Reacting to *Carrie (1976)*

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[@PlonkBloop]

In the 70's directors actually gave the actors room and time to act. I think we're so used to movies jump scaring us and cutting away every 5 seconds to keep us stimulated that to you guys it seems like scenes "linger on". For that reason an amazing performance like piper laurie's is almost entirely lost on the both of you. I also feel like it's okay to not have a hero in every movie you watch. You don't have to agree with the choices of the characters or spend so much time trying to find the "good people".

[@yournamehere6002]

The idea that she criticized De Palma, a world class director, and his "shot composition" shows such ignorance it's depressing.

[@mahmudmurad4655]

@@yournamehere6002 Yesss, that was really shocking since this is one De Palmas best. and being him one of the best. And when she said cinema has evolved...like wtf, most of the pictures and cinematography now are trash except fex exceptions.

[@JCWiley2300]

PREACH

[@CollideFan1]

Well they certainly wouldn't "get it" by the greats in the 40s, 50s and 60s. But I'll give them credit, they're young and may learn to appreciate and understand the older generations of cinema. I certainly did. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and that time period was all about action, sci-fi and fantasy from a young teens point of view. When it came to Westerns, it was Clint Eastwood for me. His Westerns are violent, shades of grey "heroes", compared to my dad's favorite type of Westerns like John Ford/John Wayne films, to use an example of styles. The contrasting styles is like night and day for those who know what I'm talking about. As I became older, I learned to appreciate those older style movies and actually prefer Ford/Wayne Western movies over Clint's Westerns. Star Wars, an all time favorite of mine back in the day, doesn't compare to the 50s sci-fi greats Forbidden Planet or the Day The Earth Stood Still. With time people's favorites, points of view change.

[@AshLee92490]

The teacher thought Sue was trying to ruin Carrie's moment because she saw her boyfriend kissing Carrie when they were on stage and she started running towards it, except Sue didn't even seem to care about the kiss and was only trying to save Carrie...

[@BouillaBased]

The book confirms that Tommy was the first fatality; he died when the bucket hit him in the head.

[@adgato75]

Poor guy. He was a good kid.

[@3DJapan]

Then later he became The Greatest American Hero.

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

I always assumed he was knocked unconscious then died in the fire.

[@Blazingstoke]

@@borntogazeintonightskies For the movie, you're probably right. It's just that in the book, there were _two_ buckets of pig's blood, one for each of them. The one intended for Tommy never flipped over, it just dropped - the weight of all that blood plus the bucket was enough to kill him.

[@Warlocke000]

@@3DJapan Believe it or not.

[@Uncle_T]

Oooooooh yes the shorts were definitely that short in the 70's, for men and women alike. :)

[@kinokind293]

I can vouch for that!

[@paul1979uk2000]

Same in the UK when I was a kid at school in the 80's lol.

[@Mildredpotka]

STOP COMMENTING THAT EVERWHERE. IT'S CREEPY AF.

[@jesses5463]

@@Mildredpotka Also, it should be noted that you are a privileged wh1te, which is beyond creepy.

[@angelavalentino5146]

Absolutely, check out professional Basketball players!

[@kevinburton3948]

29:16 Because it isn't a statue of Jesus; it is St. Sebastian. A Christian Saint and martyr killed when he refused to renounce his Faith during the persecution of Christians- tied to a tree and shot with arrows. This is why when Carrie kills her Mother- Mrs White dies with a smile on her face- because she has now become a martyr like her religious Icon St. Sebastian.

[@fuzzballzz36]

You're right, it has to be Sebastian with all the arrows. It's Jesus in the book and in 40 years of watching this film I've never noticed the difference.

[@zydration3538]

And she has a St Orgasm first.

[@Serai3]

LOL, not according to Piper Laurie. The actress says the mother died the way with that smile for exactly the reason all those noises she was making would make you think. 😆

[@robertyeah2259]

@@Serai3But it is true that the statue is Sebastian and not Christ. But yeah Marge was busting a nut at the thought of meeting God.

[@Serai3]

@@robertyeah2259 Oh yeah, I knew it wasn't Jesus the first time I saw it. Catholic here, so Sebastian was quite familiar to me. It's funny how she chose a statue of a Catholic saint when she's clearly one of those weird holy roller types.

[@LiirThropp2687]

That music as Carrie is walking up on stage is heartbreaking. That's the only time in her life she ever got to be happy or enjoy anything. And even that got ruined. One of the few horror movies that made me cry.

[@AndyBestHP]

Gen X Brit here, fun fact, physical punishment of students was only made illegal, or at least was only enforced, right as I entered secondary school in 84/85. We had two teachers fired for it as it just hadn't sunk in yet that they really could not put hands on us.

[@TheNightBadger]

I remember that too. I think it was phased out but only made illegal in 1987. Different times.

[@adgato75]

Depends on the state. I was paddled at school twice in 1986. I graduated in 1993 and my state still had corporal punishment.

