Carrie (1976) -🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review

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[@bluelagoon1980]

It's made clearer in the book, but Sue Snell genuinely felt awful and wanted to make it up to her. And Tommy genuinely started to fall for her during the dance.

[@hotflesh66]

@@bluelagoon1980 I don’t think Tommy was falling for Carrie but he was genuinely surprised how good a time he was having with the most unpopular girl in school. #DePalma 1970s: Sisters, The Fury, The Untouchables.

[@Nemesis7293]

The film makes it perfectly clear. To everybody except KZbin reactors.

[@libertarianvoter]

​@@Nemesis7293 THANK. YOU. I don't know how much clearer it could be. My assumption is that it's the conspiracy theory mindset where people always think that nothing is as it seems so that they can feel superior if there's ever a plot twist.

[@ComicPhreak]

​@@Nemesis7293Right? I mean how can you miss the obvious.

[@ericwalker8636]

​@libertarianvoter I was going to say it's cynicism but I think your assumption is more accurate.

[@RobertHamilton-j6h]

The crowd wasn't laughing at her. Everyone but a handful that were in on the "prank" thought it was horrible. Carrie just kept hearing her mother's voice and thought they were all laughing. She snapped.

[@joshfacio9379]

yup. youd think that people would get it with the whole kaleidascope effect plus they literally had just shown those same folks with horrified looks on their faces, and of course the moms saying theyre all gonna laugh at you repeated acouple times.

[@erikbjelke4411]

Carrie had a full psychotic break. Disconnecting completely from reality because she couldn't handle it anymore.

[@chesteradams7423]

@@joshfacio9379 You'd think you would get out of your mom's basement every once in a while.

[@samanthanickson6478]

@@chesteradams7423nooo, it’s just that people don’t really get the level of paranoia and stress that carrie is under. so that when she finally decides to have fun and rebels against her crazy af mom, she finds that she was actually telling her the truth? that’s just way too much for a 16-18 year old to handle. the change in perception, the kaleidoscope vision, is subtle. i guess too subtle for some to get. i would have maybe slanted the camera a bit too, to emphasize the skewed thought for the audience.

[@richardb6260]

Tommy and Sue were actually trying to do something nice for Carrie. Chris planned to ruin it on her own. There's a moment during detention when Sue clearly has had enough of Chris when she confronted the PE teacher.

[@Stuck-In-The-Nostalgia]

"Shut up,Chris.Just shut up!!!".

[@jrasicmark1]

@@Stuck-In-The-Nostalgia Well, in the movie, maybe that was meant to be proof to the audience that Tommy and Sue weren't involved, but i n real life and in a court of law, that wouldn't have proved anything but that Sue was sick of Chris' behavior in that one moment. I didn't think that was clear at all.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@jrasicmark1 You don't have to prove you weren't involved in a court of law (at least in the country they're in); they have to prove you were. And the discussion is about signals to the audience anyway.

[@jrasicmark1]

@@HuntingViolets I wasn't suggesting they would have to prove anything in a court of law. I just meant that, if it had been a court case, they would have needed much clearer evidence. And yes, we are talking about signals to the audience, but, IMHO, the signals in the movie on what Tommy and Sue were trying to do just wasn't clear to the audience at all. And I've seen several reactors who were just as confused. I mean, what high school girl is going to risk losing her boyfriend by offering him up to another girl (even temporarily), and what boyfriend would feel comfortable going along with that, unless he was actually attracted to Carrie?

[@storyspinner70]

"Where are your parents?" lmaoooo We Gen Xers saw our parents at supper and in the morning and that was about it. Amazing reaction to a wonderful film!

[@edwardthompson4600]

I find it extremely alarming that so many reactors miss that Sue and Tommy were being genuine, even though it's clearly explained in the film.

[@Takeshi357]

If it's so clear then why do people keep missing it?

[@vilefly]

@@Takeshi357 Nihilism is more rampant these days.

[@edwardthompson4600]

Well, I'm not sure. There's an entire scene establishing that Sue and Tommy were trying to do something nice. And at NO point was there any indication that Sue or Tommy were attempting to participate in the prom incident.@Takeshi357

[@Takeshi357]

@@edwardthompson4600 Well I could figure out _that_ part. Sue and Chris pretty much don't interact after the detention scene so the part of them having no knowledge of the blood bucket thing _was_ clear. But that didn't stop me from thinking her and Tommy didn't have their own thing going. It wasn't until they actually got to the prom I was like "oh wait I think he's actually being sincere".

