comic Con. He starred in the 80s TV show Greatest American Hero. I got his autograph for that show.
Still gives me chills, tragic and horrific…you guys were visibly moved by this one and rightly so, it’s an emotional one.
Love this film - a ‘70s classic. Poor Carrie! ♥️
So glad you did this one. My favorite horror film of all time. Excellent story, outstanding acting, fantastic suspense(the buildup to the blood, I mean come on..masterful), and if you don't know it's coming the best jump scare ending ever. if anyone wants to watch Carrie this is the version to watch hands down.
BTW..the ending was DePalma's idea and from what I've read, Stephen King preferred the films ending over his own from the novel.
Margaret White and Christine Hargensen are two of Stephen King’s most iconic villains because we’ve all likely come across people a little like them, but Margaret, man- holy shit. Piper Laurie was incredible in her operatic performance. When Margaret dies, she gets exactly what she always wanted, the only thing that can end her inner torment- the opportunity to die for her sins. That’s why she smiles.
I love this movie for the fact that it’s the only horror movie ever to have given me nightmares, thanks mostly to that Jesus statue (though it’s actually St. Sebastian the Martyr, but still creepy🤓). That jump scare at the end is why I also enjoy reaction videos!
An absolute masterful breakdown of this film, guys. This is why I follow you. Its not just a reaction. It’s much more. Keep up the good work!
This was great guys!! I'm so glad you watched this and liked it! Wonderful film. Thank you!
I was hoping that you would react to this movie. The statue in the prayer cupboard is martyr St. Sebastian. He was tied to a tree, shot with arrows & later sentenced to death by the Roman emperor. In spite of her age, Sissy Spacek truly makes you believe that she is a frightened, innocent teenager. George Lucas and Brian DePalma had a joint casting session for Star Wars and Carrie. Just imagine, Curly haired William Katt could have been Skywalker
Fun fact: Betty Buckley (Eight is Enough, M. Night Shyamalan’s Split), who played the gym teacher, went on to be a legendary Broadway actress, probably best known for originating the role of Grizabella in Cats (seriously, UA-cam their Tony Awards performance, she is astounding). One of her other famous roles was playing Margaret White, Carrie’s mother, in the infamous Broadway musical adaptation of Carrie!
It seems overdone now, but I believe the jump scare at the end was one of the earliest, if not the first, versions of the end-of-horror-film shocker.
You should absolutely watch The Rage: Carrie 2, not because it’s a good movie, but it is so completely of its time (it is VERY 90s). Plus, Amy Irving returns as Sue.
The actress in the red hat was PJ Soles, who was also in the original Halloween (Totally!).
And crazy connection: John Travolta made "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" for television, costarring (the much older) Diana Hyland, to whom he became engaged. She was then cast as the mom in "Eight is Enough," filmed four episodes, and then died tragically from breast cancer. Replacing her on the show, as a new character (a widowed schoolteacher) was Betty Buckley.
Great analysis and reaction. I think the lead characters, especially Carrie (Sissy Spacek) and her mother (Piper Laurie) also help tremendously. Laurie went big as she thought it was supposed to be over-the-top from what I've heard, but she's committed to the character. And of course Spacek as Carrie, capably pulling off all the naivete part without looking ridiculous. I used to think the score was a bit much, but now, watching her push her mom to the bed with that accompanying Psycho squeel, I recognize that the sound helps to cover up cheap effects (of Laurie simply falling backward). The '70's has some outstanding horror with The Exorcist, Carrie, Alien, and Halloween all coming that decade. The actresses in those films, really all the actors, were compelling despite some very horrific situations.
There's a crazy theory that Carrie had the Shining, but it grew through the emotional trauma and abuse and finally manifested into actual telekinesis.
This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid! Sissy Spacek brought this character to life like no one else could! I still see Carrie every time I look at her! 😮😮😮
All three actresses to head up this movie were either Tony, Emmy, or Oscar winners and multiple Emmy, Tony and Oscar nominees.
Fun fact: The girl with the red cap is played by PJ Soles who you guys may remember from also playing Lynda in the original Halloween !