[@robertombricen7966]

Yes, in my country also around 87, 88 it was normal.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

​@@adgato75the others before you are talking sbout uk schools.BTW allowed in fee-charging schools for about a decade longer🎩

[@shampoovta]

Had my PE teacher in like 84 brag to us how in his younger days he put a kid in the hospital for saying "Did you ring daddy-O?" When he called his name. He was a dick. 😄

[@jhornacek]

Sissy Spacek (Carrie) and Piper Laurie (Carrie's mother) both got Oscar nominations for this film. At the time it was unheard of for a horror film to get Oscar nominations, let alone for acting. This was also directed by Brian dePalma and his first financial success.

[@BouillaBased]

It's fantastically ironic that Piper Laurie played the role so over-the-top because she thought the film wouldn't amount to anything. Not only did it get her an Oscar nomination, but it revived her career, which had been non-existent for more than a decade.

[@jhornacek]

@@BouillaBased At the time, horror movies were not seen as prestige films, or something to do to pad your resume. They could be successful but most people were not seeing them to look for great acting performances.

[@TwilightLink77]

Unless you count The Exorcist as the first horror film to win a Oscar

[@jhornacek]

@@TwilightLink77 Yeah, that's true, although The Exorcist only won for Best Screenplay and Sound, but it was nominated for a bunch of awards, including some actors. The Exorcist is a strange "horror" film as for a lot of it, it presents as a normal family drama.

[@hotflesh66]

I believe DePalma's first financial success was the film Sisters with Margot Kidder which is how he got the film Carrie.

[@guitarman8462]

And to think " Carrie " was Stephen Kings first book . He almost threw it away , but his wife convinced him to get it published .

[@dread_kaathulhu4903]

In the book Carrie didn't take it easy. After she burnt down the gym with everyone in it, she started walking home. As she was walking through the town, she destroyed probably about half of it, killing hundreds of people.

[@mztweety1374]

Steven King taught me very early on never pick on the quiet kids😳

[@njt2347]

"Were everyone's shorts really that short back in the 70s." Yes. And not just the girls. Go check out any 70s NBA game.

[@mztweety1374]

😂😂😂

[@theshadowfax239]

Hot pants baby!

[@auerstadt06]

Carrie has a psychotic break after the bucket incident, and only imagines everyone laughing.

[@paullandis5524]

You guys are I think are the only reaction video of this movie that I’ve watched that actually knew that Tommy and Sue were trying to help her you would be surprised on how many people think they are in on it

[@thetranquilitycafe]

I was going to post the same thing. I saw the film when it first came out, and I never thought they were involved.

[@paullandis5524]

Yeah I probably watched 20 reactions to this movie over the years and I can’t remember one who actually knew that they were trying to help her

[@zydration3538]

I wonder what I would think as a first time viewer. If so many people think this it's possible there were mixed messages that people who kind of grew up watching this wouldn't catch.

[@AshLee92490]

I think it's a mix of because she IS friends with Chris and participated it makes it harder to trust her, but also, in modern filmmaking, a lot of movies WOULD have had the twist of Sue being in on it all along, so watching this film today, a lot of audiences would be on a defensive mindset in protectiveness of Carrie...

[@charlize1253]

I always thought it was obvious, but so many reactors miss it. The scene that they all miss is when Carrie compliments Tommy's poem and the teacher mocks her, and Tommy curses at him under his breath. He doesn't quite defend her out loud, but he doesn't like it.

[@cayanne3420]

Yeah, only some people were laughing. A lot of it is up to interpretation, but it is confirmed that the teacher wasn't laughing, that was in Carrie's mind. And personally, I believe the couple from another school that Tommy and her were hanging out with weren't laughing. They had no reason to.

[@vivalapsych]

I think some here might attest that bullying of the 70s knows no peers.

[@JulioLeonFandinho]

Not a lot of horror? It's ALL horror, moral horror... It's completely horrific, there's no redemption for anybody and It's pure evil displayed in front of us. What horror do you need to be more horrific, ladies? A bullied kid, adults that ignore her because they're too selfish and self-centered, vacuous, frivolous teenagers, a mother that wishes her own daughter never to be born and tries to kill her, a whole high school slaughtered... 🤷‍♂

[@alanhembra2565]

I was spanked in school by a principal. Also had a teacher threaten to split a chalk board with my skull. Physical discipline was big in the 80’s.

[@paul1979uk2000]

Yep, same in the UK in the 80's, but it started to change in the mid to late 80's I think, because a lot of parents were complaining about the abuse teachers were giving to kids, basically, some were having a bad day and took it out on the kids lol. Anyway, I think the law changed in what teachers can and can't do, where today, things have swung in the other direction that teachers have little to no powers over kids and the kids take advantage of that. Oh and yes, I've had the spanking treatment as well lol, as well as other things like the cane, the chalk duster thrown at me and even shows lol, it was a different time in what teachers could get away with.