[@JCWiley2300]

When I first started watching these reactions, I felt the same way. Since then I've kind of..evolved a little? on the subject. Here are a few mitigating factors: In the book, basically the whole final third was focused on the legal inquest after prom night, and the investigators assumed that Sue Snell was implicated in the pig blood incident too. Of course that's the book's narrative, and it was made clear to the reader that Sue was well-intentioned if overly idealistic. But maybe the point was to show that on the surface, Sue looked guilty. Second, I view these reactions through the lens of my own experience, which was seeing this movie for the first time when I was like 9, and it was perfectly clear to me too that Sue and Tommy were not involved, but maybe it was more ambiguous to other viewers? I mean there is a fair amount unspoken between Tommy and Sue about their plan. To me it was pretty clear that Sue was starting to atone for her part in the tampon hazing incident when she told Chris to "just shut up", but maybe other viewers don't catch the significance of this. And finally, modern horror movies are a little more sort of binary in their descriptions of "good" vs "evil", and malevolent actors vs benevolent ones, and it would make sense that they have in a way trained modern viewers to see plotlines this way. Clearly defined, no ambiguity, screeching devils vs innocent beauties. I do remain somewhat unimpressed that modern viewers don't seem to have much taste for nuance in their horror diets, and I think most KZbin reactors bear that out. A lot of them are not particularly analytical, even though they kind of go through the motions of picking movies apart, and going on and on about what the movie is doing and "saying." End of long, grumpy Gen-X rant.

[@aaronmccracken7351]

Gonna have to change your sign to "HE HE DIRTYPILLOWS"

[@adriennerobinson8984]

Tommy and Sue were never in on the prank, Sue was the only one that felt bad about what they did so she wanted to make it up to her and Tommy was truly genuine to Carrie at the prom and maybe he started to like her for real even though he was dating Sue. The prank was Chris's idea and not everybody was laughing at her at the prom, Carrie just imagined everybody was.

[@Dunybrook]

It's only on KZbin that I've recently seen people having problems understanding this when it's always seemed glaringly obvious. I wonder if people these days just don't pick up on clues the same way because movies are written less subtly these days.

[@StCerberusEngel]

I can't begin to say how much I love Sissy Spacek in this. This whole movie feels real as hell when you grow up a target. I know well that blinding rage. Thankfully I had some people in my corner, despite not usually feeling like it at the time, and I learned to stand up for myself. The tragedy of this movie is that Carrie never had a chance, and there's only so much a human being can take. Great anger is more destructive than the sword. Side note: that's a Saint Sebastian statue.

[@jenniferdarling6]

Agree. I think to us who were relentlessly bullied by normies and teachers this movie hits hard af 😢 Also in the tv show Lost there's a little St Sebastion shout out with that pose attached to a Carrie book reference ❤

[@spacedinosaur8733]

“Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!” ― H. Beam Piper, Space Viking

[@jasonsbrain2]

This movie came out in 1976. Depending on where you were living in the country at the time, your teacher could definitely have gotten away with slapping you in school. Corporal punishment used to be quite common in schools and at home in general, but gradually began to be phased out as the 1970s progressed. it was definitely live and well in Mobile, Alabama in 1975. I'm pretty sure today's teachers long for the days when they could get away with slapping an obnoxious student in front of everyone...

[@frederickseltzerjr2170]

This was Sissy Spacek's first movie role and she was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. She would eventually win her Oscar for "Coal Miner's Daughter." This was for John Travolta before "Saturday Night Fever" and he was on the ABC show "Welcome Back, Kotter" when he filmed this. William Katt (Tommy) would later star for a couple of seasons on the show "The Greatest AMerican Hero" ... Piper Laurie (Margaret White) was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress

[@johnmoreland6089]

This was pretty legit how it was in the 70s, but filtered thru De Palma's trademark satirical bent. He's also noted for using split screen and split diopter shots. Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie got well-deserved Oscar nominations for their terrific performamces. Also, appropriate you mentioned Star Wars, as Lucas and De Palma conducted joint casting sessions for Carrie and Star Wars with everyone auditioning for both movies, except for Spacek, who was only auditioning for Carrie.

[@djdavejordan6498]

She was trying to be nice, because she genuinely felt bad for the way they treated Carrie.

[@hdhdhhehe6709]

That’s what makes it so good. Carrie assumes everyone was in on it, but they were all reacting with schadenFreude. It’s a story about the perils of conformity and paying a price for casual cruelty. Of course Carrie is destroyed by her own wrath as well. It’s a very well constructed tragedy.

[@BossDon456]

Sue and Tommy being genuinely nice is pretty obvious.

[@Blazingstoke]

Fun bit of trivia: _Carrie_ and _Star Wars_ (1977) were casting at the same time, so they drew from the same pool of actors. There's definitely screen tests online of William Katt (Tommy Ross) auditioning for Luke Skywalker, and I think there's something of Sissy Spacek auditioning for Princess Leia as well.

[@strangebiped]

That's "FAR OUT", Man!

[@erauprcwa]

Sissy Spacek says in the dvd commentary documentary, she went in with the purpose of auditioning for this film. She dressed up for the role of Carrie. Her husband Jack Fisk was working on the film.

[@zydration3538]

Long debunked.

