If you've got a taste for terror... take Carrie to the prom

To be honest, the first thing I thought when I saw the number of the film was the Europe band song, however, was impossible a connection between both Carries because the song was written on 80's and the film was created on 70's.


Carrie was a movie directed by Brian De Palma and starred by Sissy Spacek (John Travolta was acting on this film too), based on a Stephen King book and had its premiere on 1976. It's about a quiet and shy girl called Carrie White who have to stand the mistreatment of her mother, a religious fanatic who thinks her daughter is a deliver of sin, and of her classmates due to her shyness, weakness and a particular event: She started her menstruation on the school dressing room and all the classmates laughted and throw to her a lot of tampons and sanitary napkins. For that, all the girls of the class received a scolding from the teacher and Chris (the leader of the attack) was punished being banned of the prom party. Chris wants to take revenge for the punishment who a teacher give to her for the incident of the tampons and, with the help of her boyfriend Billy, humilliate Carrie in front of all the students, teachers and parents prensent on the prom dance. In other side, Sue (one of the Carrie classmates) tries to correct her mistake and insists to her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom dance.

Her mother didn't tell her about menstruation so was normal Carrie got scared a lot.

On the film we can see Carrie have a secret: She discovers her telekinetic powers and them appears when she concentrates energy at some points (for example, she stare at a child who laughted at her and she attacked him). Carrie practice her powers away from her mother because she got mad when saw Carrie using them (her mother said her powers was a curse of Satan) and, at the same time, tries to be more sociable to go to the prom.

I don't want to tell the end of the film but I have to say that the special effects of the film are totally according to the decade xD If you can, take a look to the movie and the book.


Why I like that film? I feel a kind of empathy with Carrie, in a lot of circumstances I have wished to have a resources or the physical force to punish people who bothered me, however, I was so shy in my school days (mostly on primary) and I can't say nothing.
The other reason I like this film (and a less "sad" one) is the fact that you don't need a lots of monsters or a lots of weapons to make people scare, you can make unexpected things to do that possible, it's more like a psychological terror.
And, finally, this movie increases my opinion about the crazy and illogical things who religious fanatic people do... just look at the Carrie's mom, forcing her daughter to pray every night and blame her all the time for feeling "impure".

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