[@charlize1253]

I was in elementary school in the 70s, and saw multiple fistfights. I saw boys throw rocks (hard) at an unpopular boy. Boys weren't disciplined for openly groping girls. Bullying and harassment were looked at very differently back then. And teachers then could legally spank, slap, and paddle students.

[@vytallicaq.6881]

I went to high school back then, and yeah, even the guys had to wear gym shorts that short. It seemed normal back then though. We associated the longer ones with being old-fashioned.

[@nsasupporter7557]

Back in the 70s, principals, teachers, coaches etc. could get physical with students… that was like a normal thing at that time

[@kinokind293]

The great Brian De Palma directed this, and he knew how to take his time and get exactly what he wanted. Those odd little touches were exactly what he wanted. They were no mistake. Film theory has changed very little since the 70's. It wasn't the stone age, after all. And the great directors always know what tools to use to get the result they want. Dutch angles, asymmetrical framing, shadowy vs. flat lighting, depth of field, soft focus, slow motion, split screen (all of which De Palma employed here). . . Check out the work of other great directors. De Palma is a big Hitchcock fan, and borrowed some of his techniques. Mood was the goal. The prom scene takes all the time it needs to build suspense. And when you're not in a hurry you can take your time establishing mood. It's not the destination, it's the journey. One of the problems with modern audiences is their often short attention spans and expectation of fast pacing and formulaic jump scares. That's how we got Michael Bay. Heaven help a Gen-Z who tries to read a 150 year old novel where hundreds of pages are spent describing whaling practices or an internal monologue. . . Sorry about the ranting. Oh, FYI: Sissy Spacek did her own stunts. She really was walking slowly in front of that wall of flame in the prom scene. I think that slo-mo shot of her coming out the gymnasium doors is one of the creepiest in all of film history.

[@ms.j3029]

Carrie is terrifying because of the cruelty and isolation. Modern movies often make cruelty feel outlandish or over the top in some way. But here the students are openly, unapologetically cruel. Yes, they get outlandish too. But there is a simplicity to their cruelty which is all to relatable. We've all had that moment where, even for a moment, somebody just wanted to be be cruel and didn't care. And we all know the feeling of isolation Carrie goes through. Be it at home or school. That sense of private despair, desperate for resolution, but terrified to admit itself. We relate to those twin pains so much that, even though Carrie objectively murders people and without mercy even to those who were kind, we are reluctant to condemn her -- because it would mean condemning a part of ourselves that has already been judged, if only in our past. Stephen King uses Carrie to amplify the feelings of isolation, despair, and cruelty we all know in a kind of evil form of magical realism.

[@zydration3538]

The fact that you find subtlety in how King presents bullying is highly amusing.

[@fernandomendez2709]

Piper Laurie who plays Carries mother was nominated as best supporting actress for the oscars and she said at some point that she accepted the movie because she tought it was a comedy and not a horror movie.

[@Johnny_Socko]

That is one of my favorite anecdotes about this film. And supposedly even when she learned that it was a horror movie, she still mentally played her role as if it were a comedy. Years later, Piper Laurie & Sissy Spacek would reunite to play sisters in _The Grass Harp,_ and in that one it was Piper who was the flighty one, and Sissy who was stern (though at least not psychotic).

[@Warlocke000]

"These are fully grown adults." While that is true, you should take a look at yearbook pictures from back in the day, up to the early 80s. A lot of those seniors look at least that old, while the football players look like they're pushing 40! And, yes, the shorts were that short... on a lot of the guys, too... to say nothing of the mesh shirts.

[@izzonj]

I met Sissy Spacek once and she is the sweetest person ever and so petite. Such makes it such brilliant casting to put her in this movie

[@15blackshirt]

The actress playing the lead bully, Nancy Allen, also starred in the first three RoboCop films. John Travolta followed this up with a starring role in Saturday Night Fever. Director Brian de Palma also directed the remake of Scarface. He and George Lucas shared an open casting call for this and the first Star Wars film

[@lanolinlight]

Y'all didn't get it. Measuring such a film as CARRIE so prosaically and "logically" goes against its operatic, emotional design. Whatever genre one might assign to it, it is fundamentally a movie about the turmoil and rage of a lonely teenage misfit. The "suspense" draws from her emotional fragility and what hostile forces will assail it. How will she respond? If you're watching the film to judge its efficiency in delivering shocks, you are asking it to be something far less interesting or enduring. That said, movies like CARRIE were designed for the big screen in a darkened theater, eons before social media distraction/fragmentation.

[@gswithen]

Brian DePalma is a very accomplished filmmaker and all his shot choices are very intentional. He is a known fan of Alfred Hitchcock and the slow motion sequences are a staple of his filmography. Watch Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, The Untouchables, Body Double. Modern horror films aren't even in the same ball park as the classics.

[@manjiimortal]

One thing to note is that in Stephen King's writing, bullies tend to be portrayed as absolute psychopaths. One of the kid bullies in It was presented as being one in the novel, taking pleasure in slowly killing insects and small animals, for example.