[@erauprcwa]

@@zydration3538 They say it in the dvd documentary what they did for auditions. However, Spacek auditioned JUST for the film "Carrie"

[@thoso1973]

Carrie Fisher auditioned for both roles with both directors in the same room. She described it in one of her books. So that part is definitely true.

[@thomholbrook7286]

Don't think you noticed but one of Carrie's classmates was played by Edie McClurg who also was the school secretary in Ferris Bueller ("He's a righteous dude!") and the rental car lady in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles ("You're f***ed.").

[@joshfacio9379]

dont forget chastety pariah in elvira mistress of the dark!

[@davidbennett1357]

Don't think they noticed that Chriss was played by the woman who played Officer Lewis in Robocop

[@LuvTadnDixie]

Sissy Spacek (Carrie) and Piper Laurie (the Mom) were both nominated for Academy Awards for this movie.

[@estoy1001]

The book was written in epistolary format, a bit like Dracula. Stephen King was unhappy with it, so he tossed it in the trash. His wife Tabitha resurrected it from the trash, read it, and told him he needed to publish it. He listened to her, and the rest is history. Also, that wasn't a Jesus in the closet (Matthew 6:6 - Enter into your closet and pray) but was St. Sebastian (check him out). You did watch Kill Bill, so if you recall Elle walking down the hallway in her nurse outfit with all the split screens between Kiddo and her, that was a nod to Brian DePalma.

[@shercahn]

I remember reading it in Jr High or High School and thinking it was real because of all the footnotes and "additions".

[@albertjimeno5315]

The split screens feel appropriately psychedelic.

[@joshfacio9379]

i remember as a kid how the split screen seemed so 70s cheese, and maybe it is, but now it just screams stylish. i love how the panels slide. i wonder how hard that was to do back then. depalma def had a eye for visual flair. almost has a dario argenta susperia vibe with the red/orange gel lighting. i miss that concert smoky look, like old rock concerts, Heart 70s shows etc.

[@joshfacio9379]

@@shercahn right!? like the investigations by the goverment and drs and newspapers excerpts.

[@LiirThropp2687]

I always considered this movie to more tragic than scary. Poor Carrie. Prom was the first time she ever got to be happy or enjoy anything. And even that got ruined. Her mom was psychotic and never let her have friends or even leave the house to play outside. Just 24/7 misery. She finally snapped.

[@james.b.mcgill]

I bought a mandolin. As soon as I opened it up and saw how it worked, I boxed it up, put it in the cupboard, and ordered some cut-proof gloves on Amazon. Didn't open it back up until the gloves arrived.

[@RaptorNX01]

I looked it up to be sure i knew what it was and the fact that a bunch of the images show the user wearing chainmesh gloves, the kind attached to shark bite suits, says alot. lol

[@joshfacio9379]

my ma used to cook alot and we'd use it and theres nothing worse than a wet potatoe your slicing and your finger tips going over the blade so you can see deep into your fingers layers. then that delayed special pain that would come and itd take forever to heal. use a dish towel bunched up to cover the guard guys!

[@nicolesaunders2964]

Fun fact: PJ Soles played Norma (the girl with the red cap) she also was in the 1978 version of Halloween

[@CathleenMJennings80]

John Travolta was the break-out star of a tv show called Welcome Back Kotter (1975 -79) and, DURING that show, John filmed The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, this, SN Fever, and Grease. He was ENORMOUSLY popular but stayed on the show (but not as a weekly regular) until it ended. I've recently really gotten to appreciate him - he could have left Kotter but didn't and he went through a humiliating low of quality movies in the 80s/90s - but he keeps making come backs! And, he's lost so many dear to him (a girlfriend (Diana Hyland), his wife, (Kelly Preston), Olivia Newton John, and Kirsty Alley all died of cancer - and his son died as a teen, as well).

[@michaeldavis2001]

Sue and Tommy were NOT in on the prom plot. Tommy is killed when the bucket breaks his neck. In the book, the teacher drags Sue out of the hall, so is outside when the school burns down. The kids laughing is mainly in Carrie's head. Brian DePalma is major fan of Hitchcock. Carrie has been remade twice, but neither the remakes or the sequel are as good as the original.

[@clay7746]

Fun fact, in 1977 when Carrie was in the theater the promotional tag line said ‘absolutely no one will be admitted during the last 10 minutes’ of the film.

[@endless013]

Tommy and Sue were actually being nice they weren't in on the prank at all, and it's not at all explained but Tommy died not knocked out and if I remember correctly in the book Carry does vastly more damage, town wide damage.

[@thebaxman4459]

One of my favorite movies, even though it's a tragedy. I was bullied, verbally abused, ridiculed and called names during my school years and I can relate to Carrie's emotional hurt.

[@bigj5880]

Brian de Palma.... Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlitos way, get it together ladies lol

[@jessediaz1293]

I know right 😂 bitchez be trippin’.

