CARRIE (1976) | First Time Watching | MOVIE REACTION | LOOK AT HER FACE!!!

[@stillaboveground2470]

The director was asked about the prom scene. He said that the gym teacher was not laughing at Carrie. When Carrie's mind snapped, she hallucinated and envisioned everyone laughing at her like her mother predicted. In the novel, Tommy's skull was broken when the bucket hit him. He was definitely dead when the fire consumed the school.

[@ericjohnson9623]

Yeah, unlike the novel where Miss Collins instinctively laughed and regretted it, it's clear that in the film, Carrie took a couple people laughing as the whole room laughing falsely.

[@elijahvincent985]

Isn't the gym teacher SO awesome?! Best character of the movie!

[@4Kandlez]

The distorted scene of them all laughing couldn't have made it any clearer that she was having a psychotic episode

[@keithjones7037]

I really hated that Tommy died, but I'm glad he didn't suffer.

[@tylergannon7398]

I think in the novel Carrie felt him dying and experienced his death through a psychic link she had with him which explains her freaking out and murdering everyone. Edit: Also I am pretty sure the gym teacher escapes the school through a vent

[@rainbowroad1917]

Norma really had the nerve to laugh at Carrie’s prom dress, when she showed up to her prom in that cheesy red baseball cap. 😂😂

[@quantavinmoore3006]

Like Seriously

[@watchmanschannelofdespair]

@@quantavinmoore3006 Like totally.

[@pigmeatmarkham898]

PJSoles 4 ever!

[@leeannmcdermott8313]

Still don’t get that🤷🏻‍♀️

[@alucard624]

@@leeannmcdermott8313 Me neither. She looked stupid wearing that hat. Wonder if anyone has ever asked PJ Soles at a horror con why she was wearing the hat during the prom sequence.

[@user-vc5rp7nf8f]

ending was actually kinda sad. misunderstood her whole life, ridiculed, teased, mocked, and her own mother doesn't even want her and tries to kill her even though what she is isn't her fault

[@LA_HA]

I felt bad for Carrie. But, honestly, I felt worse for Sue. Not just her friends, but her Entire Class plus a few juniors died. A few likely escaped because they were either at home for some reason (sick, no date, revoked tickets, etc.), or were outside when everything happened. But, Sue must have deep trauma from not just the loss of her friends, but the fact that she truly believes that it was her kindness to Carrie that caused everything. Especially when the true culprits died and there's no way to really blame them without seeming to be a bad person speaking ill of the dead for doing so

[@Powerranger-le4up]

And considering that I was a victim of bullying by my own brother, I know how Carrie feels.

[@jaredporikos2197]

@@LA_HA They deserved it team Carrie

[@LA_HA]

@@jaredporikos2197 Who's "they"?

[@HuntingViolets]

She should have run away and become the world's best magician.

[@stillaboveground2470]

The dream sequence was filmed backwards to make it look more dreamlike. Notice a car in the background driving backwards. Amy Irving's mother played Sue's mother and she actually got scared when Amy freaked out at the end. The hand coming up from the grave really was Sissy Spacek's.

[@misterprickly]

Sissy almost didn't get the role because she was told (during the audition) that she looked to glamorous. Sissy ran into the bathroom, washed her face and hair, towel dried herself, got back into line and tried again. The movie heads saw this shy, scared, mousy girl and said "I think we found out Carrie".

[@ZHOZEP]

I also heard she put vaseline in her hair to make it look greasy?

[@dsfddsgh]

I've never thought of Sissy Spacek as glamorous to be honest.

[@alucard624]

@@dsfddsgh Neither have I. She's always come across as normal looking and like she's worked for a living.

[@dorianleakey]

Amazing to think how the remake took one of the most conventionally attractive hollywood actors to put in the role, they haven't a clue anymore.

[@EdithCardellini]

"Sissy Spacek wasn't considered for the role of Carrie until her husband (art director Jack Fisk) convinced Brian De Palma to allow her to audition. Until then, De Palma was wedded to the idea of Amy Irving playing Carrie; when Spacek got the part instead, De Palma gave Irving the smaller role of Sue." "Sissy Spacek was widely thought to be too pretty for the title role, the character in the book being described as chunky, mousy-haired and covered in pimples with Spacek being a tall, thin redhead with clear skin. The character was then re-written slightly, saying that she would be pretty if she made an effort to tidy herself up a bit." Source: IMDb

[@holiday197]

This is one of the rare movies where the antagonists are all ‘normal’ human beings who are either bullying and taunting Carrie for being sheltered and ‘weird’ or are overbearingly trying to protect Carrie (her mother). But it’s easier to root for the supernatural protagonist (Carrie) because you relate to her feelings of oppression, suppression and dread (because of the bullies). I don’t believe that there has been any other film in this realm. Such a classic movie!