[@joehoy9242]

Taking pleasure in the suffering of another is pretty much the definition of both.

[@JoyceDunnell]

In the book, Chris Hargensen put a firecracker in a girl's shoe just because she had a hair lip causing her to almost loose two of her toes. Carrie wasn't her only victim. Chris was clearly a psychopath.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

The first Stephen King novel, the first to be adapted, and still one of his best works yet. That prom scene is rightfully one of the most infamous and imitating scenes of all time, it still gives me chills.

[@arthurgoonie4596]

Also one that he didn't like and threw in the trash

[@TwilightLink77]

@@arthurgoonie4596and also the one his wife encouraged him to continue.

[@rnw2739]

​@@arthurgoonie4596and also the sole reason he became the success he is now. Without 'Carrie', King wouldn't be known today.

[@dq405]

"Film evolving as an art-form has killed a lot of those [funky] things you notice." No, I'm sorry, but that's beyond untrue. Composition and camera-work in films achieved levels of brilliance right from the start of the medium -- look at Murnau, von Sternberg, Dreyer. A director like de Palma, influenced by Hitchcock, knows what he's doing, and his choices are aesthetic decisions. You can quarrel with his decisions (many of us do!), but they are the product of craft and deliberation; they are not "funky" mistakes.

[@yournamehere6002]

Yeah, she's incredibly stupid. She acts as if the 70's were the stone age, and people were just learning how to walk upright.

[@Johnny_Socko]

DePalma is probably my #1 favorite visual director of all time (although this may be my least favorite film of his). Every shot in every one of his films was meticulously planned, and I just love the extreme dedication to craft.

[@edgarcia4794]

I was in high school when Carrie came out. I took my girlfriend and three of her friends to go see it. They all left the movie super pissed off as they'd all thought Carrie was a homely looking wierdo that should have expected AND accepted the hard time she got. They hated that because they would have joined in the "teasing" they would be considered the bad guys and probably would have been killed for it. ME?? I'd thought Carrie was cute and hot and having ESP made her through the roof even cooler.

[@BouillaBased]

Oof, hope you spotted those red flags from your girlfriend: her attitudes and her friends!

[@edgarcia4794]

@@BouillaBased Yeah. big time.

[@alexandervelez9507]

i hope they became better people.

[@donaldjz]

I liked the girl from MEAN GIRLS because she had ESPN

[@yournamehere6002]

It's kind of amazing, because Sissy Spacek was beautiful

[@guitarman8462]

Also Sue follows Carrie to the house where she was born & Carrie looks up at Sue and says " You Should Have Left Me Alone ". And then she dies.

[@jmag579]

Nancy Allen who played the bully Chris was also Robocops partner. 💫

[@AshLee92490]

You also have to understand that times were different then. You can't go in with a modern mindset on something from a different like the 70s...

[@yournamehere6002]

You can say that 'til you're blue in the face, but this is the way they do it---never understanding context, time period, intention. They have no ability to see things without imposing their moralistic sensibilities and hyper-sensitivities on things.

[@arsiejackson2958]

Right. Reactor on the left os unbearable

[@bengazeley9730]

Misery would be a good one to do.

[@arsiejackson2958]

Lmao. The reactor on thr left would ruin that one like she ruined this one

[@robertbunting3117]

The book/movie that almost wasn't. King had gotten through most of the writing of this and threw it in the trash. His wife Tabitha came home ,saw it, and pulled it out and read it. and then convinced him to keep going with and she helped him write what teenage girls were more like, that was mostly what King hated about it, he wasn't getting them down realistically enough. So...Thank you Tabitha.

[@pollyparrot9447]

The wife's advice was rubbish.

[@AnnaB22]

Sissy Spacek is amazing in "Coal Miner's Daughter" based on the life of Country Western Singer Loretta Lynn. Sissy sang all those songs herself. I wish you guys would react to that movie.

[@angelavalentino5146]

Literally everything in this movie is legit except for super telekinesis. (No seatbelts, short shorts, slapping students, etc).

[@KrystalAnn0688]

Any & all horror films made in the 70s are absolutely terrifying & way scarier than pretty much anything in modern times

[@biguy617]

This movie is based on Stephen King’s first book. When he wrote it he threw away the manuscript because he didn’t think it was good. His wife Tabitha read it and convinced him to finish the book.

[@warrenbfeagins]

Sissey Spacek is beyond good. She is awesome in everything she's ever done.

[@melissabowers6268]

Lots of relatives and spouse and the like in this movie. Sissie Spacek's husband at the time was an art assistant on the film. Priscilla Pointer who played Sue's mother in the movie is Amy Irving's mother in real life. And the song "I Never Dreamed Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me" is sung by Katie Irving - who is Amy's sister and Priscilla's other daughter. The girls were also afraid to do nudity. They filmed Sissie first, and then they saw the dailies and said, if Sissie can do nudity and such, we can too. Piper Laurie said when she died, Brian DePalma told her to almost act like it was orgasmic - hence all the grunting and moaning.