[@lynetteoliva1256]

@@bigj5880 I've seen all 3. The one I've watched the most is SCARFACE.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@lynetteoliva1256 I saw the original Hawks' _Scarface_ but not the remake.

[@martinholt8168]

My mother made it through this movie without a hitch, right up until the ending when Carrie grabbed Sue from the grave. My mother spent the rest of the night with the lights on.

[@joshfacio9379]

btw as much as i felt sorry for carrie i felt so touched with her gym teachers concern for her. especially after carrie tells her teacher about tommy asking her to prom and shes trying to show carrie shes beautiful and has worth while showing herself in the mirror, theres a closeup slowly of the poor teachers face that screams shes scared and truly touched for carrie, and she touches her hand gently to her mouth while you can see concern: both to see how bad carries been treated by everybody all her life but also worrying about what the girls could be planning... truly a greatly touching scene well acted.

[@TheMormonSorceress]

The book and movie are perfect examples of this African proverb "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth"

[@christopherb501]

From where, precisely?

[@MakotoKinoSailorJupiter2020]

Literally 😂

[@TheMormonSorceress]

@@christopherb501 They never said witch one, but I do like it.

[@janna2245]

Carrie isn't a horror film for me: Its a tragedy

[@MrEvenStranger]

Had the privilege of meeting Sissy Spacek a few years ago - such a nice person, and a great actor.

[@garysmith3037]

Pippin just out there showing everyone his dirty beans.

[@cliffordwaterton3543]

Yeah I guess I'm a 70s school survivor - in the UK teacher's had pretty much free license to physically (and mentally) assault kids up until the early 80s. do I feel it did me any harm? not really, did it do me any good? no. There was a film made in 1970 in the UK by a guy called Ken Loach (renowned for dealing with gritty social issues) called 'Kes'. It looks more like a documentary than a dramatisation but anyone watching that film today would probably want to call the cops - You really wouldn't believe it but its a reasonable representation of an inner city school of the time. I've yet to see a movie based on the work of Stephen King which was anywhere near as scary as the book, including 'the Shining' which I loved as a work in its own right but the book is far more disturbing.

[@cgbleak]

I'm old enough to have seen this movie in a theater. With that final shock scare, the entire audience screamed and LEVITATED.

[@Spindler2007]

That St Sebastian statue in the prayer closet still gives me the creeps especially it's glowing eyes.

[@nigelprince1758]

I grew up in the 90's and I saw my French teacher punch a kid in the back and my Science teacher break a meter ruler over a kids shoulder ... only one of them was fired, the French teacher was still teaching years after I left school.

[@JustSUMMReactions]

😨😨😨

[@USCFlash]

Corporal punishment is actually still very much allowed in school these days. It is still legal in 18 states in public schools and all but three states, in private schools. In 2017-18, public schools physically disciplined a total of 69,492 students at least once - down from 92,479 kids in 2015-16. Some states allow kids and parents to choose corporal punishment over a suspension and many choose it instead of suspension.

[@maddwitch]

10:40 I knew a girl in HS who would send messages to her boyfriend's beeper and then pretend to find them later, so that she could accuse him of cheating on her and set off a fight. 19:26 If you watch the locker room scene again, you see a look of realization dawning, and regret, on Sue's face after the gym teacher slaps Carrie and she's still freaking out. I think that Sue did get caught up with the mob and didn't think about how scary it might be for Carrie, not knowing anything about periods. Seeing Carrie's mom in her house that day probably helped bring it home for her how awful things must be for Carrie. I think she thought that she could give Carrie this one good, normal experience. There is a scene where Sue's friend is asking her about Tommy taking Carrie to the prom, which is how Chris ends up finding out about it, and Sue telling her friend that she's cool with it. That's the girl who's being friendly with Carrie at the prom and was right up front, looking shocked and horrified, when the pig's blood dropped. 20:24 In the book, there were two galvanized steel buckets, the second bucket didn't tip out before it fell, hitting Tommy while it was still about half full, cracking his skull and killing him instantly. 22:14 Not really. Some people consider pink a shade of red, and Carrie's mom was calling it red, because she associates the color with lust, sin, and the devil. The crowd all laughing wasn't real. You can see that, before Carrie hears her mom's voice, only a handful of people are actually shown laughing at her. Essentially Chris' friends, who were in on the prank. Everyone else is just kind of shocked and horrified. The gym teacher laughing at her too is kind of a giveaway that it's all in Carrie's head. 25:50 In the book, Carrie took out half the town on her way home.

[@noquarterracing3637]

and intentionally stops Mom's heart, but the movie "Jesus Christ Pose" is a powerful image.

[@Thewingkongexchange]

Still one of the best jump scares in cinema! De Palma's style also gives the film a unique, dream/nightmare feel.

