Dripping with style and dread, Brian De Palma’s 1976 classic “Carrie” is an essential horror film. This year’s remake is a timely, poignant high school drama that happens to have horror elements. Adapted from Stephen King’s first novel, the story is the stuff of iconic campfire legend. Raised by a fire-and-brimstone-preaching mother (played with powerful menace by Julianne Moore), Carrie White (the magnetic Chloë Grace Moretz) is a wide-eyed outcast. Unsympathetic toward her pains of puberty, her peers constantly bully her, even throwing tampons at her and calling her names when she panics in the shower room during her first period.
Carrie
Carrie
Carrie
Dripping with style and dread, Brian De Palma’s 1976 classic “Carrie” is an essential horror film. This year’s remake is a timely, poignant high school drama that happens to have horror elements. Adapted from Stephen King’s first novel, the story is the stuff of iconic campfire legend. Raised by a fire-and-brimstone-preaching mother (played with powerful menace by Julianne Moore), Carrie White (the magnetic Chloë Grace Moretz) is a wide-eyed outcast. Unsympathetic toward her pains of puberty, her peers constantly bully her, even throwing tampons at her and calling her names when she panics in the shower room during her first period.