[@sca88]

Saw this as a kid in the theater and it actually affected me as much as seeing the Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre a few years earlier when i was real little kid. Btw I met Linda Blair in 2018 and got to talk to her a while about how she traumatized my childhood.

[@robertyeah2259]

Physical discipline in schools was something that was technically “against the rules” for a while before it was enforced. In the 70s, it would likely depend on the district what was and was not acceptable. In the book, the gym teacher is reprimanded but since she has a good relationship with the principal, and Chris has a terrible track record, she gets let off easy.

[@jimhaggard7436]

I graduated in 1990 from high school. Back then, you had to have an opposite sex date to attend prom. Same sex couples (heterosexual best friends or gay partners) were banned as well as solo or stag people.

[@Johnny_Socko]

My friend was Hollywood (CA) High School class of '88, and she took a girl *and* a guy to the prom as a "throuple". The official prom photo was of the three of them. And yet that probably didn't even register as odd at Hollywood High.

[@neilaslayer]

"Helen" was really 31 in 1976. And yes, she is Grace from Ferris Bueller. Haley was correct, all of these students were full blown adults. Travolta was 22. Amy Irving (Sue) was 23. Sissy Spacek was 27.

[@lynetteoliva1256]

That's just the way they did it back in the day. Hell, they still have 20 something year olds portraying teenagers in some movies & TV shows.

[@zydration3538]

​​@@dudermcdudeface3674there's a difference between acting in a film and seeing the finished product, and they literally remade this with a teenager in the lead already. Not to mention the countless other kids and teens that have acted on horror films. No need for such melodrama.

[@alexraven8531]

The one that played Helen was way too old to play a teenager.

[@aguycalledkwest]

The artist who made the "hideous" Jesus statue was Sissy Spacek's husband Jack Fisk .....

[@dq405]

Jesus? Do you mean the Saint Sebastian statue?

[@jesses5463]

I don't know why people keep calling this Jesus when it's obviously not Jesus.

[@putinscat1208]

To your shorts question, the 70s was early for me, but my HS had some short shorts that we all had to wear in PE.

[@noirgatherer]

Also the house at the end was destroyed by a meteor shower Carrie pulled down from space. They actually filmed the meteor shower but it looked terrible so you just see hints of them coming through the ceiling. Carrie did it once before when she was a child but that scene was also cut.

[@ennuieffect]

The Stephen King miniseries Rose Red did give us a “Carrie” type character who does actually destroy things using meteors/rocks/crystals, all conjured by her mind.

[@RaptorNX01]

"They're gonna laugh at you" is a phrase, and specifically being said with that voice, is burned into my brain. and its worse since I saw the film for the first time as a kid, and an odd trait with kids is that the sound of lines of dialogue in movies, the sound of the voice, the way the words are said, the inflections used, etc can be held onto just as forcefully as the lines themselves. I always felt bad for tommy. he was clearly enjoying his time with Carrie, and even after the bucket falls you can see him pissed off and yelling "what the hell is this". esp since as a kid, i didn't get that most of the laughing was in her mind, so i just assumed they all WERE laughing at her, even the teacher, so he really was the only one there that cared.

[@smavtmb2196]

Carrie's mom was the real villan/ monster. I find this movie extremely sad/tragic. Carrie could have had a fantastic life had she been raised differently. Her abilities were incredible. In a different reality she could have been an X-men or Marvel superhero. Everything would have been very different if Carrie's mother wasn't a cruel twist religious lunatic, Its no suprise Carrie finally snapped. She had been bullied/traumatized by her mother her whole life and had little self worth. The school bullies only made her trauma PTSD worse pushing her over the edge.

[@imnotabotrlyimnot]

No, much the opposite, her mom is the only one who knows what's going on with Carrie and is trying to prevent tragedy from happening. I get most people don't like how she's going about it, but she's just doing the best she knows how. The mom always seems to get the bad rap in this, but the villains in this movie are the other kids.

[@jesses5463]

Carrie was the spawn of Satan. She didn't just "snap". This was inevitable after she started sinning..

[@alexraven8531]

I like that almost everyone who does the First Time Reaction of Carrie, they say John Travolta is in this? Usually if they see his first scene if they miss his name in the opening credits.

[@zydration3538]

That "ohh" at 16:56 was so all knowing lol This was a great reaction vid, one more expressive and one more like silent shock and disgust comes together really well. As far as everyone caring, I'd say that's one of the more realistic representations of HS. And both of your reactions to Carrie's "I know I don't not really" are absolutely adorable! And I'm so glad somebody pointed out the"hand thunk" sound. I've always found that amusing.

[@michaelg2529]

LOL. One last post. Here is a test to see which grandparents lie and which grandparents you can trust. Ask them if this is how kids really behaved in the 70's. The grandparents who say "Yeah, we were stupid and did stuff like that" those are the ones you can trust. AND if they also say "But don't ever let me catch you doing anything that dumb!", hug them and love them forever.