[@MrDportjoe]

Saw this movie at Ft Sill 1977 after basic training. The cllutching hand scene at end resulted in an NFL lineman sized artilleryman jUmping up and screaming 'you do NOT do that to me! I'm too big and bad to scared out of my mind but you did that to me you mother fers!!" He was neatly out of control for like four minutes outside the theatre cursing the movie makers to hell for how scared he was.

[@gabrielgomes2302]

The movie is great, but the deaths of the 2013 ramake have no comparison, they are more elaborate and more violent, and that's what we horror lovers like ❤

[@sagaofsarahrose]

"I feel like we're about to watch a different movie" "I'm ok with that" GODS I love you

[@jbwade5676]

Poor Carrie😢😢😢😢😢

[@stevemccullagh36]

I have no idea how you both completely misread Sue and Tommy. Never seen that before.

[@paintedjaguar]

I've seen that in almost every reaction to "Carrie" that anyone has done. No, I don't know why, it's some kind of generational thing.

[@o.b.7217]

Thank God, I read this first. Saves me the time and the anger.

[@rayhume1971]

I've seen a couple of other reactors that were suspicious of the two of them, and I also don't get it. They don't do or say anything that would imply it. Of course, I also don't understand why people think Damien was evil and not just a victim of hysteria and abuse. So, you know.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

I've seen reactors who not only didn't get Sue and Tommy, but actually thought the gym teacher was laughing at Carrie at the prom.

[@DonMachado]

@@rayhume1971 Damien was born of a Jackal. He didn't seem to be the least upset when his nanny hung herself, and he did try to kill his adopted mother, causing her to fall from the 2nd floor landing. Pretty evil for a toddler. 🙃

[@greygorthegoateedgeek5350]

After seeing this film so many times, I read the book for the first time last week. So many more died in the book, the town was laid to rest, and Sue Snell and her boyfriend were completely sincere in wanting Carrie to enjoy the prom. The meta coverage in the book was the investigations that took place after the incident and the fear it could happen again.

[@footofjuniper8212]

The original script for Friday the 13th didn't have Jason popping out of the water at the end. They threw it in because they wanted a last-minute jump scare like this movie. So Carrie is pretty much responsible for launching the slasher craze of the 80s.

[@CaturdayNite]

Surprising when I revisited this one, Edie McClurg as one of the kids. I always remember her from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles as well as the Elvira Mistress of the Dark film where she played Chastity Pariah. :)

[@DBillings68]

Ed Rooney's secretary from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

[@CaturdayNite]

@DBillings68 i think we should co sider Ferris a sequel. That she miraculously survived and moved to Chicago. 😀

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

@@DBillings68 She was also in Cheech & Chongs Next Movie 1980

[@redflump]

Apparently the small "Jesus" figure with the arrows is a Christian Martyr St.Sebastian - Carrie's mother dying in the same pose with the knives at the end

[@michaelcoffey1991]

Criminally underrated horror, was glad you finally saw it and liked it

[@chrisbiebel6205]

The weird pose of the mother when she died mimics the statue in the closet. That's why it looked to weird.

[@2apocalypsex]

If you don't know, the statue in the closet is not of Jesus, it's Saint Sebastian Sebastian is a popular male saint, especially today among athletes. In medieval times, he was regarded as a saint with a special ability to intercede to protect from plague.

[@2apocalypsex]

It seems that I always point this out when I watch someone react to Carrie, but the small statue in Carrie's room is not Jesus, it is Saint Sebastian. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though this did not kill him. He was, according to tradition, rescued and healed by Irene of Rome, which became a popular subject in 17th-century painting. In all versions of the story, shortly after his recovery he went to Diocletian to warn him about his sins, and as a result was clubbed to death.

[@godmagnus]

Tommy and Sue were genuine. Thought that was pretty clear

[@Blazingstoke]

Other fun bit of trivia: Betty Buckley, who played the gym teacher, went on to play Carrie's mom in the infamous Broadway musical in 1988. (While her scenes were generally well-received, the show was such a tremendous flop it closed after about 3 performances. Buckley would continue to perform some of the music in concert from time to time, though.)

[@jovindsouza3407]

@@Blazingstoke it was actually 5 performances over 3 days. Real pity, there was some real love and care put into it. Linzi Hateley (who played Carrie) never had another role on Broadway afterwards, but she did have some success on the West End. There's a story of her bursting into tears during the final bows, and Betty Buckley hugged her and told her to keep her head up high because none of it was her fault.

[@grifirnyc]

My favorite part of this was when you commented early that you wanted the hand to come up from the grave, because it shows how much that has been done since then. When I first saw Carrie back in the 1980s, I had read the book, but that ending isn't in there, so the hand popping up gave me one of the biggest scares I'd ever had.

[@kinokind293]

I think the hand reaching from the grave was first done in Carrie. It really was Sissy Spacek in a box under the rubble, reaching up. DePalma is a big Hitchcock fan and borrows from his playbook of cinematography. Piper Laurie (who died last year, at 91) was nominated for an Oscar for this.

