Carrie hallucinates that everyone is mocking her and, in a sudden outburst, she telekinetically seals the exits from the gymnasium and controls a fire hose, which injures several party-goers attempting to escape and sprays the overhead lights, setting the gym on fire. The crowd is left shocked and speechless at the prank. The empty bucket hits the outraged Tommy in the head, and he collapses. Chris and Billy pull the rope attached to the bucket of pig blood, dousing Carrie they then promptly sneak out of the school. Miss Collins spots Sue and, thinking that she is up to no good, throws her out of the prom. As Carrie stands onstage with Tommy, finally beginning to feel accepted by her peers, Sue arrives just in time, realizes Chris and Billy's plan, and begins to intervene. Margaret sees Carrie's telekinetic powers and denounces her as a witch before Carrie leaves with Tommy.ĭuring the prom, Chris and Billy hide under the stage while the other conspirators switch the ballots to ensure that Carrie wins the Prom Queen title. Despite Margaret's protests, Carrie puts on a flattering dress and hairstyle for the prom. Back at home, she begins to discover that she has telekinesis as she shakes off her shyness. Carrie initially thinks the proposition is a prank, but he insists that it is genuine and she reluctantly accepts after Miss Collins consoles her. Meanwhile, Sue Snell, a deeply remorseful classmate, asks her handsome and popular boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to invite Carrie to the prom. Norma, Chris' best friend and a prominent figure in the school's student council regime, plans to rig the Prom Queen election in Carrie's favor to get her on the stage. Plotting vengeance against Carrie, Chris and her boyfriend Billy Nolan break into a local farm and kill pigs to drain their blood into a bucket, which they place above the school's main stage in the gymnasium. However, Carrie's longtime bully, the wealthy and popular Christine "Chris" Hargensen, walks out. She threatens that those who skip the punitive measure will be suspended for three days and barred from the upcoming prom. At school, Collins reprimands Carrie's tormentors, punishing them with a week-long detention during gym class. After arriving home, Margaret tells Carrie that her menstruation was caused by sin, and she locks Carrie in an altar-like "prayer closet" to pray for forgiveness.
Following conversations with Miss Collins and the principal, Carrie is dismissed from school for the day. Carrie's classmates humiliate her by throwing tampons at her while chanting "Plug it up!" until the gym teacher, Miss Collins, intervenes. When Carrie experiences her first period in the school shower, she panics, having never been told about this process. Shy 16-year-old Carrie White, who lives with her fanatically religious mother Margaret, is unpopular at school and often bullied by her peers. The film's prom scene has had a major influence on popular culture and was ranked eighth on Bravo 's 2004 program The 100 Scariest Movie Moments. It was ranked 15th on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies, and 46th on the American Film Institute list AFI's 100 Years.100 Thrills. In 2008, Carrie was ranked 86th on Empire's list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.
The film has significantly influenced popular culture, with several publications regarding it as one of the greatest horror films ever made.
Critics and audience members alike widely cite it as the best adaptation of the novel amongst the numerous films and television shows based on the character, as well as one of the best films based on King's publications. It received two nominations at the 49th Academy Awards: Best Actress (for Spacek) and Best Supporting Actress (for Laurie). Theatrically released on November 3, 1976, by United Artists, Carrie became critically and commercially successful, grossing over $33.8 million against its $1.8 million budget. It is the first of more than 100 film and television productions adapted from, or based on, the published works of King. De Palma was intrigued by the story and pushed for the studio to direct it while Spacek was encouraged by her husband to audition. The film was based on King's first novel by the same name. It is the first film in the Carrie franchise. Soles, Betty Buckley, and John Travolta in supporting roles. The film also features Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, William Katt, P. The film stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy 16-year-old who is consistently mocked and bullied at school. Cohen, adapted from Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name. $33.8 million (United States and Canada) Ĭarrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film directed by Brian De Palma from a screenplay written by Lawrence D.
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