[@christopherb501]

A mutant's story if someone from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters never turns up.

[@daffodil852]

Carrie’s mother wasn’t protectively overbearing, she was clearly suffering from mental illness and extremely abusive to Carrie. She’s definitely not a “normal” person

[@kevinbailey8827]

Massacre at Central High, which came out the same year is similarly themed, but features a non-supernatural killer.

[@hailhydreigon2700]

​​@O. B. Carrie's mom did love her and did want to protect her. She just had some serious issues with sexual repression and trauma from when her ex-husband r*ped her. She thought that by sticking to religion and keeping Carrie in her tight grasp, she could help her daughter avoid what happened to her. Unfortunately, it just made things worse.

[@ejrandler]

That statue was not Jesus but St. Sebastian, one of the first martyrs of the church. He was tied to a tree/pole and shot full of arrows. It makes sense that Carrie's mom prays to him because she sees herself as a martyr (which is why she was smiling when she was dying) and Carrie must grow up as a martyr, with as much suffering as possible.

[@IChooseJesus9091]

1st martyr of the Catholic church maybe. But Stephen was the 1st martyr spoken of in the non Catholic Bibles....

[@ejrandler]

@@IChooseJesus9091 "One of the first..."

[@ueno1]

I actually thought it was Jesus too! Thanks for clearing this up for a non-Catholic 40+ years later! 🤥

[@LA_HA]

@@ejrandler But, the creepy eyes aren't a thing, right? 'Cause, yeesh

[@ejrandler]

@@LA_HA 😆 No, creepy eyes on martyrs are not a thing. You do see some serious creepiness on demons, like Asmodeus. 👿

[@mckeldin1961]

This movie came out during my sophomore year in high school. I was a bullied kid and I must have seen it 10 times during its original release -- the first time I saw it, I almost got sick during the credit sequence (the volleyball game). When one of the kids says "hit it to Carrie, she'll miss it," and was then angrily mocked when she did miss it, this was exactly what I went through every single P.E. period! (And being a guy, the lack of athletic prowess was particularly damaging in the eyes of my peers). The result was that I empathized so completely with Carrie that when she let loose I think I was even more horrified than many others in the audience. I waffle as to who is my favorite character... It's either Miss Collins (the gym teacher) or Sue. This movie was the first in a long line of Hollywood surprise jump scares at its climax. I don't think there's been a more effective jump scare since! [The movie strikes me as not only as a great 70s horror flick, but also something close to a Greek tragedy!]

[@Tr0nzoid]

I hated P.E. and never cared to play sports. Thankfully, in my school system, if we took P.E. in the 9th grade, we didn't have to take it for the rest of high school.

[@GullibleTarget]

Thank you for sharing that. I have always been fairly athletic but everything with a ball...yikes😄 and ofcourse boys have to know how to handle a ball and all we did was ballgames. On the rare occasions we didn't do ballsports; we'd do gymnastics, which I had a knack for. My teacher would encourage me but laugh at me simultaneously and all the guys would see that as permission to call me a 'fruit' and worse slurs. But I loved P.E, really. I liked to move around, jump, balance on things, running(I always looked fwd to the dreaded shuttle-run) and I'm still an avid rollerblader. I'm glad that those bad memories didn't take away my joy for exercise. Although, I have let myself go.

[@ResidentEvilWiz]

@@Tr0nzoidsame for me

[@jerryrpettus1926]

When the movie came out, that scene at the end where Carrie reaches out from the grave in Sue's dream was one of the first instances of that last second scare that is now standard in all horror movies. I remember people talking about it and being really freaked out in the theaters.

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

It's also a reference to Deliverance (1972).

[@IamnotJohnFord]

I remember watching this on TV with the family. It scared the crap out of all of us. And, when the hand came up out of the grave to grab the one that got away, all five of my sisters screamed. No one slept that night.

[@halloweenville1]

Remember watching that scene in the 80's, and practically jumped out of my own skin. But your right, it is now totally overused and predictable.

[@Kylopod]

Stephen King has cited it as one of the scariest moments in cinema, as it was invented for the movie-it wasn’t in his book.

[@jerryrpettus1926]

@@Kylopod yep. I loved the book and the movie is what got me started reading King.

[@80sNewWaveGeek]

Nancy Allen, who played Chris, said that the slap scene with the gym teacher required 29 takes - and they were all real slaps.

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

think depalma has a tarentino type fetish for bitches slappin bitches? lol except quentins is feet, not slapping lol

[@hulkslayer626]

Carrie.... the original anti-bullying campaign 😉

[@ueno1]

The Ultimate...

[@SéaFid]

Original school shooter plot lol, but the bullies were creeps so if a parent of one would take off my damn belt the social services be damned

[@donaldrack]

I feel so sad for Carrie in the bathtub at the end. She's very innocent and scared. The power got out of her control, I don't think deep down she actually wanted to harm anyone. She just wanted to get clean and have her mom hold her.