She also plays the MC in *Rock and Roll High School* with The Ramones. (The Ramones also sing the theme song to the movie Pet Sematary)
She wore a dumb red cap in Halloween, too! Always thought that was such a weird choice.
The dream sequence at the end was inspired by the dream at the end of the movie "Deliverance".
20:51 Tom: "this is where Carrie's hand comes up like ah! and grabs it!" 😂 Sean: "yeah even when dead"
21:00 Also Tom: 😱😱 Also Sean: "OMG!! "😱
Eat your words, boys? 😉 To be fair, that jump scare never fails to make me jump either EVEN after so many rewatches of this film!! 👏👏The music in sync with the bloody hand in motion ... icing on the cake!!
The social norms were a lot different than the what is considered normal these days. Your responses to this difference is fascinating and fun to watch. Keep up the great work, gentlemen
It's funny how youn people react to the behavior of the "kids" in Carrie. 70s kids weren't weak little snowflakes, and the behavior of the characters in Carrie HAD to be kicked up to such an extreme level in order to justify Carrie's reaction.
Glad you guys enjoyed it! It's one of my favorites since Carrie was one of the first horror films I watched as a young kid on VHS (my uncle owned a video store and I pretty much got to watch whatever I wanted back then). That final scare at the end was fairly original at the time (it was allegedly an homage to a scene in Deliverance) and has maybe become trite since the "hand bursting out of the ground" has been used so many times afterwards. I also watched the remake and agree with Tom that it was pretty unmemorable.
Indeed, the final jumpscare motif and the hand coming out of the grave became recurring in horror movies after this!
"Take that dumb red hat off you weirdo". If I had a dollar for every time I've said that in the past 6 years...
YES!!!!! At last!!!!! Ok, dropping everything to watch this now!!!!! In this movie....the horror is Carrie's life!!!!
When it was open in Korea first time, the hand at the end was so scary that they put out a warning about ending, which is straight up spoiler, but that is how shocking it was back then!!
Bwahahaha, when you predicted Carrie's hand coming up and still jumped..🤣 loved it.
This is a classic. I've always liked it, but it's so sad, I cannot watch it often. Poor Tommy, poor teacher, poor Sue, poor Carrie. 😭
When Tom thought that Chris had her own foot in her mouth in the car scene with John Travolta's character - I was dying.
loved your reaction guys to this horror classic. i saw it on it's release in a crowded theater and the audience laughed through a lot of it especially at Carrie's wigged out mother - then everybody screamed when Carries bloody hand grabs Sue at the end. one of the first and best jump-scares ever
A Stephen King adaptation I would HIGHLY recommend watching is 1922 on Netflix. It's adapted from one of Stephen King's novella's and is very accurate to the original with some exceptional acting and cinematography.
You literally called it that Carrie's hand would come up at the end and you both still shit your pants! lol
(the scene of Carrie covered in blood and walking with fire in the background always sticks with me)
Fun fact: When "Carrie" was adapted into a musical in the mid-80s, the actress Betty Buckley, who plays Miss Collins in this film, portrayed Margaret White in the original (and infamous!) Broadway production.
Yes, Betty Buckley is highly regarded stage actress! I got to meet her during her production of Sunset Boulevard in the mid-90's
@@highheartwellness and Broadway’s first Grizabella in Cats! she’s a legend, how lucky for you!
Yes! Finally!!! I have been waiting since, well 2020, for a Cinema Rules review of Carrie...and fellas, it did not disappoint. Great job!
What an amazing classic, definitely a horror standout!
"...and THIS nutcase..." that was one of the funniest things I've heard in weeks. Thank you for that. :)
Nice reaction to this absolute classic. I highly recommend checking out more of director Brian De Palma’s work from this period like “Dressed to Kill” and “Blow Out,” which stars John Travolta and Nancy Allen (Chris from “Carrie”) and really shows their versatility as actors, both very different from their roles in “Carrie.” Also, “Phantom of the Paradise” is a great cult film horror-satire of the 1970’s rock music scene. All these show off De Palma’s prime years.
I love Blow Out!!!! It’s really underrated.
Blow Out is great.