[ SECRET POST #3328 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3328 ⌋

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Comments

[(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.

[loracarol]

I haven't - I read the book back in high school, but other than occasionally rereading parts of it (I find it a bit too heavy to read all at once.) |D I haven't reread it in it's entirety since.

I'll keep that in mind re: the remake, though. I don't think the library here has a copy of the old one. :O

[nonnymouscawitz]

Stephen King is like that. He writes goddamn masterpieces but they could all be about 200 pages shorter. My mom used to joke that he'd spend three pages describing a doorknob just so a character could open the door.

Chloe Grace Moretz is a really good actress, especially considering her age. I'd watch it if you get a chance, but the original really is quite good.

[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.

[nonnymouscawitz]

I'm more creeped out in the remake. In the old movie they all looked 30. In the remake, we have the exact same ~long lingering shots of legs and thighs and wet~ but Chloe Grace Moretz was actually underage at the time. Significantly so, I believe she was 15.

[eyeshine72]

I haven't seen it, but that's really creepy. O.o

[loracarol]

Considering what happens, I'm not surprised by that. >_>;;

[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. :)

[nonnymouscawitz]

This is true! I'm not good with biology... :) But yeah, metaphor. Didn't the entire story have roots in Stephen King wanting to write a girl getting her first period and the ensuing trauma?

[eyeshine72]

Yeah, I think so. Or something to do with burgeoning sexuality. Oh Stephen.

[nonnymouscawitz]

Stephen King is the only adult male who could write about teenage girl's emerging sexuality and 10 year olds having orgies (thank you, IT) without being crucified by the public.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure that Stephen King has admitted that he barely remembers anything about writing Carrie because he was high as a kite at the time....

[nonnymouscawitz]

Yeah I saw that about several of his earlier books.

[bookish_dragon]

He has written books while high as a kite, but those came later. Carrie was one of the first books he sold, and he remembers writing it quite clearly. It came way before his addictions.

[(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.