[@joshfacio9379]

yup and that scene inspired friday the 13th.

[@MegaWicked89]

26:39 Fun Fact: Priscilla Pointer (Mrs. Snell) and Amy Irving (Sue Snell) are actually mother and daughter in real life.

[@ennuieffect]

Stephen King pretty much wrote the book on psychopath/sociopath bullies, pun intended. They’re always particularly cruel characters, as seen in the films Carrie, IT, Stand By Me (based on his novella, The Body), Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Sometimes They Come Back, and Christine. IT (the novel), in my opinion has some of the most violent and sadistic bullies, and the recent films exposes the cruelty pretty well.

[@roadrunner3100]

Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie (who played her mom) were both nominated for an Oscar for this movie.

[@samanthawhatshername2939]

You ladies would be a hoot to watch movies with!!!! Love this film. The best Carrie film EVER!

[@robertshields4160]

7:18 The English teacher is Sydney Lassick. He also played Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[@guitarman8462]

This was his first novel. In the book : it's 2 buckets of blood - Tommy dies - Carrie ends up blowing up all the fire hydrants in the streets so the firemen can't put out the fire - kills her mother by stopping her heart.

[@LizardBrainMinerals]

She also destroys everything she comes across on her way home.

[@guitarman8462]

@@LizardBrainMinerals yup , houses , killing people along the way

[@garysmith3037]

Wasn't it also large rocks or asteroids raining down on the house at the end?

[@guitarman8462]

@@garysmith3037 yup , but the director left that out bc I think he said it was hard to shoot during those yrs or bc of the $$$.

[@davidbennett1357]

@@garysmith3037 in the novel it was near the beginning, in reference to a very early childhood memory of Carrie's, one of those times that Carrie's mom went even crazier than normal....

[@carleakins2153]

My mom had a big time crush on William Katt (Tommy) when this came out. And who can blame her? He's cute, and his hair was fabulous. The prom sequence is such a classic, with its bombastic style and editing. I wish more modern movies had this much personality to them.

[@dnish6673]

Well he was the Greatest American hero.

[@ynz3713]

Brian De Palma directed Scarface among others. Also fun fact Stephen kings wife is responsible for his career because he initially threw the writing of if first book(Carrie) away but she got it out of the trash and encouraged him to try and get it published.

[@EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie both got Oscar nominations for their roles. For Piper Laurie, it was her first film in fifteen years.

[@laurakali6522]

Most of us girls had crushes on Tommy. He is the son of the actress (Barbara Hale) who played Perry Mason’s assistant in Perry Mason mysteries. When they brought the show back in the 80s he was in it. He also was in a short lived show called The Greatest American Hero.

[@staciemiller7465]

Best theme song ever!

[@laurakali6522]

@@staciemiller7465 and George Costanza’s version from Seinfeld.

[@joshfacio9379]

i loved him in the movie House

[@lynetteoliva1256]

I loved THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO.

[@christopherb501]

That look do anything for dudes?

[@KevinShipe-tr2uk]

Piper Laurie was away from Movies for 15 years before she did Carrie. 1961 she was Paul Newmans lover in The Hustler

[@pillboss1987]

My parents went to high school in the 70’s, my mom got whooped with a paddle by my dad’s grandma, who was a teacher. The paddle was made by my dad in woodshop.

[@JustSUMMReactions]

Oh damn! That's wild!

[@guitarman8462]

The idea for the mother to have that evil smile when she was hanging stabbed to death. That was the idea of the actress who played the mother . She said " Wouldn't it be better while I'm hanging stabbed to have that smile ? " .

[@monicawism]

Please react to "Christine." It's another Steven King movie based on one of his novels.

[@FlagtopProductions]

Stephen King doesn't get enough credit for being somewhat ahead of the curve in making sort of backdoor X-Men movies with characters like Carrie, Danny Torrence in The Shining, and Charlie McGee in Firestarter.

[@TBirum1]

I would add to that list John Coffe (The Green Mile) And Johnny Smith from the book (The Dead Zone) Both of which came out Long Before the MCU They weren’t “Heroes” But many of those Characters Existed in the same “Universe” as some of those Characters are referenced in those books. Most King’s Books take place either in the Same Town or in the Same Region of Maine.

[@bertneto9618]

X-men were written before King's i believe..Maybe Stan Lee's X-men should be credited for these kind of kings books.

[@edwardsighamony]

There's a novel called Slan by A. E Van Vogt in the 40s that presages the X-men.

[@zydration3538]

Probably because X Men predates his novels. Wow

[@mostaley5049]

Dude y’all had me cracking up, funniest scary movie reaction ever. All the slapping. 😂😂 👏👏

[@Heffro2010]

Imagine if they could get Sissy, John, Nancy, PH soles and Amy to do a commentary track for the BluRay of this.

