Carrie (film)

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Carrie
Image:Carrieposter.jpg Original 1976 theatrical poster
Directed by	Brian De Palma
Produced by	Brian De Palma Paul Monash
Written by	Novel: Stephen King Screenplay: Lawrence D. Cohen
Starring	Sissy Spacek Piper Laurie Amy Irving William Katt
Music by	Pino Donaggio
Cinematography	Mario Tosi
Editing by	Paul Hirsch
Distributed by	United Artists (1976 - 1981) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1982 - present)
Release date(s)	November 3, 1976
Running time	98 min.
Language	English
Budget	$1.8 million (est.)
Followed by	The Rage: Carrie 2
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Carrie is a 1976 American horror film directed by Brian De Palma based on the novel by Stephen King, with a screenplay written by Lawrence D. Cohen. The film, and its novel, deals with a socially discriminated teenage girl, Carrie White, who after being subjected to both physical and mental harassment by peers, her mother and teachers, discovers she harbors telekinetic powers. The film stars Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Betty Buckley, Amy Irving and John Travolta in one of his earliest film roles.

Carrie is regarded as a watershed in the horror genre and is seen as one of Stephen King's greatest feature film adaptations.^[1] The film was also a major success for United Artists, and went on to gross over $33 million at the U.S. box office (something equal to over $100 million these days, if one were to take into account inflation), upon its $1,800,000 budget, and was welcomed by immense critical acclaim.^[2][3] The film spawned a sequel The Rage: Carrie 2 and a made for television remake, released in 2002, neither of which De Palma participated in.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Pre-production 3.2 Filming 4 Reaction 4.1 Box office performance 4.2 Awards and critical reception 5 Music 6 Differences between 1976 film and novel 7 References in popular culture 8 Sequels, remakes and related works 9 References

[edit] Plot

The film begins during a PE lesson, the girls are playing volleyball and Carrie misses the ball, the girls on her team groan at her and one hits her with a baseball cap. In the locker-room full of teenage girls, including Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), Carrie experiences her first period, and after becoming distressed, cries out for help. Instead of helping, the other girls pelt her with tampons and pads and chant "plug it up" to ridicule her. Her teacher Miss Collins (Betty Buckley) rushes in to stop the commotion. White, who appears to be bottling extreme rage, snaps a light bulb. After questioning Carrie, Miss Collins realizes that Carrie is unaware of the concept of menstruation. Because of this, Miss Collins asks the school principal to excuse Carrie from gym class for a week because of the trauma. After repeated mispronunciations of Carrie's name by the principal, Carrie snaps out "It's Carrie!" at the principal and causing the ashtray on his desk to mysteriously pop-up in the air and break on the floor. Upon her way home, Carrie uses her recently discovered telekinesis to stop a boy from teasing her. While at home, Carrie is tormented by her delusional, heavily religious mother (Piper Laurie), who locks Carrie in a closet and forces her to pray--she believes that Carrie received her period due to sinning.

Miss Collins, still livid about the incident, berates the other girls and forces them through an athletic detention, deliberately overworking them. The leader of the clique, Chris Hargensen (Nancy Allen), refuses to participate and is banned from the upcoming senior prom as punishment. Furious, she blames Carrie for her misfortune. Meanwhile, another one of the girls, Sue Snell (Amy Irving), feels guilty about her part in teasing Carrie so she asks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross (William Katt), to take Carrie to the prom. Tommy begrudgingly agrees. When Tommy asks Carrie to the prom, she refuses, thinking that yet another trick is being played on her. After a comforting pep talk with Miss Collins, and after Tommy's further insistence, Carrie finally agrees to go to the prom with Tommy.

While everyone else is getting ready for the prom, Chris schemes with her boyfriend Billy Nolan (John Travolta) and best friend Norma (P.J. Soles) to get revenge on Carrie. They go to a farm and slaughter some pigs, drain their blood into a bucket, and place the bucket on one of the rafters in the school gym. Carrie asks her mother’s permission to go to the prom. Her mother becomes unhinged at the suggestion, commenting that Tommy is only after her for sex and that this will lead her down a road to perpetual sin. This leads to a violent argument between Carrie and her mother during which Carrie uses her telekinesis to slam windows shut and confesses her newfound power to her mother. After another fight between Carrie and her mother the night of the prom, Carrie uses her powers to push her mother into a bed and tells her that she must stop worrying.