[@deeanna8448]

"Carrie" was Stephen King's first novel. He didn't think anyone would buy it, so he threw it in the trash. His wife found it and convinced him to submit it for publication.

[@agenttheater5]

Here's the thing with Chris. In her four years at that high school she's received 70 detention slips, twenty of which were for harassing other students. She has skipped 50 of those detentions in total, and though her marks haven't been that high her father who's a lawyer pulled some strings to get her admitted into university. When she was in middle school she and her friends put a fire cracker in a girls shoe because the girl had a hairlip and nearly lost two toes and all she got was a suspension. As far as Chris is concerned, she has the right to do anything to anyone, but people can't treat her in a certain way or speak to her in a certain way because 'her father was a lawyer'. We find this out in the book when her dad threatens to sue the school if Chris's prom tickets aren't accepted and the gym teacher isn't fired. The principle threatened to counter sue because of all the things Chris has done and for what happened to Carrie.

[@LA_HA]

When school administrators had balls. Now, they give in to students and their crazy parents like it's First nature. Back then, if your kid was a smart ash, it was the painful "Board of Education" for younger kids and various Too Bad So Sad punishments for older ones. haha

[@agenttheater5]

@@LA_HA To be fair that was written in the 70s, so the fact that Chris still attended that school might not suggest that they had 'balls' back then either.

[@LA_HA]

@@agenttheater5 True. Or maybe it's about picking your battles. Also, kids couldn't be simply banished from public schools, especially if there weren't many alternatives in the immediate area. It took more than bullying to permanently expel students. Some schools/districts had more options than others, which is why some kids were bounced from school to school, both private and public. The richer the family, the more options they had, including boarding schools and military academies. If the kid was especially horrible, they were ordered into certain schools that catered to problem children, usually with specially trained teachers and staff. In the scheme of things, Chris was just a run of the mill spoiled brat and her father knew it. haha

[@alucard624]

Chris's death in the 2013 remake was much more satisfying IMO. Very over the top but still deserved.

[@angelaalbury986]

Nope she died in the car with travolta

[@brandoncollins1225]

In the book Carrie killed everyone at that prom and some folks in town. I think the final body count was 440. Stephen King got part of the way through his manuscript for Carrie and threw it in the trash. His wife, Tabitha, dug it out, read what he wrote, and told him to finish it. It turned out to be his first published novel and lead to Salem's Lot and The Shining.

[@harrymarshall]

,, it's been a long while but I'm sure the majority of the book is all about the run up, the high school relationships& reads like a teen drama? Bút I could b wrong considering the amount of school nostalgia bs the 80s churned out,, I'm looking at you John Hughes

[@MrJquintel]

iirc Carrie even locked the fire hydrants so the firefighters couldn't use them.

[@xensonar9652]

@Brad1980 I think it's fantastic.

[@PacMan-ph4uy]

@Brad1980 You're life is boring loser

[@brandoncollins1225]

@Brad1980 It launched his career. Without it we wouldn't have a ton of great stuff.

[@JerryFisher]

The reference from "That '70s Show" where Steven's mother yells "They're all going to laugh at you!" on his prom night killed me.

[@alucard624]

Adam Sandler used that line for the title of one of his comedy albums back in the day and it's a skit on the same album as well.

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

@@alucard624 at a medium pace lol

[@Allgood309]

I remember the first time I watched it, I cried a lot for Carrie, it has a very high drama load, Sissy is spectacular, it's not surprising that she was nominated for an Oscar for this film... the christ and the religious images scared me and they are heavy in the scenes, adding the builying she suffers, the religious fanatic mother, all mixed up!. and the wonderful revenge at the end. this movie is unforgettable.

[@rojopo1971]

Piper Laurie, who played her mother, was incredible

[@cambricjimenez4882]

Yeah Im was glad to see her again in THe Faculty.

[@tabeccaletford408]

Carrie's revenge at the end is brilliant, but I felt sad for Tommy. Him and Carrie were so sweet together at the prom

[@noirgatherer]

In the novel Tommy was killed by the bucket hitting him on the head. He was dead before Carrie went ballistic.

[@Allgood309]

Best version ever! Sissy is perfect!

[@stubbornscorpio7]

The movie is a classic, but I love tne book. It begins after the prom incident. A “Carrie Commission” has been created to investigate what happened at the school and they speak to witnesses to gather what led up to it.

[@stillaboveground2470]

"True sorrow is as rare as true love." My favorite quote from the novel, "Carrie".

[@fjparasite1172]

True love is 100% easy to find if the girl doesn't want the hottest guy with 300 girls after him.

