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Starring: Sissy Spacek,  Piper Laurie,  Amy Irving,  William Katt,  Betty Buckley, 
Directed By: Brian De Palma, 
Rated: R (Restricted)
Release Date: 1976-11-03
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: Anamorphic,  Closed-captioned,  Color,  Dolby,  DVD-Video,  Special Edition,  Subtitled,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

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Product Description
At the center of terror is Carrie a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence no friends...and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far the once-shy teen becomes an unrestrained vengeance-seeking powerhouse who with the help of her 'special gift' causes all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood fire and brimestone!System Requirements:Starring Amy Irving Betty Buckley John Travolta P.J. Soles Piper Laurie Sissy Spacek William Katt Directed by Brian De Palma Running time: 98 minutes Copyright MGM 2003Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 027616865519 Manufacturer No: 1002332

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This terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel was directed by shock maestro Brian De Palma for maximum, no-holds-barred effect. Sissy Spacek stars as Carrie White, the beleaguered daughter of a religious kook (Piper Laurie) and a social outcast tormented by her cruel, insensitive classmates. When her rage turns into telekinetic powers, however, school's out in every sense of the word. De Palma's horrific climax in a school gym lingers forever in the memory, though the film is also built upon Spacek's remarkable performance and Piper Laurie's outlandishly creepy one. John Travolta has a small part as a thug, De Palma's future wife, Nancy Allen, is his girlfriend, and Amy Irving makes her screen debut as one of the girls giving Carrie a hard time. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews for Carrie (Special Edition)

"Carrie" marked Brian De Palma's breakthrough...,
It is a classic offbeat horror-melodrama merging harmoniously the family Gothic extravaganza, supernatural power, and a woman's movie of a peculiar kind... It remains the cinema's best adaptation of a Stephen King novel...

The film initiated De Palma's inclination for surprise diverts between playful imagination and reality, as in the opening, which swifts from a soft-core porn fantasia of girls taking a shower in the locker room to the fact of Carrie's menstruation for the first time--the first sign of "otherness" that will reserve her as an horrifying monster from her small-minded colleagues...

All the oppression that Carrie undergoes both at home (with a bible beating maniacal mother played by scary Piper Laurie who develops twisted bizarre ideas) and at school to suppress tension which takes the shape of super telekinetic power, the ability to move objects with the strength of her mind... We observe with ambivalence as Carrie's insatiable revenge jumps the line into uncontrolled mass murders ever filmed...

Sissy Spacek is amazing as the mocked, helpless girl pushed over the edge... Her face and body twist like a living special effect to unleash her pent up rage, as well as her character's alarming progress from painfully shy high-school teenager to Angel of Vengeance...

Carrie (Special Edition)

One of the greatest horror movies
Stephen King's "Carrie" is one of the greatest horror movies made and a truly scary film that has numerous heart-pounding moments. Sissy Spacek gives one of her best performances and Piper Laurie also does a tremendous job as Carrie's mother. John Travolta fans will enjoy seeing him in an early role as a tough bad boy who's partly responsible for setting the film's action in motion. This adaptation is one of the best movie versions based on a Stephen King film. In fact, it may be THE best.Carrie (Special Edition)

CARRIE - I Think She Got Carrie(d) Away
CARRIE was an excellent and very popular horror film of 1976 which earned four or five stars in my book. This DVD is a good clear transfer and has several very good documentaries on the making of the film, casting, and special effects. It is a must buy for all Steven King fans who wish to own one of his most well done and successful story transfers to the screen.

At the risk of taking the film plot too seriously I offer the following comments: I had never read the book and was very surprised when Carrie reacted as violently as she did to that dirty trick. Up until the ending she was portrayed as such a sympathetic and mild character that she really surprised me at the end of the story. She thoughtlessly did away with the innocent as well as the guilty and I couldn't help but notice that her telekinetic powers gave her no insights into the behavior of those around her. She never even looked down or offered a helping hand to her well meaning date Tommy, and allowed him to burn along with all the other well intentioned characters that attended her prom and were not in on that dirty joke in any way.