[@zydration3538]

You'll definitely prove that people's personal experiences will obviously vary, but that's hardly a groundbreaking revelation.

[@adgato75]

Carrie WAS destroying the house at the end. It was a "self-deletion" as youtube calls it

[@johnmcclure40]

"Who would buy the property?" In the book, this is actually a point which comes up. The town is basically dying after the prom. Nobody really wants to bother rebuilding, since all the kids are dead. A lot of people sell for a pittance or abandon their property and leave. Even the ones who stay are basically suffering from PTSD and don't know what to do.

[@RandomDude19868]

Piper Laurie did a great job playing the creepy mom.

[@adamgarrick3778]

I went to an all boys private school in the 90s, and by then DC had outlawed corporal punishment. The way they got around that was to have the parents come in and discipline the child in the office in front of one of the staff. I don't know anyone that happened to directly, so who knows how widespread that actually was.

[@jasonball855]

Piper Laurie (carries mom) was such a superb actress.

[@nicolesaunders2964]

Just the people who were in on the prank were laughing, but Carrie's mind made her think everyone was laughing

[@fuzzballzz36]

Tommy is definitely dead. In the book it's specified that they were galvanized steel buckets. Dropped from that height, it could definitely kill you.

[@jesses5463]

Especially where it hit him in the back of the head. That being said, one can die from simply falling down and hitting their head on the ground. Seen many street fight homicides like that as well as boxing deaths from the boxer hitting his head on the canvas.

[@kingdavid_tech]

One of the best horror classics!!!!

[@jennysutton7409]

This movie is based on the first horror book Stephen wrote and we all owe it to his wife that we get to see this because she found the book in the trash and read it and told him he needs to have it made into a book because it will be a best seller and she was right. It is one of his most selled books. Fun fact about this movie Sissy auditioned for the part but they didn't accept her because she is too pretty and in the book Carrie is a girl with buck teeth and messy hair, but when she came to try again and they turned her down again she did the look she give in the moment Carrie snaps in the prom scene and they were so scared they gave her the part haha. I think this was one of John Travolta's first movies he did. This shows you that a person can only be pushed so far before they snap which is a true statement really. The actress of Sue is also very well known in many movies and tv shows. In the books the gym teacher survived with a few others because she got them out through the vents. This book was made because Stephen saw a woman in the supermarket that was highly relligious and he thought to himself 'I wonder what it feels like to be that woman's daughter'. To be clear no one was laughing at Carrie she was just starting to brake down at that moment and her mother's words came back to her so she saw it as them all laughing. There is actually a mini series that they made where Carrie survives in the end and Sue takes her out of town. In the book Carrie used her powers to stop her mother's heart from beating and then she used them to make rocks fall from the sky and destroy the house thus killing her as well. Carrie was already slightly weak at that point because she had used so much power in the prom and when she made the car flip it took a lot out of her. Grate reaction girls as always and glad you did this one it is a classic for a reason.

[@dklounge7082]

Keep in mind that this is the first Stephen King adapted film from what is King's first novel

[@JulioLeonFandinho]

So?

[@DavidAntrobus]

@@JulioLeonFandinho I think they mean there was no template. King himself was ready to literally trash his own novel until his wife retrieved it and told him he could write it better from a female perspective. Then it was adapted by De Palma (a total Hitchcock stan) from this relatively unknown author's first novel. In other words, this had no real rules. So when we view it from our present moment, we need to take all that into account.

[@TrentRushton]

Sissy Spacek is a really good actress, I only know her in two other movies Coal Miners Daughter, and Blast From The Past.

[@KrystalAnn0688]

Tuck Everlasting ❤

[@rexwilliams7643]

I know it's lame now but the hand coming out at the end was one of the first 'shock' endings. When I saw this at the cinema in '76 the entire audience jumped out their seats when it happened, me included. Oh such an innocent time we lived in back then LOL

[@Mike-rk8px]

I saw “Carrie” the weekend that it opened in 1976. I lived in Manhattan and the lines to get into to see it were incredibly long. If you’ve ever been to a movie in NYC you know it’s not unusual for people in the audience to yell things at the screen (like if you went to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show). There were 4 big macho black men sitting in front of me and my parents, and they were totally into the movie and making comments, usually insulting the people who were mean to Carrie. At the end of the movie when the hand comes flying out of the grave, I saw pretty much everyone jump. But one of the big macho guys in front of me yelled really loud in a terrified voice: “OH SHIT!!! That bitch ain’t never gonna be right again!!!!”, and the audience burst into laughter.

[@mix6809]

Loved it, pretty much my fav reaction team. Love that you give valid criticism and not just fawning, makes your reactions very credible. Keep it up, i'll be there...

[@jdogjohnson382]

Miss collins was actually never laughing it was all in carrie's head at that point because her mom said they'd all laugh at her.