[@finster1968]

During the gym scene when the girls are getting berated by Miss Collins, you will see that Sue was looking the most remorseful. She was tearing up a bit. The other girls just looked annoyed. Especially Chris and Norma. So this was the subtle hint that Sue’s intentions for Carrie were pure.

[@fabian4ever69]

Both Carrie and her Mom...Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie were nominated for Oscars in 1976.

[@strangebiped]

As a 're-watch' from my "olden days" of movies,...I was surprised at how MANY young actors were in this movie WHO BECAME more FAMOUS, or Popular, in other movies as time moved ahead. You TWO LADIES were really good at REVIEWING this Story. Thanks.

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

Spacek was an absolute revelation in this film. The book came out when I was 12. It and her portrayal left a footprint on my soul that is indelible. No interest in any remakes. We don't need another one. We have Spacek and Laurie. Long live Spacek. RIP Laurie.

[@halcyonlightvibes2023]

I've seen many reactors react to this film, and it still fascinates me that most think Tommy and Sue were in on it. I saw the film when it first came out in 1976, and I never thought that. Of course, I was still young and not jaded yet 😎 Nice reaction!

[@tracymagaha1154]

I'm actually amazed how Carrie miss the candles rolling down the stairs after her mother stabbed. her.

[@monsterkhan3414]

Carrie (1976) is a masterpiece. Great reaction! If you two are looking for something a little more light hearted, you should react to "On Golden Pond" (1981), it's a great movie.

[@mckeldin1961]

Terrific reaction! Don't worry that you misconstrued Sue's motives... DePalma left it slightly ambiguous until the actual moment (on rewatch you can tell from Amy Irving's performance that Sue felt awful and genuinely was trying to help Carrie). Also kudos on catching the movie's satiric edge -- DePalma (and Piper Laurie -- Carrie's mom) looked at it as a black comedy. The dysfunction of the characters is slightly exaggerated but still recognizable to anyone who went to high school in the 1970s. I was bullied quite a lot in HS, and when this was released (I was a sophomore) this movie was like a revenge fantasy for me! The movie has only gotten better with multiple viewings... it's my second favorite King adaptation (after The Shining).

[@dnish6673]

I like Carrie. The Shining is fine except it’s a bad adaptation of the novel. But Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, Stand By Me, Misery, The Mist are better than Carrie. And Christine wasn’t bad either.

[@mckeldin1961]

@@dnish6673 To each his own. 😊

[@RETNASCANZ]

John Travolta was known for his role on the t.v. sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter" and the made for t.v. movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" before he made it big in movies.

[@msmilder25]

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) is my favorite Sissy Spacek film...the biopic about country music legend Loretta Lynn, who passed away at 90 back in 2022.

[@guitarman8462]

P . S - The actress who played ' Carrie ' wanted to do most or all of her stunts. At the end the hand that pops up from the grave is her hand . 🤚

[@deirdrestatham5730]

I've read that Sissy Spacek was very aware of and concerned about continuity for the blood so she slept in full blood makeup like a statue with her arms out. She figured this way they wouldn't have issues between takes and using different angles of shots through multiple days of shooting. The blood would be the same throughout shooting. lol

[@guitarman8462]

@deirdrestatham5730 I saw the making of it , they didn't use real blood . Although they did say after everyone had roasted 🐖 🐷.

[@deirdrestatham5730]

@@guitarman8462 I know they didn’t use real blood. I meant the blood makeup. Sissy Spacek slept in the makeup so it would match up continuity-wise in terms of splatter patterns.

[@guitarman8462]

@@deirdrestatham5730 I see , my mistake . 👍

[@deirdrestatham5730]

@@guitarman8462 S’all good. 👍🏽

[@grifirnyc]

also, re: Hat Girl and Glasses Girl - if you didn't recognize her, Glasses Girl was Edie McClurg, who you would have seen in a number of things over the years, one of the most memorable being the school secretary in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. And while she's best known for comedy, two of her less funny credits include this and Natural Born Klller

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks to Emily, Claire and Pippin! 😱 I've loved this one since I saw it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too young. Of course, as y'all noticed, it's directed by the great Brian De Palma. Be sure to check out DRESSED TO KILL (1980) by him. It's been compared to PSYCHO (1960), but it has its own charms, as well.

