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Cohen</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Pino Donaggio</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Paul Monasch</B></div> <div> <B>Director of Photography..Mario Tosi</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Wesley Dawn</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Gregory M. Auer</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Novel by Stephen King</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Carrie...........Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter, JFK, The River)</B></div> <div> <B>Sue Sorell.......Amy Irving (The Fury, Turn of the Screw, Yentl)</B></div> <div> <B>Tommy Ross.......William Katt (House & IV, Last Call, Naked Obsession)</B></div> <div> <B>Chris Hargenson..Nancy Allen (Animal House, Ghost in the Machine)</B></div> <div> <B>Billy Nolan......John Travolta (The Devil's Rain, Grease, Staying Alive)</B></div> <div> <B>Margaret White...Piper Laurie* (Distortions, Ruby, Trauma, Twin Peaks)</B></div> <div> <B>Miss Collins.....Betty Buckley (Eight is Enough-TV,Frantic,Wild Thing)</B></div> <div> <B>Norma............P.J. Soles (Alienator, B.O.R.N., Halloween, Stripes)</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Fromm........Sydney Lassick (Silent Madness, Sonny Boy, The Unseen)</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Morton.......Stephen Gierasch (Jack the Bear, Jeremiah Johnson)</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Snell.......Priscilla Pointer (Disturbed, Rumpelstiltskin)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Brian DePalma transcends the paradigms of modern horror repeatedly in Carrie, delivering in the title character a tragic victim/monster in the tradition of the early Frankenstein and Werewolf films. Innocently cursed with a terrible power brought out only in justifiable rage, Carrie is able to draw the viewers sympathy until the very end, even if it is clear from the point at which her mother calls her a witch, that she will have to go down with her antagonists. DePalma manages the trick of controlling parallel conflicts, those of Carrie and her schoolmates and Carrie and her mother, while constantly turning up the suspense on both fronts, juggling buckets of symbols, social criticism, sexual repression, religious fanaticism. The performances are compelling - look at the cast! - particularly Sissy Spacek, who belatedly received the Oscar she earned here in the lame main stream </B><I><B>Coal Miner's Daughter</B></I><B> and Piper Laurie, who were both nominated for Oscars for this film. The final scene is one of the great tag-shocks of all time, and with it DePalma breaks with the horror tradition of closure to indicate that the story doesn't end here, for all over the world cruel societies are witch-hunting their own Carries. Serves 'em right if they mistakenly tangle with a real witch for a change. Stephen King's infatuation with esp powers may seem very 70's (</B><I><B>The Dead Zone, Fire Starter, The Shining</B></I><B>) but after two decades Carrie remains a good watch, uh, witch -watch.  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Carrie's first menstruation in the girls' shower presents yet another opportunity for the girls at her high school to torment her. After a meeting with the cold principal, Carrie is sent home and as she heads off, a boy who had teased her wipes out on his bike. At home, the frightening religious fanatic Mrs. White blasts Carrie for her impurity and as the frightened and frustrated girl is punished, a mirror breaks. At school, however, the joke's on the mean girls as the gym teacher takes the opportunity to punish the girls by making them stay after school for double sessions. The alternative? Miss the prom! Petty and vicious Chris refuses and thus is robbed of the highlight of her young life, all this she blames on Carrie White and swears revenge. She convinces her boyfriend Billy to help her get even with the friendless Carrie. While Carrie researches parapsychological phenomena in the library, Sue, one of three human beings in her town, has convinced her handsome boyfriend Tommy to ask the unpopular Carrie to accompany him to the prom. After initially refusing, Carrie accepts at the urging of the gym teacher. Meanwhile, Billy, Chris, and buddy Tommy slaughter a pig. Back at the White house, things are going on pretty much as usual as Carrie is locked into the closet again with only the semblance of the tortured Saint Sebastian to contemplate. Mother is a zealous Christian who is horrified that Carrie would want to go to the prom. "First blood and then boys" she says, scolding Carrie because her dress doesn't cover her "dirty pillows" (emerging breasts). Mother laments that she should have killed herself when Carrie's father "put it in" her, and flays herself for having liked it. When Carrie starts to show telekinetic abilities, mother announces that none may suffer a witch to live. While Carrie uses her powers to shut her mother up, Chris, Bill, and Freddy are busy rigging the "Prom Queen and King" judging. The prom develops nicely with the support of the three human beings, Carrie begins to enjoy herself. Carrie and Tommy are named Queen and King of the prom (thanks to Billy and Freddy) and as the reign on the stage, a bucket of pig's blood drenches them both, knocking Tommy unconscious. Well, when things go badly at the prom, it begins to look like mother was right, and after settling a few hundred accounts by turning the gym into hell on earth, Carrie sublimely accepts the consequences. </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>