[@stillaboveground2470]

@@fjparasite1172 My favorite quote from "The Simpsons": "Oh, don't worry children. Most of you will *never* fall in love, but will marry out of fear of dying alone!" - Edna Krabappel

[@fjparasite1172]

@@stillaboveground2470 my favourite quote is from Spider-man Far From Home. "Mysterio is the Truth". Literally a lying manipulator illusionist saying it. XD

[@kylerobb8066]

I feel so bad for Carrie every time I see this movie... she didn't deserve what happened to her.

[@MrGpschmidt]

Kind of surprised the Mrs. there didn't have much sympathy for the bullied Carrie. One of the best King adaptations and De Palma films with justifably Oscar nomainated turns by Spacek and Piper Laurie (Best Actress/Supporting Actress - unheard of for a horror film). I saw this when it first came out (I was 10) w/my family at a drive-in and the hand-out-of-the-grave gotcha! scared my mother so pad she spilled all her popcorn all over my dad's car (and she was more upset about the opening title sequence more than anything - it was over my head since I had no clue what a period was then; good times). The remake is unmemorable and unnecessary as most are and it starred Chloe Grace Moretz & Julianne Moore). Some trivia : the school - Bates High - is a nod to Hitchcock's PSYCHO (Norman Bates) as well as the score's shrieking violins. Edie McClurg (best known for John Hughes' FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF & PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES is one of Carrie's cruel classmates (she of the ginormous glasses and hyena laugh) and Michael Talbott as Freddie is best known for being on MIAMI VICE.

[@heatherduke5410]

The one thing about Carrie trying on the lipsticks at the drugstore is that they were sample lipsticks you could try before you buy them. It's just that you aren't supposed to put them on your lips. You're meant to swatch it on your hand.

[@Tonyblack261]

I watched this in the cinema when it came out. The "jump scare" at the end was much more powerful with a cinema full of people. I think this was Stephen King's first book.

[@kristennelson3190]

It was Stephen King's first book. He had actually thrown the first draft in the trash, and his wife Tabitha fished it out, read it, and encouraged him to finish it.

[@danielallen3454]

It was his first novel. He had been selling short stories semi-regularly over the years.

[@Goomyx1492]

First published book. Though he had written several before this one. Some of which went on to be published later.

[@canadianscratcher7834]

@6:40 that's Priscilla Pointer. Who also was in "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors"

[@haveanicedave1551]

I saw her on Adam-12 and she played Mrs. Carey.

[@jdogjohnson9038]

Classic both sissy spacek and Piper Laurie were both excellent in they're performances.

[@laustcawz2089]

...& both were nominated for Oscars.

[@nsasupporter7557]

What about the 2013 one?

[@canadianscratcher7834]

@6:19 the kid falling off the bike is the son of the director Brian DePalma.

[@adorkability]

The voice of the kid on the bike who said, "Creepy Carrie! Creepy Carrie!" was provided by Betty Buckley, who played the gym teacher.

[@garnet0101]

That was directors son

[@ezelldaniels6064]

This movie is a masterpiece!! Love it! ❤

[@JwenBrykowski]

Interesting you mentioned her hands at 24:40. Sissy Spacek actually paid close attention to the position of her hands in many scenes as a way to convey her emotion and character. She studied the art of Gustave Doré to absorb herself in very dramatic, religious iconography and tried to mimic the positions of the figures in his portraits for the same effect, especially her hands.

[@gydyup]

Correct! Wow a true fan!

[@shainewhite2781]

The ending with Carrie's hand rising out of the ground was #8 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

[@blaqpirate]

Yes!!! I remember that special counting down the top 100 scary movie scenes!! I watched the whole series!

[@cmo5173]

What was #1?

[@TwilightLink77]

@@cmo5173 Jaws

[@blaqpirate]

@@TwilightLink77 The top five films included on the list were predominantly from the 1960s and 1970s. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ranked fifth for the scene in which Leatherface bashes Kirk's skull in with a sledgehammer. Psycho ranked number four for the death scene of the private investigator Arbogast. The Exorcist ranked third for the scene where the possessed Regan MacNeil's head spins clockwise during the exorcism. Alien ranked second for the chestburster sequence. Jaws was placed at the number one spot for the opening scene in which the unseen shark devours Chrissie Watkins during a midnight swim.