Carrie and Tommy arrive at the prom, and Carrie begins to feel accepted by Tommy’s peers. Miss Collins relates to Carrie the story of her own prom, telling her she should cherish the memory forever. Carrie and Tommy dance together; Tommy has since fallen for Carrie and kisses her.

As per Chris’ instructions, Norma and some of Billy’s friends fix the ballots so that Carrie and Tommy are elected prom king and queen. They make their way to the stage, and Carrie finally feels what it’s like to be accepted.

Meanwhile, Sue sneaks into the prom and sees Chris and Billy under the stage. She realizes their plan: Chris is going to yank a cord and dump the pig's blood over Carrie as she is declared prom queen. Sue rushes toward the stage frantically, but is intercepted by Miss Collins, who thinks that Sue is out to make trouble for Carrie after seeing that Carrie and Tommy are together. Miss Collins throws her out of the gym. At that exact moment, Chris yanks the cord, drenching Carrie in pig's blood.

The students gasp and look on in horror (except for Norma, who laughs hysterically). Tommy is furious, but the bucket falls and knocks him unconscious. Carrie snaps and imagines that all of the students and faculty are laughing at her (though in reality only Billy's friends whohelped fix the ballots and Norma are laughing), which her mother warned her would happen. After Chris and Billy run outside, Carrie telekinetically shuts all of the doors, one of which crushes two students. Carrie turns off the lights and activates and subsequently controls a fire hose, knocking Norma unconscious and spraying water at other students at high pressure knocking them to the ground. Miss Collins gathers several students and attempts to move the unconscious Tommy, but Carrie uses her power to push Miss Collins against a wall and then crushes her to death with a falling basketball rafter. Carrie uses the hose to electrocute the school's principal and another teacher who are trying to calm down the panicking students using a microphone, setting the stage ablaze. The fire spreads rapidly through the gym. Carrie exits the burning gym, trapping the remaining students inside.

Chris and Billy, who had witnessed Carrie massacring the entire student body, attempt to run Carrie over with Billy’s car. Carrie senses this, and flips the car over before it can hit her. The car explodes, killing Chris and Billy.

When Carrie finally makes it home, she finds the house full of lit candles. She goes upstairs and takes a bath, scrubbing off all the blood and sobbing. After she finishes, she finds her mother and hugs her, crying. Mrs. White holds her and tells her the story of how she was conceived in result of a strange marital rape. Then, convinced that her daughter is evil, she takes out a hidden knife and stabs Carrie in the back. Carrie falls down the stairs, and stumbles away from her mother. When her mother corners her in the kitchen, Carrie uses her power to crucify her mother with kitchen knives. After her mother dies, Carrie is wrought with guilt, and her power becomes so out of control that the house begins crumbling, and the numerous candles set it ablaze. Carrie takes her dead mother into the prayer closet one last time as the house burns down around them.

Some time later, Sue, having survived the prom night catastrophe, is having great difficulty dealing with the deaths of Tommy and her friends. She has a dream in which she visits the lot where Carrie’s house once stood. As she reaches down to put flowers on the burnt lot, Carrie’s bloody hand reaches up from the rubble and grabs her. Sue wakes up screaming in the arms of her mother.

[edit] Cast

• Sissy Spacek as Carietta "Carrie" White
• Piper Laurie as Margaret White
• Amy Irving as Susan "Sue" Snell
• William Katt as Thomas "Tommy" Ross
• Betty Buckley as Miss Collins
• Nancy Allen as Christine "Chris" Hargensen
• P.J. Soles as Norma Watson
• John Travolta as William "Billy" Nolan
• Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Snell

[edit] Production

[edit] Pre-production

Carrie was the first Stephen King novel to be published and the first to be adapted in a feature film. The film was produced by United Artists who had given the position of director to Brian De Palma, even though he was not the studio's first choice.^{[citation needed]} De Palma told Cinefantastique magazine in an interview in 1977: "I read the book. It was suggested to me by a writer friend of mine. A writer friend of his, Stephen King, had written it. I guess this was almost two years ago [circa 1975]. I liked it a lot and proceeded to call my agent to find out who owned it. I found out that nobody had bought it yet. A lot of studios were considering it, so I called around to some of the people I knew and said it was a terrific book and I'm very interested in doing it. Then nothing happened for, I guess, six months."^[4]

Lawrence D. Cohen was hired as the writer, and produced the first draft, which had closely followed the novel's intentions.^[5] However, later versions departed from King's vision rapidly, and certain scripted scenes were omitted from the final version, mainly due to financial limitations.

