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Carrie

1976

Brian De Palma

Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt ...

7.0

57,426

Horror. Drama Carrie White, the teenage daughter of a religious fanatic, has her first menstrual period in the school locker-room shower and is so sexually ignorant that she thinks she is bleeding to death. The rest of the girls cruelly taunt her and pelt her with tampons before they are caught by a teacher and punished. Afterwards two of the girls plan to make it up to Carrie each in their own way:– Sue Snell talks her boyfriend Tommy Ross into ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"An absolutely spellbinding horror movie. It's also (and this is what makes it so good) an observant human portrait (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Andrew Collins Empire	"The reason Carrie is still held in such high regard as a horror classic is very simple: it's all in the sheer directorial bravado. De Palma at the top of his game (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Almar Haflidason BBC	"Unlike other examples of the horror genre, there are classic elements of tragedy that lend this gruesome tale a compelling edge"
		Richard Schickel Time	"An exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable"
		Tom Huddleston Time Out	"A truly throat-grabbing horror movie, sporting a handful of pitch-perfect set-pieces"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"'Carrie' did more than thrill, frighten, and captivate me; it sent a volt charge through my system that rewired my imagination, showing me everything that movies could be."
		Richard Eder The New York Times	"De Palma is our only pre-Raphaelite director (...) It's Burne-Jones illustrating Dracula, and the result hovers between being ridiculous and making us smile because it is ridiculous."
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"There is little suspense or dramatic tension; everything plays out like bad melodrama or cheap exploitation"
		Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"'Carrie' is a menstrual joke—a film noir in red (...) De Palma uses tawdriness as a tuning fork"

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