[@blaqpirate]

Misery 12 Scream 13 Halloween 14 Freaks 15 The Omen 16 A Nightmare on Elm Street 17 The Haunting 18 Hellraiser 19 The Ring 20 Jacob's Ladder 21 Don't Look Now 22 Rosemary's Baby 23 Suspiria 24 Phantasm 25 Seven 26 Frankenstein 27 When a Stranger Calls 28 The Serpent and the Rainbow 29 The Blair Witch Project 30 Friday the 13th 31 Pet Sematary 32 The Fly 33 The Hitcher 34 Aliens 35 Cape Fear 36 House on Haunted Hill 37 Peeping Tom 38 Dawn of the Dead 39 Black Sunday 40 The Hills Have Eyes 41 An American Werewolf in London 42 It's Alive 43 The Game 44 The Wicker Man 45 The Sentinel 46 Nosferatu 47 The Thing 48 Les Diaboliques 49 The Last House on the Left 50 The Dead Zone 51 The Phantom of the Opera 52 Demons 53 The Changeling 54 The Vanishing 55 Single White Female 56 House of Wax 57 Cujo 58 Fatal Attraction 59 The Beyond 60 The Devil's Backbone 61 The Wolf Man 62 Deliverance 63 Near Dark 64 The Tenant 65 Marathon Man 66 Duel 67 The Black Cat 68 Re-Animator 69 The Stepfather 70 The Sixth Sense 71 Them! 72 Blood Simple 73 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 74 Candyman 75 The Evil Dead 76 Signs 77 The Brood 78 Dracula 79 Poltergeist 80 The Howling 81 The Terminator 82 The Others 83 Blue Velvet 84 Blood and Black Lace 85 The Wizard of Oz 86 Black Christmas 87 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 88 Alice, Sweet Alice 89 The Night of the Hunter 90 Shallow Grave 91 Village of the Damned 92 Child's Play 93 Pacific Heights 94 Jurassic Park 95 The Birds 96 Cat People 97 Zombi 2 98 Creepshow 99 28 Days Later 100

[@dejaalston8672]

Carrie is one of the greatest and scariest horror movies of all time. The story, music, images, tension, performance's, and cinematography was so supenseful, frightening, haunting, mysterious, thrilling, intense, eerie, creepy, and spooky. It was such a nail-biting and intense thrill ride as it kept me on the edge of my seat. 😱😰 It really identifies and analyzes the boundaries of teenage cruelty. Sissy Spacek did a phenomenal and spectacular job portraying Carrie White as she put tons of emotion and depth into her role. It was decent. To this day that ending still gives me chills and goosebumps and I still watch it and I consider it a classic. It never gets old. 😍😎💯👍

[@ryanjacobson2508]

To each his own, the whole movie is excessively bombastic, there's hardly anyone to root for, and almost seems like a knowing parody of the late 70's. And Stephen King's first (but not last) caricature of fundamentalist religion, which I've never been thrilled with.

[@michaelpopowich5095]

This movie is dark as fuck thank you Steven King

[@tacticalgrace6456]

Would make a great matinee double bill with The Shining. Watching those two for the first time back to back you’d definitely be on edge coming out of the movie house! 😅

[@alanholck7995]

Steven King wouldn’t let his daughter read Carrie until she was 16; after she read the book she refused to speak to him for 2 weeks.

[@XAVIERSHIMEX]

Lol

[@marennicholson5444]

Love this movie. Piper Laurie is just so outstanding as Carrie’s mother and I think it has one of the best horror endings ever that just sits with you.

[@gydyup]

She still scares me to this day.

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

@@gydyup watch the dead girl

[@orgasmatronrickpsych]

from 2008 omg piper laurie is older and even more brutal

[@tracithomas6543]

She was nominated for an Oscar for her role in this.

[@3DJapan]

13:33 This guy is William Katt, he was in an action-comedy series I loved called The Greatest American Hero.

[@blaqpirate]

One of my favorite movies!!! I almost can't believe you never seen this classic before!

[@domr3978]

That ending of that dream when Carrie's hand came out of the grave was so terrifying and shocking if you watched this in the 1970s or 80's because it was a first of its kind that no one ever saw before and wasn't at all prepared for it. It made my heart pound so fast when I first saw it, the same way I reacted to another dream in a movie near the end from Friday The 13th in 1980 when the music and everything was so peaceful then Jason as a (dead but alive) boy jumped out of the water and grabbed that teenage girl in the boat.

[@GrendelNin]

If you think Carrie killed a lot of people in the movie, that is nothing compared to what she does in the book.

[@ueno1]

I remember the novel having Carrie, as she's dying, mind link with Sue and almost takes Sue to the grave with her!

[@strongrex2615]

@@ueno1 I wanted to see an on screen version of that interaction. We have three Carrie movies and not a single one of them has that moment. I remember looking forward to the 2013 movie and hoping that it did contain that scene only for me to find out that they just made it more like the 1976 version instead of its own version. It disappointed me!