I guess this gave the screen writers license to subject her and her poor demented mother to the most horrible final fate when they were creamated in that spectacular house fire and collapsed into the Earth. I have been told that back in the days of the early Universal horror movies if a character was guilty of "murder" they absolutely had to die at the end of the film. Carrie certainly paid the ultimate price for her violent revenge. Of course, if Carrie had done something less spectacular it wouldn't have been much of a horror story.
Carrie (Special Edition)

"They are all gonna laugh at you!!!"
This is an old movie but a good horror movie for young and old fans. Stephen King is a master mind when it comes to character development and his characters are captured perfectly by the young Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and the many cast of characters in this movie. You can not help but feel sorry for Carrie (Spacek) while you fear her as she struggles with the trails and tribulations of today's teen geek while dealing with a whack out mother/ Bible Thumper (no offense tended to all of us religious folks) at home. After watching this movie, you will have a few choice words for the mother of Carrie in which can not be put in this review. In fact, you feel for Carrie as the real villian of the movie is Mom. The acting is great from all angles to the bullies, the teachers, Carrie, and of course Mom. My favorite line in the movie is "The are all gonna laugh at you!" from the hysterical Mom. A must watch for all horror fans and Stephen King fans alike!Carrie (Special Edition)

CARRIE ROCKS!
I think this was Sissy Spacek's best movie of them all and showing Spacek at her best with interesting telekenetic powers and showing us what it's like for a lot of typical teenagers that get picked on in high school as well as going through the typical teenage peer pressures and growing pains that most adolescents go through, which assured a lot of us that we're not alone in that department, not to mention "CARRIE" had some very cute chicks in it too starting out with an intriguing nude scene in the girls locker room with full frontal nudity using beautiful music scoring by Pino Donaggio while the gals in Carrie's P.E. class are freshening up at the end of the PE period by showing us Carrie's classmates getting dressed and showering, including Carrie's nude scene in the shower.

I'm just surprised that they didn't show Sissy Spacek's vagina in that nude scene like they did with Nancy Allen and half the other gals in the lockerroom, especially since Carrie was the main character in the movie, but I still enjoyed seeing Sissy Spacek, Nancy Allen, and PJ Soles naked like many other people did.

I also like the way the PE teacher(Betty Buckley) stood up for Carrie and how she handled all the girls in Carrie's PE class after bullying Carrie with the crappy stunt they pulled on Carrie when she started her period and I especially liked the way the PE Teacher handled Christine Hargenson(Nancy Allen), since Hargenson ended up getting what she deserved from Miss Collins(Betty Buckley), but one of the things that I found baffling in this movie was Norma(P.J. Soles) never took her hat off in the movie, not even at the prom, which made Norma look kind of corny.

Therefore, the only time Norma ever took her hat off was during her nude scene in the girls lockerroom showers, which I also found intriguing, since P.J. Soles also came out in the original "HALLOWEEN" two years later playing the devirginized sassy high school cheerleeder(Lynda) who also ends up dying in the 1978 flick of HALLOWEEN as well, which also did a sex scene in that movie with partial nudity showing PJ's breast at the end of her lovemaking, except P.J. Soles wasn't as annoying in John Carpenters "HALLOWEEN" as she was in "CARRIE".

As a matter of fact, P.J. Soles sexy nude scene in the girls lockerroom at the beginning of the movie "CARRIE" is initially what helped P.J. Soles to get the role for Lynda in John Carpenter's "HALLOWEEN", since P.J. Soles impressive nude scene in CARRIE had potentially inspired John Carpenter to consider P.J. Soles for a teenage role in HALLOWEEN and chances are Nancy Allen's intriguing nude scene in CARRIE had inspired director(Bryan DePalma) for her sexy nude scene in DRESSED TO KILL a few years later.

I also found it to be a shame that Carrie even ended up killing her coach(Betty Buckley) towards the end of the movie when Carrie ends up killing most of the prom attendants at her high school when she uses her powers to blow up the whole gymnasium after Carrie's stuck up classmate(Christine Hargenson) pulls a nasty stunt on Carrie to ruin and embarrass her at the prom, in order to avenge Carrie, especially after Hargenson ends up getting banned from the prom by Coach Collins.Carrie (Special Edition)

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