[@smcthatisme]

Yes, the short shorts were accurate for the time. Google 70's NBA players images and see how the men wore them! 😅

[@tonysaourn9220]

Can't believe this movie is almost 50 yrs old.

[@oscarvanschijndel4989]

Thanks for the video, I really appreciate. 2:18 "John Travolta in this movie?" -> actually his first, he plays Billy, the bad guy. 4:22 the little boy on the bicycle is actually the director's nephew. 5:13 these two actresses are mother and daughter in real life as well. 6:16 in the 2013 movie, the statue starts to bleed. 6:46 the book reveals the source of Carrie's powers on page 1, while the movie keeps it a mystery. 7:27 this scene was added to show that most teachers also took part in Carrie's harassment. 12:28 "What is happening?"-> in the book, Billy and Chis have a love/hate relationship. 13:05 in the book, Sue did not care much about Carrie before the period scene. Neither did the gym teacher. 15:27 sad but true. Chris mishearing Miss Collins "take your pick" for "take a pig" and dumping pig's blood on Carrie. 16:26 Carrie's father passed away when Carrie was very young. 18:17 in the book, mother believes that breasts were the result of sin, so she calls them "dirtypillows" (one word). 18:51 Sue wanted to see for herself if everything worked out fine (in all movies and musicals). In the book, Sue goes to town to watch it getting ablaze. 21:45 this is where the election gets rigged. 23:05 Sue discovers the setup but is caught by Miss Collins. In the book, the setup is not discovered. 23:39 Carrie is hallucinating. 25:17 in the book, Carrie destroys the entire town of Chamberlain, and 440 people were killed. The 2002 movie shows more details about that. 25:46 in the book, Billy and Chris get killed when they exit a roadhouse. In this movie, Chris is driving the car and tries to run her over to save her life and Billy's. In the 2002 movie, Chris tries to stop Billy from running her over. In the 2013 movie, Chris orders Billy to run Carrie down. 30:35 Sue is the only survivor in this movie and the musical versions. In the book, Sue Snell and Norma Watson both survive, writing a book each. The principal and the gym teacher also survive, quitting their jobs. In the 2002 movie, Carrie survives, and Sue, Norma and the gym teacher get interrogated by a detective. In the 2013 movie, Sue gets pregnant. If you wonder: "musical"? Here is one of many musical productions made of Carrie: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYa1i32poNmdl7M

[@roboct6]

I was a teenager when Carrie was released and saw it in the theater. What I remember most about that pivotal moment at the end of the movie is how everyone in the theater, in addition to screaming, was turned in their seats and ready to run. After a moment or two the terror then collapsed into laughter at what had just happened.

[@TheTriumphbsa]

In the 60's and thru much of the 70's, the teachers often had a big paddle on their desk as a reminder' to stay in line. As a kid it was worse (almost) to get paddled because it was done right at the teachers desk in front of everyone.

[@shahzadashrafvlogs]

I really love you guys, whenever I feel low I watch you too and really my day gets better! especially hayley with that weird faces really makes me laugh sometimes 😂

[@ParsonNathaniel]

Having grown up in the 70s and 80s, I can assure you teachers were allowed and did hit their students.

[@ParsonNathaniel]

Oh, and my prom was in the 80s and at my school you couldn't go to prom without a date... and it was enforced.

[@audioRKO]

fun fact, amy irving (sue snell) does the singing for jessica rabbit in who framed rodger rabbit

[@echo.echo08]

17:20 i often wonder about this too. like, there's no shortage of movies that feature bullying and the reaction from the audience is mainly loathing and we often cheer when the bullies get their comeuppance. when real bullies watch bully characters, do they think they're actually good because they relate to them? or do they hate on them too, but they disconnect themselves and forget they're the real life counterparts? or maybe they have self-awareness that bullying is bad but they don't care because they genuinely just enjoy seeing people get tormented?

[@michaelg2529]

Were teenagers really this bad? In the seventies, when there were no anti-bulling laws, yeah they were. I was there. Bullies were forgiven and dismissed, "boys will be boys". However, I didn't know that it was even worse for some girls. This is, sadly, not an exaggeration.

[@charlize1253]

I was in elementary school in the 70s, and saw multiple fistfights. I saw boys throw rocks at an unpopular boy. Bullying was looked at very differently back then.

[@yournamehere6002]

People are bullies online now, and guess what? All these sanctimonious people who are anti-bullying are the most bullying people out there, who want to isolate, cancel and ruin reputations if they don't conform to group think. But to them, that's not bullying.

[@jesses5463]

@@charlize1253 I've taught my kids to bully the hell out of other students. Better be the bully than the bullied. Nobody messes with my kids.

[@jennybeard6341]

In the seventies you could hit students… lol it happened to me more than once.

[@BouillaBased]

Just because the schools and the courts said they could, doesn't mean they should. One time, a teacher pushed my brother and one of my cousins against a wall. It didn't take long for word to get to my dad and my uncle who left their jobs to be there and "correct" that teacher about putting his hands on their kids.