[@Serai3]

One of the biggest shifts from the book to the movie was the casting of Sissy Spacek. She plays Carrie as a shy, delicate girl, isolated by her mother but basically a decent person. That is not Carrie in the book. There, Carrie is a seething, bitter girl, full of dark thoughts and fantasies of vengeance against everyone. Her mother has filled her with her lunacy, and Carrie sees everything through the filter of Margaret's religious obsessions. She is convinced everyone except her mama and herself are going to hell, and the world will end in a rain of blood and fire. All of that bullying, therefore, is much more understandable even if it is cruel and childish. Rather than being a naive waif, Carrie is a monster-in-training, and it's only the constant battering that makes her at all sympathetic, and even then it's the sympathy you might feel for a dog that bites everyone because it's been hit so often - you feel sorry for it but you're not inclined to try and get near it. But how do you make a film about someone like that? It could never be sustained because the audience would not be on her side. So they changed her into the girl you see in the film, and it works to get us on her side, but it also has the effect of making the bullying seem to come out of nowhere, for no reason. By the way, the fact that Sue and Tommy were trying to be nice was not a surprise to anyone seeing this when it came out, because pretty much everyone in the audience had read the book. It was King's first, and it hit like an explosion in the publishing industry. Nobody had ever read anything like it - a horror story about ordinary kids in an ordinary place, filled with ordinary things. Up til then, horror had been rather an exotic genre and rarely taken seriously. King changed all that; it's hard to put across to anyone looking at him and his incredibly long career just how unexpected and amazing this book, and his particular voice, really were. He created a new way of writing horror, and took off like a rocket from the very first page. (The book is definitely worth reading, by the way. It's a lot darker and more tragic than the film, which had to be lightened in order to tell the story, which was much more internal in the book. It's very engaging and not a long read, so I highly recommend you give it a read.)

[@MrDman21]

I like how Pippen is in the conversation with them 😂

[@hanonondricek411]

Nowadays everyone knows to be prepared for a final jumpscare, but when Carrie came out, the fake ending jumpscare was not a thing directors did. Audiences trusted that happy music was leading directly to the credits and were _completely_ unprepared for the hand from the grave and it traumatized many moviegoers for generations. In fact, Carrie might have invented the finale scare as it pre-dates Friday the 13th doing a similar fake out several years later.

[@johncampbell756]

She killed the mom in the same position and wounds as creepy Jesus. This was the first Stephen King novel. It is written as a compilation of articles and interviews and newspaper clippings.

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

That's interesting. Dracula is also written that way.

[@johncampbell756]

@@jacquelinecallejas1390 I never read Dracula.

[@kristopherwood7521]

Did you notice the car rental clerk from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with the big glasses on in Carrie?

[@cynfan]

"glasses girl" is Edie McClurg. She was in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. She's mostly known for Mrs. Poole on Valerie's Family/Hogans.

[@RaptorNX01]

I saw the movie for the first time as a kid and the "they're gonna laugh at you", specifically the way the woman says the line, has been burned into my brain. I always felt bad for tommy. I had caught on that it was all genuine even then, and him silently yelling "what the hell is this" solidified it. I hadn't caught on that because carrie is having a mental break, when she's seeing the people laughing, even the teacher who had stood up for her, its all in her head and not really happening.

[@p.d.stanhope7088]

Piper Laurie (Carrie's mom) in a movie is always a treat. Check her out in The Hustler with Paul Newman. 😁

[@RussellCHall]

Oh thank gosh someone said it, I only knew Piper from Twin Peaks (where Lynch basically told her to overact like she was in a nighttime soap) until I saw the Hustler where she gives such a tender performance that holds it own with Newman & George C Scott.

[@duncancurtis5108]

The red car going backwards down the road😅😅

[@staciemiller7465]

That figure is actually not Jesus, but Saint Sebastian, who was tied to a tree and shot with arrows by Romans.

[@alib6615]

Fun facts!!! 1) The actress playing Sue's mom is her actual mom. Sue was played by the amazing Amy Irving and her mom was played by her mom, and actress, Priscilla Pointer. 2) Nancy Allen who played the main bully, Chris Hargenson, ended up dating and marrying the director, Brian De Palma. They were married for five years and worked on three more movies together during their marriage. 3) When Norma (red hat girl) was hit by the firehose in the prom scene, the actress P.J. Soles actually got injured (ruptured ear drum). 4) This was Sissy Spacek's first major role and she met her husband (art director, Jack Fisk) on this set and they are still married to this day. Loved the reaction and just adore this movie. I probably watched it too young, but whatever. Still love it and the book.

[@cpussandfudgy]

Brian DePalma is the king of “choices”. There are a least 3 “what the fuck was that” scenes in all of his movies.

[@thoso1973]

Sisters and Obsession were solid early entries, but also a bit rough de Palma. Carrie was his first masterpiece and the one where his trademark editing and sound design style really shines.

[@Beardo2517]

The shot of the curtains catching on fire behind Carrie is one of the best shots ever in a movie

[@joshfacio9379]

hell ya it is! oddly enough with all the new tech and fx the newer versions cant match that!

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

P.S. I've been watching this movie for 50 years and I never noticed Norma's hat up there. That's hilarious.

[@kellyi.4353]

When John Travolta had beer all over his mouth, chin, neck...."Wipe your face, you whole everything. I can't get over this." That's EXACTLY how I've always felt every time I watch this movie (first saw it back when it came out in 1976). Saw it a bunch of times and I always want him to wipe his darn face and neck! lol lol