[@lynetteoliva1256]

I know u said u really didn't like Carrie after killing all those people. I actually felt sorry for her. I also read the book many years ago. Carrie always had some sort of ability. Her mother made her repress it saying it was from the devil. Her mother never told her about her period because she hoped Carrie wouldn't get it because that would mean she would become a woman & have the evil creatures that are men coming after her. Her mother was also of the belief that the world outside of their home was full of wicked people/sinners, & that prayers & her mother's "love" could keep Carrie "safe". So, Carrie had it rough, being psychologically brainwashed & bullied by her mother & bullied by her peers because she was awkward/"weird". With the way things happened @ the prom & her mother instilling the thought that everyone is gonna make fun of u/laugh @ u, like it's the world's big cruel joke, Carrie had a psychotic break. When she brings the house down on her & her mother in the movie, it's because she realized what she had done too her own mother. Ok, favorite character in the movie & the book is Sue. She had a redeeming character arc. In the beginning, she was part of the bullies, but then seemed to see the error of her ways trying to be kinder to Carrie. Anyway, I enjoyed both movie & book. Then again, Stephen King is my favorite author. Carrie 2 is not that great of a movie, but if you want to form your own opinion, then give it a watch. Amy Irving does return as a much older Sue in the movie.

[@Dani..663]

A classic case of DONT F WITH THE QUIET ONES

[@darkridge]

"Welcome on back to You, Me & the Dirty Pillows"

[@NeelTheSphynx]

The figure inside of Carrie's prayer closet is actually that of Saint Sebastian.

[@Psergiorivera]

THIS WAS GREAT! I loved the “dirty pillows” moment, that was special 😂

[@samanthanickson6478]

man, carrie’s death stare at the end. she did not blink once.

[@brandoncollins1225]

George Lucas and Brian DePalma shared studio space for their auditions for this and Star Wars. A lot of the actors that ended up in this you can find in audition footage with Ford, Hammil and Fisher.

[@Madbandit77]

Billy Katt auditioned for Luke and he was reading lines with Kurt Russell as Han Solo.

[@kentonkruger8333]

@@Madbandit77 I can picture him in that role. Edit to clarify I mean William Katt.

[@barangbaik608]

Yeah... The good old days...

[@johnnymoreno5065]

Yeah only William Katt and Amy Irving did the audition roles tbh. Ain't sure about the others tho

[@enriquemendiola490]

PJ Soles talked about. She said they looked at them and said Star Wars or Carrie

[@1s23d]

The mother is the most terrifying person in his movie

[@Keedeeg]

I went into high school in Fall of '77. I was an 8th grader, scared to death but they were allowed to send us to the principal to be paddled with a leather paddle. **Ouch**

[@pasaniusventris4113]

a note on the way carrie holds herself after the blood falls: it's based on a painting of lady macbeth, specifically gustave moreau's 1851 painting "the study of lady macbeth." sissy spacek really connected with the character, and refused to wash the "blood" off herself for three days during shooting. she also insisted she be buried in the ground for that final shot, that it had to be her hand coming out of the ground to grab sue's arm.

[@matthewcostello3530]

her mom was really good in The Hustler

[@tstreet6526]

Fun fact! My hobbies include running, cooking, and reading fanfic alternate endings to Carrie!

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

why would you need a fanfic?, 2002 Carrie gave us a really happy ending with Sue and Carrie going off together

[@robertmcghintheorca49]

It's funny you say that because, for the 2013 remake of "Carrie", which is terrible even on its own, they did actually have an alternate ending. And the way I'm going to surmise it for you is this. Think the ending of this film put in a blender with the chestburster scene from "Alien" and the nightmare scene from, ironically, "The Fly" remake.

[@Hum0ng0us]

Interesting facts: PJ Soles got her eardrum burst and got knocked out when the firehose water hit her. The end of this was the inspiration for the end of Friday the 13th. When he finished writing this, his first ever book, he threw it into the garbage on account of he thought it was trash, only to have his whife dig it out and make him turn it into the publisher.

[@agenttheater5]

22:55 Everyone's been laughing at her her whole life, easy for her to imagine that even someone who was nice to her would be laughing. Everyone laughs at her for some reason, then because of that they bully her in every way possible, physical harassment, graffiti on desks or lockers, name calling, and then they all laugh at her again. And then she has to go home to her mother's rantings and beatings and the closet where she has been locked in all day twice.

[@stevesheroan4131]

Sue (Amy Irving) and Tommy are the true heroes (and ultimate victims of circumstance) of the story. They are at the most vulnerable age of life, yet they stand up for Carrie in the most selfless way, even with the scrutiny of the teacher and their horrible classmates to look forward to. They truly just wanted to help Carrie in some way, wanting no credit for it. Tommy’s reward is death, and Sue’s reward is what will probably be a life of crippling PTSD. Bullies suck, and this movie portrays them well. Their comeuppance is littered with collateral damage, but I still ultimately feel that the innocent deaths are really Criss’ fault. Carrie had the ultimate case of temporary insanity.

[@selketanunseshat3221]

Tommy was the real victim, not Sue...

[@thomasbaker2067]

Carrie is my go to watch on a Saturday night.