[@jennybeard6341]

@@BouillaBased I didn’t say it was cool, just that it happened. I had an elementary Principal that liked spanking kids with a paddle. I always thought he got off on it. I still think so.

[@rextrek]

346st ....I saw this when It came out - Class of 79 ..... it was a Huge SMASH .....1st time a horror was nominated for Best Picture - Launched Sissy Spacek's career - and John Travolta - to Saturday NIght Fever

[@joanward1578]

Very short shorts were in style, drinking and driving was common, and you had to have a date to go to the prom.

[@ericb9252]

Hayley: "I haven't seen Ferris Bueller" Definitely add it to the reaction list.

[@ii-th8bm]

When this movie was released, I was an elementary school student living in the countryside of Japan, far from America, and it came as a huge shock to me. Now, it is an early work by a director who directs Al Pacino.

[@carlwkemp3]

Sissy Spacek is an incredible actress. For a completely different side of her, see Coal Miner's Daughter. It's a biopic about Loretta Lynn. For Stephen King movies, watch Christine and Cujo. They will scare you.

[@ScottTrolls]

Ah, the classics. can't wait for more of this

[@MrUndersolo]

The last scene was shot backwards on the street. That's why it feels so dreamlike...

[@Kreative_Katz]

I don't know of anybody else mentioned this in the comments, but this film was directed by Brian DePalma. One of our great and honestly underrated directors. He was known for his dramatic, slow motion, no dialogue scenes. It was his trademark. If you watch more of his movies you would appreciate his style more. The slow motion sequence in the untouchables was simply incredible.

[@sharonellis8776]

This is a great, classic movie. Can relate to how awful being bullied at school was.

[@Lledra]

Loooved your reaction~! and yeah, Carrie is an interesting movie with look and scene pacing~ To answer a few things, Yes, shorts in the 70's were indeed that short, and back then teachers could hit students. Loved hearing your after movie thoughts too! Keep on Keeping On, and thank you both so much for doing what you do~!!

[@astralnomad]

Carrie was Stephen King's first big book, and first big movie.

[@huskerchickmissy]

So as someone who was bullied in the 80s this is 100% accurate! Your period pimples cold sores being fat shopping at certain places and anything else they could target was a way to bully you! I'm so glad you all didn't have to ho through this but a lot of us did and we suffered everyday try eating your lunch in a bathroom then having your bullies find you and cornor you in a bathroom and you will see how we felt I was even pushed down a hill and had 50% percent of my face and body scraped off all cause I was black but go off! They would write things on your locker and walls, they would torment people and the adults would say that's how you got character teachers ignored it and would also bully you.

[@nicolesaunders2964]

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

[@SirJoeeee]

Yeah I’m amazed…this isn’t toward these particular reactors, but just in general I’ve noticed Gen Z’ers are extremely critical of what they consider “old” when modern day filmmaking is mostly just taking the brilliance and hard work of the old and making it less emotional, less character driven, less inventive…and calling it better. Its weird.

[@Jasonian69]

Sue tried to do something nice and ended up dooming everyone.

[@biguy617]

I like that this movie and Robocop show that Nancy Allen has range. She plays the lead bully girl in this movie and Louis in Robocop.

[@dayceem]

P.J. Soles, Norma, is TOTALLY a hoot in Halloween. William Katt, Tommy, has an actors credit list as long as a football field. And Betty Buckley, ms. Collins... do yourself a favor and listen to her sing Memory from the stage production of Cats.

[@guitarman8462]

In the book it was 2 buckets of blood & tommy dies. Then she blows up the gas tank from the school that blows the school up. She ends up walking towards her house taking out every fire highdrent in the neighborhood. Blowing up every house & gas station. Finally when she gets home , she kills her mom by stopping her heart & walks to the house where she was born.

[@NajaalGobindSingh]

Fun Fact the woman with the hat really got knocked out when she was sprayed by the hose

[@DSR299]

According to the documentary she experienced the hose-water breaking her ear drum when she was on the floor. She said it was extremely painful, but she stayed where she was and was later taken to the hospital to have her ear drum repaired. And the first slap that 'Chris' received was a Real hard slap. The director demanded it, and the sound was not fake. They said they had to do several 'takes' of that slap to get it 'just right.' The sound of the hit-slap was Real as well. What a 'trooper' - even though her character was bad. I go back to the late 1960's and in secondary school (junior high school), it was unheard of students harassing any teacher - it was just 'not done.' Unthinkable. However, what Was a danger (which I experienced) was being subjected to a real bully who wanted to fist fight me after school. He never showed up. A friend of mine tried to teach me real fast how to fist fight. I also witnessed a real fist fight in PE, and the one guy who was hit directly in the head fell down and went into convulsions. I hope the parents sued the school - although he was part of the fight as well.

[@WayneQuashie-qe7xd]

"They're all gonna laugh at you!!!!" - Margaret White