The final scene, in which Sue Snell reaches into Carrie's grave, was shot backwards to give it a dreamlike quality. It was also filmed at night, using artificial lighting to create the desired effect. This scene was inspired by the final scene in Deliverance (1972).^{[citation needed]} Spacek had insisted on using her own hand in the given scene, so she was built in under the rocks and gravel. De Palma stated 'Sissy, come on, I'll get a stunt person, what do you want, to be buried in the ground?!' However Spacek declared 'Brian, I have to do this.' De Palma explains that they "had to bury her. Bury her! We had to put her in a box and stick her underneath the ground. Well, I had her husband bury her, because I certainly didn't want to bury her. I used to walk around and set up the shot and every once in a while, we'd hear Sissy: 'Are we ready yet?' 'Yeah, Sissy, we're gonna be ready real soon." The White house was filmed in Hermosa Beach, and to give the home a Gothic theme, director and producers went to religious shops looking for artifacts to place in the home.

George Lucas and De Palma held a joint audition for Carrie and Lucas's Star Wars (1977).^[6] There is a long-standing rumor that originally, Spacek was cast as Princess Leia, and Carrie Fisher as Carrie White, but when Fisher refused to appear in nude scenes and Spacek was willing to do them, they switched parts. However, Fisher refuted this story in a Premiere magazine article called "The Force Wasn't With Them," about actors who auditioned unsuccessfully for Star Wars. That article quoted Fisher as saying, "Not only do I love being nude, I would've been nude then... But anyway, it's total bullshit [that Fisher refused to play Carrie]." William Katt who played Tommy Ross also auditioned for Luke Skywalker and lost to Mark Hammill.

Coincidentally, one of the locations where Carrie was filmed, Palisades Charter High School, was at one time owned by the parents of Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, years before the school was built. The lot was then taken, some years after the couple had purchased it, by the State by eminent domain to build "Pali High."

Initially, Melanie Griffith had auditioned for the role, taking it as an opportunity to begin a career as a mature, adult actress. Sissy Spacek had been persuaded by husband Fisk to audition for the titular role. Fisk then convinced De Palma to let her audition. During her screen-test, Spacek rubbed Vaseline into her hair and didn't bother to wash her face. She also wore a sailor dress which her mother had made her in the seventh grade, with the hem cut off.^[7] Amy Irving was cast alongside mother Priscilla Pointer, who would also play Irving's character's mother. Nancy Allen was the last to audition.^[8]

[edit] Filming

In the script, as well as the novel, Carrie not only burns down her high school, but the entire town, and another scene featured the White's house being engulfed and then destroyed by falling rocks. Principal photography and filming began on May 17, 1976 and ended in July on a modest budget of USD $1.8 million, with a fifty day shooting schedule. Principal location shooting occurred in California, in Culver City Studios, Culver City, California and Los Angeles, California, the Bates High School scenes where filmed at Pier Avenue Junior High in Hermosa Beach, California, with the exception of the shots of the Bates High School athletic field, which were filmed at Palisades Charter High School in Pacific Palisades, California, and the shots of the school in flames and the gym scenes, which where both built inside Culver City Studios.

De Palma began with one director of photography, and cameraman Isidore Mankofsky, who was eventually replaced by Mario Tosi after conflict between Mankosky and De Palma ensued.^[9] Gregory M. Auer served as the special effects supervisor for Carrie, with Jack Fisk as art director. De Palma borrowed heavily from the films of Alfred Hitchcock, which as a result, gave Carrie a Hitchcockian tone. The most obvious example is the name of the high school, which is Bates High, a reference to Norman Bates from Psycho (1960). In addition, the four note violin theme from Psycho is used over and over in the film.

