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⌈ Secret Post #3328 ⌋

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Comments

[nonnymouscawitz]

I just don't find it scary. At all. Thoroughly enjoyable, but not scary.

That being said, I don't find it satisfying when she kills everyone for several reasons: 1) Several of the people she killed had never done a thing to her, and the gym teacher at least had actively tried to help her. (Also, in the book, isn't her date alive but unconscious until she bars the gym and essentially seals his fate?) 2) These are teenagers. Horrible, bullying, asshole teenagers, yes, but teenagers who did not come home to their parents. And 3) Carrie herself is miserable afterwards, especially when she kills her mother. We may be happy because her mother is a psycho, but to Carrie she's lost everything she ever loved.

I think too much about these things.

[(Anonymous)]

Agree with your feelings about her killing everyone. Plus, if I recall rightly, wasn't she sort of unaware of just how powerful her abilities were? Like, obviously she was angry and hurt, but I don't know if she necessarily intended to go THAT far in using her powers that night; rather, they just went WAY out of control? I could be wrong on that one, though, it's been some time since I've seen the film.

I also agree that it's not the most terrifying horror film I've ever seen, but there are a couple parts I remember finding quite creepy all the same. The ending is disturbing and startling, and there's also a moment at Carrie's home, when her mom is on a rampage and coming after her with a knife-there's a point where you see the mom from Carrie's perspective as she's cowering on the floor, and the mom's got this really freaky look on her face and laughing maniacally.

And then after the tragedy at the high school, when Carrie's walking home later that night drenched in the blood, the way her eyes are all bugged out...I wouldn't want to encounter that driving down the road late at night, let's just put it that way.

[nonnymouscawitz]

She was very out of control, if I recall, and except for a few incidents she'd never really used her powers before. At the very least, killing her mother seemed accidental.

Oh yes, there are some really creepy visuals, it just doesn't really fit horror movies as we know them today. Although my mom says when she first saw the original, last minute jump scares weren't a big thing and it scared the hell out of her.

[(Anonymous)]

That's right, yeah. I remember her kinda experimenting with them a bit. Plus, given how haywire teenage emotions can be sometimes, I sense that would've been a factor as well. And her relationship with her mom was so complicated, so yeah. Just a really unfortunate collision of events and feelings all around.

Ha, yeah, my mom said when she first saw that movie in theaters the entire audience screamed at the end :p. I tend to prefer this sort of horror, though-it's more subtle and more effective in a lot of ways, I think. Most of the horror films I've seen in recent years focus more on the gore and guts and it's just not as scary to me, personally.

[nonnymouscawitz]

I believe it was supposed to be directly linked to the fact that she was now menstruating? And let's be real if she didn't get her period until her senior year, she probably had some physical or hormonal issues.

I don't like the gore and guts but I enjoy when something burst onto the screen and I jump. Subtle horror leaves me cold.

[loracarol]

I've never seen the film, but from the book, I thought she was supposed to be kind of underweight? Gluttony is a sin and all that, but I can't remember if that's my headcanon or canon-canon.

[nonnymouscawitz]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I mentioned physical problems. But I'm not sure how underweight you have to be before you have issues with menstruation and I think she was actually pudgy and acne prone? I remember people saying Sissy Spacek was too pretty to play Carrie.

[loracarol]

According to wikipedia, "She is blonde-haired with brown eyes, full-figured, has acne, and is considered unattractive, though she is described as having been very pretty as a little girl."

I know that she does have breasts, because that's where the whole "dirty pillows" thing comes in, but I'm not actually what "full-figured" entails (like, hourglass shaped?)

Though, stress can stop periods, and supposedly her powers put her under stress/living with her mom could stress her out, quite a bit, so it's possible that she just doesn't have her period because of those reasons.

[nonnymouscawitz]

I looked it up and according to the book the description includes 'She was a slightly chunky girl with pimples on her neck and back and buttocks, '

It's odd that she would have breasts and no period, but it is just now ocurring to me that Stephen King was a grown man writing in the seventies and may not have been all that informed on the glory of menstruation.

I suspect it's probably stress and metaphor.

[loracarol]

Huh. I guess the movie version of her must have made more of an impression on my than I though. >_>;;

Even though I still haven't seen it.

[nonnymouscawitz]

Yeah but given the way the original movie has flooded public memory and the viral marketing campaign for the remake, that's understandable.

Have you seen either of them? The original is fairly good, if a bit dated. The remake was SIGNIFICANTLY better than one would expect from a remake, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

And of course the book is always gold.

[eyeshine72]

The old movie is good, but in the beginning there's this montage of the high school girls in the locker room that always creeped me out.

[eyeshine72]

Eh, the breasts and periods don't always go together. I know quite a few girls where they didn't match up. But yeah, it's probably from environmental stress and metaphor. :)

[(Anonymous)]

full figured is a polite way of saying overweight.

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC, she'd been practicing with her abilities and exploring them ever since she realized what they were, and she'd used them on her mom when her mom tried to stop her going to the prom. If she was surprised at all by her abilities when she used them at the gym, it was in a gleeful, "succeeded beyond her wildest dreams" way.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, any teenager who pours goddamn animal blood on an already socially awkward and outcasted girl in front of hundreds of people, are shitty human beings.
There's bullying and then there's beig a sociopath.

[nonnymouscawitz]

Absolutely, but assuming Carrie went to an average sized high school and that Juniors are allowed to go to prom, there were likely 100-200 other people at that prom who didn't dump pigs blood on her. And the laughing is implied, between the book and the weird special effects in the original movie, to be a) mostly out of nerves and confusion and b) At least partially in Carrie's head.

[otakugal15]

Wait, i thought in the book she saved the teacher? Mind, it's been YEARS since I last read the book. And I remember therr being a kind of friendship between her and tye other girl. And I think there was sorta one in the original film. I think.

[nonnymouscawitz]

Wikipedia tells me she live in the book and the 2013 film, but she dies in the 1970s film, and the secret is not clear on which one they're referring to so I've been kind of smushing them together in my head.

She did have some sort of relationship with Sue depending on which version you read, but Sue survives in every version.

[otakugal15]

Huh, I could of sworn she died in the remake. I've seen it once and I actually kind of liked it.

I just wish they had Carrie live, like in the book. :C

But ok, thanks!

And curse mobile, I type as carefully as possible and I still mess up spectacularly. Poo.

[nonnymouscawitz]

Wikipedia led me to believe she didn't, but I haven't seen it since it was in theaters.

...But Carrie dies in the book? Carrie always dies unless you take the weird made-for-tv sequel to be canon.

You're welcome, I am always here to fact-check!

That's ok, I can't spell my own username so I can't even get mobile running.

[otakugal15]

I thought she was driven to the outskirts of town and Sue let her out and she just...leaves. or was that in the tv adaptation? Not the sequel, but the book adaptation. It aired in 2002 on abc 24 (here anyway. I have no idea what the other state channel number is for the standard abc channel).

Man, I am gonna have to sit down and reread that book and rewatch EVERYTHING.

[nonnymouscawitz]

Yeah that's the weird made-for-tv one that got an equally weird sequel. She's dead in the books and the theatrical releases.

You should reread the book anyway because it remains awesome, as do the films.

[otakugal15]

Yeah, I just went to the wiki page and yeah, it was the tv adaptation. I actually kind of liked that one....>_>;;;

[nonnymouscawitz]

I honestly haven't seen it, I've only seen people complain about it.