[@jondishmonmusicandstuff2753]

The music to this move is beautiful. I've played the flute part on this many times.,

[@gazoontight]

That statue is interesting - real crucifixes don't depict arrows in the body, but statues of St. Sebastian do. That statue is a mix of the two.

[@kirstengilroy302]

I just find you both so comforting to watch, like you just live up the road (you don’t I live in the UK) I lost my mam at the end of last month and I have just been having your reactions on in the background. You make me smile. Keep it up and thank you 💖💖

[@MrsMovies]

Hang in there Kirsten, glad you can hang out and watch movies with us to help pass the time.

[@robertmcghintheorca49]

I just noticed the split in the wall between you makes it look like the split screen shots. Who would've guessed?

[@marksawicki3595]

I've watched this movie several times, and I just now realized why Tommy always looked so familiar. William Katt was also the title character of the TV program 'The Greatest American Hero'

[@dwcinnc]

Speaking of teachers in the seventies; once during class change with the halls filled with students, I witnessed my math teacher chase a student down the hall. When he caught up with the student, he started choking him. My 6th grade teacher (in the 60s) had a paddle with holes drilled in it. What good times, huh?

[@davidmcleod5133]

I remember my kindergarten teacher in ‘83 breaking a paddle on a student. Not everything about those times was great.

[@ericjohnson9623]

Welcome on back to You, Me, and the Dirty Pillows.

[@tomgraham8337]

Lolololol!!! I absolutely love you two. Your commentary always has me rolling.

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

Especially the dirty pillows part

[@oAPXo]

Some of these scenes were filmed in my town! Specifically the part where the boy is flown off the bike when he teasers her! And I think her house but for sure where its demolished at the end. Also the buying stuff for the prom, that's main street.

[@BrandonJames2016]

Honestly if I was Carrie I would’ve done the same thing sometimes at one point of sm bullying you just snap.

[@thomaseure7476]

There is also a TV remake that aired on TV in 2002. I recommend reading the book.

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

This automatically one of my favorite reactions of Carrie.

[@jrasicmark1]

I never even knew there was a Carrie vs. Jason movie! Cool!

[@tjfrizzi5965]

Trivia: Amy Irving who played Sue met Steven Spielberg through George Lucas when she auditioned for Star Wars. It was around the time of Carrie. They dated for a few years broke up and got back together and got married. That's the short version... haha

[@bobdroll6381]

"Creepy Jesus" was the name of my alternative band in college.

[@85michelle7]

Huge thanks for the upload, I'm in hospital right now and I love carrie so this couldn't have come at a better time x

[@MrsMovies]

Hope for a speedy recovery, glad we can entertain you while you’re down.

[@ladiegreen608]

18:42 It's his face when she was doing the "shimmy" for me😂😂😂😂😂😂🙃💀

[@ladyyuna2000]

Interesting facts about Carrie (1976) Stephen King was paid $2500 for the film rights to Carrie. While speaking at a book event in Fort Myers, Florida, in 2010, King recalled that he was paid just $2500 for the movie rights to Carrie-which may seem like a pittance, but he has no regrets. “I was fortunate to have that happen to my first book,” King said. Sissy Spacek was adamant that her own hand appear in the final scene of Carrie. Sissy Spacek loved to witness moviegoers' reactions to Carrie's ending. “When I was in New York, and Carrie came out, I would go to theaters just for the last five minutes of the film to watch everyone jump out of their chairs,” Spacek recalled. “People are all relaxed. The music is really beautiful and relaxing, and all of a sudden that comes up, and people just go crazy.”

[@darrenrunning5415]

Somewhere, in an alternate universe, William Katt and Amy Irving are Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia; while Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are Tommy and Sue Snell.

[@JamesJoyce12]

the remake of this is execrable - so glad you watched the "good" version

[@billbabcock1833]

When writing Carrie, Stephen King and his wife Tabatha were living in Boulder, Colorado. One day they went for a drive and wound up in Estes Park, Colorado and came across the Stanley Hotel. Walking through the hotel gave King an idea which eventually became The Shining.

[@Bluebox87]

This movie always makes me cry.

[@Charlee1776]

I forgot that back then, they had lipstick testers in the stores where women could just walk up and use. You guys reminded me that was actually a thing! I actually remember using them as a young girl (EW if only I knew then what we know now!).

[@gazoontight]

One girl I knew told me that she only put the lipstick samples on her hand, not her lips.

[@Charlee1776]

@@gazoontight Yes, but I had no idea when I was like 6 years old and wandered away from my mother in the shop one day and I've seen women doing both many times in my youth. Still a nasty possibility.. I can't be the only kid to try it.... or maybe I am that "special" xD

[@gazoontight]

@@Charlee1776 I am sure you were not the only one.