Much of the filming and production became problematic, most notably the prom scene, perhaps the most chaotic to film, and took over two weeks to shoot, with 35 takes. Auer added red, green and yellow food colouring to a bulk-sold concoction known in the cosmetics industry as 7-11 Blood. However, when it was put to use, the concoction kept drying and adhering to Spacek's skin because of the hot lights. The only solution was to hose Spacek down when the substance got gluey. Spacek, however, was willing to have the blood poured onto her, she stated "My initial reaction was it was a kind of warm sensual feeling being covered with this wet warm blanket, but after days of shooting the whole destruction scene, it got to be miserable and I was counting the days until we were through".^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Reaction

[edit] Box office performance

When Carrie was released on November 3, 1976 it had a limited release and opened at 409 theaters. After receiving a broader theatrical release, it grossed $5 million, and was one of the five top grossing films for the following two weeks.^{[citation needed]} Its final United States gross for 1976 was $33,800,000, more than eighteen times its budget of $1.8 million. The film, to todays money has made over $100 million in the US alone, it was a hit in other countries such as UK, Australia and France.

[edit] Awards and critical reception

The film received mostly positive reviews. Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times stated the film was an "absolutely spellbinding horror movie", as well as an "observant human portrait".^[10] Pauline Kael of The New Yorker stated that Carrie was "the best scary-funny movie since Jaws -- a teasing, terrifying, lyrical shocker", while a 1998 edition of The Movie Guide stated Carrie was a "landmark horror film".

Nevertheless, the film was not without its detractors. Variety called it "pure camp".^{[citation needed]} The most widespread criticism of the film is the artificiality of the special effects, and the pretentiousness of some of the film's dramatic scenes.

In addition to being a box office success, Carrie is notable for being one of the few horror films in existence to be nominated for multiple Academy Awards. Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie both received nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards, respectively. The film also won the grand prize at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, while Sissy Spacek was given the Best Actress award by the National Society of Film Critics. This movie ranked number 15 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies, and #44 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Greatest Cinema Thrills, and was also ranked eighth for its famous ending sequence on Bravo network's five-hour miniseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004).^[11]

[edit] Music

The score for Carrie was composed by Pino Donaggio. Donaggio has been repeatedly referred to as the equivalent of Alfred Hitchcock's frequent score collaborator Bernard Herrmann. De Palma states that he "was put on to him by a good friend of mine, the "Time" magazine film critic Jay Cocks, who had always liked his music and suggested him to me when Bernard Herrmann unfortunately passed away and I was looking for another composer. I listened to his records and talked it over with him and felt he was the right kind of combination."^{[citation needed]} In addition, two pop songs ("Born To Have It All" and "I Never Dreamed Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me") were written for the early portion of the prom sequence and were performed by Katie Irving, sister of star Amy Irving. The soundtrack was originally released on vinyl in 1976 under the United Artists label; a deluxe CD edition containing a few tracks of dialogue from the film was released by MGM/Rykodisc in 1997. A 2005 CD re-release of the original soundtrack (minus dialogue) is available from Varèse Sarabande. Donaggio would work again with De Palma on Dressed To Kill, Home Movies, Blow Out, Body Double, and Raising Cain.

[edit] Differences between 1976 film and novel

Carrie bears significant differences with the original novel. The physical description of Carrie White was changed. In the novel, Carrie is slightly overweight with long, flat dirty blonde hair and pimples on her neck, back and buttocks. However, in the movie, she has a small frame, reddish blonde hair and clear skin. Also, in the novel, the name of the high school was Ewen Consolidated High School. For the film, it was changed to Bates High School (a homage to the character Norman Bates from Psycho.) Other major differences include:

• In the book, Chris and her boyfriend Billy do not wait around after drenching Carrie with blood and only learn what she has done some time later. In the movie, Chris and Billy view Carrie through the gym windows wrecking havoc on the prom goers immediately after she has been soaked with blood.
• In the novel, Carrie's mother is a large, heavyset and rather ugly woman with white hair and rimless bifocals, whereas in the movie, she's slim, with relatively pleasant features and brownish-red hair. Both versions tend to portray the character cloaked in black at all times.
• In the film, Carrie's mother is killed in a manner that closely resembles crucifixion; in fact she crucifies her mother the same way as her small figure of Saint Sebastian, with her arms pinned up by kitchen knives and potato peelers. In the book, after Carrie is stabbed, Carrie uses her powers to slow her mother's heart down to a complete stop. This version is later used in the remake of the movie.
• In the book, after Carrie has the blood spilled on her, she runs out of the school before closing all the doors, and she then sets off the fire sprinklers. She causes an electrical fire, and at that point, she decides to leave them to burn to death. She then walks across town, using her powers to strip the hydrants along the way, blow up gas stations and bring down live wires from telephone poles, killing many more than in the movie as she spreads the mayhem across the town of Chamberlain, Maine. (Those scenes were cut from the final draft of the script, and not produced because of the small budget).
• In the novel, Carrie is also gifted with a limited telepathy (i.e., ability to communicate outside the normal range of sensory experience), and she unknowingly broadcasts her thoughts to onlookers throughout the city as she brings chaos throughout it. In the movie, there is no sign of this ability.
• In the book, Billy Nolan tries to kill Carrie, while in the 1976 film, his girlfriend Chris Hargensen tries to kill her. In both the film and the book, Chris and Billy end up being crushed in their car and killed.
• Both the film and the book see Carrie dying in guilt for killing her mother, but the film has her death set up because of falling debris striking her on the head. In the book, Carrie leaves her house after killing her mother and continues back into the town. It is at this point that Chris and Billy try to run her over, but she manages to swipe their car aside, killing them both by running the car into a roadhouse, where it catches on fire. Overusing her telekinetic powers, however, has put too much stress on her body, and Carrie collapses. Sue comes up and has a telepathic conversation with her before she dies, also inviting her into her mind to prove that Sue was, in fact, innocent. In the book, Carrie's death is the result of blood loss from the knife wound, shock, and coronary occlusion as a result of the stress that overusing her telekinetic abilities placed upon her circulatory system.
• In the novel, the entire story is portrayed as documentary-esque police interviews in the aftermath of the massacre in Chamberlain, Maine. As such, many things were left out from the end of the novel where Carrie destroys the town.
• In the movie, after Carrie has blown up half of the city, she returns back home and takes a bath to wash off the pig's blood whereas in the novel, Carrie does not take a bath and goes straight into the conversation with her mother.

[edit] References in popular culture

Carrie has had a strong effect on popular culture and has been spoofed several times in the media. Most notably, the end prom sequence has spawned countless imitations

• Adam Sandler's album "They're all going to laugh at you..." contains a track called, "Oh Mom..." , in which children ask permission from their mother to do things, and the mother constantly replies, "NO! They're all going to laugh at you!" This is based on the famous line in the movie spoken by Carrie's mother (Piper Laurie), which is repeated before Carrie gets her revenge at the prom.
• In Scream (1996), a horror film which appears as a tongue-in-cheek approach to the genre, Billy says, "Corn syrup... same thing they used as pig's blood in 'Carrie'".
• In Sabrina The Teenage Witch, at character Sabrina's prom, Hilda says, "I can't believe that bouncer confiscated my pigs' blood. I swear sometimes I'm the only one who thought Carrie was a comedy."
• The final episode of the 2006 series of the British comedy The IT Crowd refers to the film when the female lead character is suffering from PMS, to explain to another character what is happening. After being completely oblivious to hints like "I've got Aunt Irma visiting", "it's my time of the month", "It's high tide", "I'm closed for maintenance" and "I've fallen to the Communists", the dumbfounded character finally realizes when a friend says "Carrie... first scene in Carrie".
• In a prom scene in Tiny Toon Adventures red punch is spilled on Shirley the Loon and she starts to go crazy. When Fifi Le Fume ask why people should leave, Babs Bunny grabs her and says "Remember the movie Carrie?"
• In the prom episode of "That '70s Show," you can hear Hyde's mother scream, "They're all gonna laugh at you!" before he exits his house, much like Carrie's mother tells her before Tommy Ross picks her up.
• In an episode of Family Guy, Pigs are dumped on Meg by Connie and her crew.
• In the 2006 film Another Gay Movie, a wet dream consists of one of the characters at a prom being drenched in semen instead of blood, and taunts of "they're gonna laugh at you' are heard in the background.
• In the "Crash Into Me, Part 2" episode of Grey's Anatomy, Nick, a patient whose carotid artery just exploded on an intern, effectively covering her with blood, says "I'm a little freaked out, to be honnest. Mostly because you look like Carrie at the prom."
• In the "Into You Like a Train" episode of Grey's Anatomy, Meredith says "Carrie at the prom with the pigs blood horrifying" while telling the barman that she asked Dr Derek Shepherd to pick her over his ex wife.
• In the TV series "Charmed" after receiving a new power she can not control, Piper states "soon I will be walking around like Carrie at the prom."
• In another episode of Charmed Hyde School Reunion Phoebe accidentally casts a spell on herself and flashes back to her rebellious teenage self, where Paige says claims she has seen both versions of Carrie, referring to Phoebe.
• In the opening scenes of the episode Mother's Little Helper of the series Medium, Ariel has a dream that is very similar to the ending of the movie.
• In the Addams Family Values movie, the last scene features Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci) and her boyfriend over the grave of the Addams kids' nanny. Wednesday states that if she had to kill her husband (which the nanny previously did several times), she'd make him die of fright. Her boyfriend answers that it isn't possible and reaches out to put flowers over the tomb. At that moment a hand shoots out of the grave and grabs his arm, while he screams in horror.
• The pig's blood scene is parodied in American Dad, in a flashback where it is Stan's prom night and his peers tell him that the prom queen wants to dance with him. He walks over to her and one of the bullies pulls a rope, releasing pigs on to him. *The first bully says "Pigs?! It was meant to be pig's blood!" to which the second bully responds "I didn't finish the book!" and finally the first bully says 'You stopped reading after pigs?! That's not even the end of the sentence!"
• In a Halloween special of Simpsons Comics, a tale called Dark Lisa was published as a mix of Carrie and the Dark Phoenix Saga in X-Men. Lisa is teased at school for being vegetarian in a similar vein to Carrie teased over her menustration; the most notable is when Bart, as vengeance against Lisa, rigs her shower with chili, the girls in the changing rooms throw paper towels at her shouting "Clean it up! Clean it up!" in reference to the girls throwing sanitation products at Carrie accompanied by cries of "Plug it up! Plug it up!" Further references include: Principal Skinner mistaking Lisa for Bart (the principal can't remember Carrie's name); Ralph is pushed off his bike telepathically while teasing Lisa (Carrie does the same to a little boy on a bike); Jessica Lovejoy and Nelson Muntz plan to humiliate Lisa even further at the Lemonade Ball (akin to Chris and Billy plotting against Carrie); Lisa sarcastically asks Nelson whether he's going to "boost my ego as Ball Queen and then have your friends dump chili over my head?", a swipe at the bucket of pig blood climax; and Lisa's new-found mastery of telepathy ends up massacring the whole student body (with the exception of Bart and Milhouse). The rest of the tale is a direct parody of Dark Phoenix, as Lisa is capable of flight, surrounded by a dark fiery aura á la Phoenix, and Mr Burns and Smithers disguise themselves as Professor X and Cyclops respectively in order to blackmail Lisa into powering the nuclear plant.
• In the Ugly Betty episode "Petra-Gate" you can see a flashback where Betty and her old friend Trina celebrate their anti-prom by watching Carrie.