[@ZeniaRose]

Oh, are make up testers not a thing anymore? ... I mean even before Covid? I haven't bought makeup since I was a teenager (late 90s early 2000s).

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

@@ZeniaRose Umm, Herpes dude, Don't go around putting unsanitized stuff on your lips

[@terryhughes7349]

One of Brian DePalma's best films. Piper Laurie was wickedly creepy in this film.

[@yasser3268]

The sequel from 1999 is called (The Rage: Carrie 2) and it’s about a different girl named Rachel Lang who was confirmed that she is “Carrie’s Half Sister”

[@thereturningshadow]

Every time I hear that line "They're all gonna laugh at you" it always reminds me a a gay guy my my graphic design class in college. Tim was hilarious and he spoke this so perfectly like Carrie's mom it was uncanny and he always said it a inopportune moments which made it funny. For example we would always critique each others work progress with our designs. Sometimes if someone's design was not up to par he would use this line and everyone around him would burst out in laughter.

[@AtomicVampire1]

Best period piece ever

[@canadianscratcher7834]

Here's a bit of trivia for "You, Me & the Movies" Amy Irving(Sue Snell) Priscilla Pointer(Mrs. Snell) Are mother & daughter in real life.

[@robertmcghintheorca49]

And a sub bit of trivia. Amy Irving was so realistic while filming the final scene that Priscilla Pointer couldn't tell if she was acting and called out "Amy", not "Sue". They couldn't re-film it, so they covered it up with Pino Donaggio's score.

[@masterfulwarriorplus5398]

The girl in the red hat plays Lynda in Halloween and Sue mother who is her real mother is the bad nurse from A Nightmare On Elm Street 3.

[@RabidTribble]

Question - If everyone died in the school, did that make Sue Valedictorian? Always have to look for the silver lining...

[@RabidTribble]

Oh - I remember reading about someone trying to copycat the pigs blood prank after the movie came out, but they were caught before pulling it off.

[@williamcarr7347]

Juliet Burke said that Carrie was her favorite book when she was in her Others Book Club.

[@quantavinmoore3006]

The Movie Reaction I’ve been waiting for

[@judethaddeus9856]

I love how when the ashtray fell off the desk the gym teacher immediately picked it up as though that happens every single day

[@annaparsons4788]

Thumbs up for the "John Travolta as a merkin" comment alone (lofl)!!

[@todderickson2435]

"Powder blue was a popular tux color." You know it! 😎 I wore a powder blue tux to prom my junior year, which was a couple years after this came out, and a powder blue and navy blue tux my senior year. I was stylin'!! 😄

[@lennygriffin1149]

“The Rage: Carrie 2” is the sequel and I think is about a relative of Carrie’s. It’s a decent movie. Believe it or not, there’s actually 2 remakes, a TV remake in 2002 and a theatrical remake in 2013.

[@alucard624]

The 2002 TV remake has a twist ending too from what I remember as well.

[@ueno1]

@@alucard624 it was a pilot for a TV series that didn't get picked up.

[@alucard624]

@@ueno1 That's what I remember reading after seeing it the first time. That could've been an interesting TV series if done right.

[@kyleshockley1573]

@15:15 "Future car salesman." Well that works out, he was also in _Used Cars_ with Kurt Russell.

[@123jillbone]

I love this movie and I also love Carrie the Musical. Very faithful to the source material.

[@thomasgriffiths6758]

Welcome back to you me and the dirty pillows!!

[@dragonlynx9969]

I once did 100 jumping jacks in a judo class. My classmates and I all collapsed in unison after we were done counting. 😂

[@80sNewWaveGeek]

In the prom scene, the firehose blasts the actress playing Norma (PJ Soles) who had suffered an eardrum rupture from it.

[@jamesgeorge2852]

Carrie 2 the rage isn't terrible it's one of those movies that makes a good attempt at a follow up but falls a little short but definitely worth at least one watch

[@jadeandjesse5908]

I think people are really harsh on it because making a Carrie sequel seems to ridiculous, but it's probably as good as a Carrie sequel could be. Other than the ending, it isnt just a complete rehash of the first. We get to the see the shy girl make a really genuine connection, and they update the bullying of young girls to include much more sexual harassment from popular male students with rich parents. Its more or less the samw, but has a unique identity and some decent acting.

[@davidbennett1357]

If it had just been a stand alone movie and they didn’t try to tie it to the first one, I would be OK with that. The fact of the matter is that Carrie’s father DIED BEFORE CARRIE WAS BORN so if he had fathered a child with some other woman, that child wouldn’t have been in high school during the 90’s!!

[@crewchief5144]

I graduated (barely) in '90 and our VPs each had a paddle. The teachers couldn't dole out punishment, but they could send you there. My junior year they started giving the option of in-school suspension (ISS). One day or one lick with the paddle. Hmmm...let me think.