[edit] Sequels, remakes and related works

Carrie, along with the novel, have been reproduced and adapted several times. A significantly derided, much-belated sequel was The Rage: Carrie 2, released in 1999. It featured another teenager with telekinetic powers who is eventually revealed to have shared a father with Carrie White. Stephen King reportedly hated the sequel so much that he once pleaded in Entertainment Weekly that Hollywood not make another Carrie sequel.^{[citation needed]} In 2002, a TV movie remake starring Angela Bettis in the titular role was released. The film updated the events of the story to modern-day settings and technology while simultaneously attempting to be more faithful to the book's original structure, storyline, and specific events. The one exception to the latter was that the ending of Carrie in the remake was drastically changed: instead of killing her mother and then herself, the film has Carrie killing her mother, being revived via CPR by Sue Snell and being driven to Florida to hide. This new ending marked a complete divergence from the novel and was a signal that the movie was supposed to have served as a pilot for a Carrie television series, which never materialized. In the new ending, the rescued Carrie vows to help others with similar gifts to her own. Although Angela Bettis' portrayal of Carrie was highly praised, the remade film was ultimately panned by most critics,^[12] who cited it as inferior to the original.

A 1988 Broadway musical, starring Betty Buckley, Linzi Hateley and Darlene Love closed after only 16 previews and five performances. An English pop opera filtered through Greek tragedy, the show was such a notorious turkey it provided the title to Ken Mandelbaum's survey of theatrical disasters, Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops. Clips of the musical may be found on Youtube.

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v • d • e Carrie (by Stephen King)
Novel	Carrie (1974)
Films	Carrie (1976) | The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) | Carrie (2002 film)
Theatre	Carrie: The Musical
Characters	Carrie White | Margaret White | Sue Snell
Related Articles	Telekinesis

v • d • e Films directed by Brian De Palma

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