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[[File:Carrie_poster.jpg|frame|Carrie White -- making people [[Beware the Nice Ones|afraid]] to pick on [[Shrinking Violet|"that girl"]] since 1974.]]

 

{{quote|''A novel of a girl possessed of a terrifying power.''}}

 

 

In the meantime, Sue Snell (one of Carrie and Chris' classmates) feels that what she and her friends did to Carrie was wrong and asks her athlete boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to take Carrie to the prom as a form of atonement. Chris finds out about this and sees an opening for one of the greatest pranks in school history: she and her friends will rig the ballots for prom queen so that Carrie wins, then dump a bucket of pig's blood on her head in front of the entire senior class, humiliating her on the best night of her life.

[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|This goes about as well as one would expect it to.]]

 

 

* ''[[The Rage: Carrie 2]]'' was a sequel made in 1999. It has [[The Rage: Carrie 2|its own page]].

* A [[Made for TV Movie|made-for-TV]] [[Remake]] was made in 2002, written by [[Bryan Fuller]] ([[Heroes (TV series)|yes]], ''[[Pushing Daisies|that]]'' [[Dead Like Me|Bryan]] [[Wonderfalls|Fuller]]) and starring [[Angela Bettis]] in the title role. It stayed closer to King's novel than the 1976 film did -- with the exception of the ending, which was [[Pilot Movie|meant to lead into an NBC series]] that never came about. Mirroring the novel's [[Scrapbook Story|use of after-the-fact articles]] to tell its story, most of the film takes place in flashbacks, with the survivors of Carrie's rampage being interviewed by the police. It is notable for [[Retroactive Recognition|an early appearance]] by [[Lost|Emilie]] [[Roswell|de]] [[The Hills Have Eyes|Ravin]], who plays Chris. Despite its obvious low budget, [[Conspicuous CG]], and radically altered ending, this film has its share of fans, and it's not unheard of to find people (particularly younger fans and those who have read the book) who prefer it over the 1976 film.

 

 

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* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Carrie, although even in the book [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]. To a lesser extent, Margaret in both films.

* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Norma in the original film. This was due to DePalma enjoying PJ Soles's performance and thus rewriting her role to give her more screen time. Ditto for Tina in the 2002 film. Neither were actually evil in the book.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: An entire fan-made musical theater production was made as a [[Affectionate Parody|loving parody]] of the original film, entitled ''[http://www.youtube.com/user/stillsurviving007#p/u Scarrie!]''. Carrie was [[Crosscast Role|played by a man]], as was her mother, who also had five o'clock shadow. Lampshade hangings, fourth wall breaking, and the play ended with the moral of the story being "[[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|Chris should have just killed that stupid bitch, and went to the prom!]]", as the dead sing a cheerful song pointing out that [[Alternative Character Interpretation|this was all Sue's fault]].

** [http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/84 This.]

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: In the remake, this is the only way anybody is able to get out of the gym once Carrie locks the doors.

* [[The Alleged Car]]: The original book has Billy driving a rusty, beat-up, jacked-in-the-back '61 Chevy Biscayne with a broken headlight. The film, fortunately, upgrades him to something [[Cool Car|much cooler]].

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Chris and Norma in the original, and Chris (again) and Tina in the remake.

** Lampshaded in the parody ''Scarrie!'':

{{quote|'''Chris:''' "The Carrie Whites of the world aren't meant to go out with the Tommy Rosses of the world! For if God had wanted that, he would have given her a kick-ass bod, and long hair, that ''layers easily'' and '''DANCES IN THE WIND!!'''"}}

* [[Ballroom Blitz]]

* [[Beautiful All Along]]

** In the book, there is a flashback from Margaret, involving her own grandmother (Carrie's great-grandmother). The woman would display her telekinesis and cackle madly. She'd also gone completely senile at an early age before dying of a heart attack. It's shown that she was a pretty frightening figure for Margaret to grow up with, which is probably why she ended up being a crazy religious fanatic. It's subtle but gives her a very slight [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] view.

* [[Buried Alive]]: {{spoiler|Carrie in Sue's nightmare at the end of the original film.}}

* [[Censor Steam]]: The television edit put in a ''ton'' of CGI steam to hide all the nudity in the opening five minutes.

* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: In the original film, most of the religious iconography that shows up in Margaret's house is explicitly Catholic.

* [[Cool Car]]: Billy, Chris' boyfriend, drives a 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle. {{spoiler|[[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Shame that Carrie blows it up.]]}}

** In the remake, Billy drives a Cool Truck. {{spoiler|It suffers a similar fate -- Carrie slams it against a tree. Roof first.}}

** And like Saint Sebastian, she experiences religious ecstasy during her death. Saint Sebastian, who according to legend was a very handsome young man, is something of an unofficial sex symbol in the Catholic Church (especially among closeted gay men). {{spoiler|The movie uses this to show how Carrie's mother has literally channeled her sex drive into religious devotion - or in this case, Saint Sebastian}}.

* [[Deadly Prank]]: It ends up being this for almost the entire high school. In the remake, Tommy is killed when the bucket falls on his head before Carrie's revenge even starts; in the book (and possibly the movie), he's only knocked unconscious, but dies with the rest of the students in the fire.

{{quote|''The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will never be the same. It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be.''}}

* [[The End - or Is It?]]: The final scene, where Sue {{spoiler|is grabbed by Carrie's arm coming out of the ground while laying flowers at the ashes of her house. Thankfully, it turns out to be [[All Just a Dream]].}} This shock ending wound up having a major influence on many pioneering [[Slasher Movie|Slasher Movies]], particularly ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]''.

* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: {{spoiler|Billy's Chevelle}} explodes soon after rolling over. Justified, though, in that it's heavily implied that Carrie caused the car to blow up.

* [[Evil Matriarch]]

* [[A Minor Kidroduction]]: The original film would have started out like this had the special effects necessary for the scene worked properly. They didn't, and so the scene was scrapped. The remake, thanks to the advance of CGI, was able to include this scene, albeit not at the very beginning.

* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Although, they didn't know she was a monster until it was too late.

** In the novel: {{spoiler|Margaret stabs Carrie, then Carrie kills Margaret by stopping her heart. Carrie eventually dies from shock, blood loss, and overuse of her power in finishing off her final tormentor, Chris Hargensen.}}

** In the original movie: {{spoiler|Margaret stabs Carrie, Carrie uses Margaret's knives to [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|crucify her]], and then Carrie is finished off by a burning, collapsing house, along with shock, blood loss, and general physical overload.}}

'''Carrie:''' IT'S ''CARRIE!''}}

* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|In the remake.}}

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Sue. Granted, if she hadn't participated in humiliating Carrie in the shower, Carrie would have still been mistreated, but Sue's actions made her feel guilty enough to send Tommy to ask her to the prom, which is what set into motion everything that followed.

* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Judging by accounts of what she was like on-set, Sissy Spacek was one of these. When trying to come up with a good fake blood, Sissy said she'd be willing to just use ''actual'' blood (they chose to use red corn syrup instead). Plus, when they were planning on having a stunt double perform the scene where Carrie {{spoiler|reaches out of the ground to grab Sue's arm}}, Sissy insisted on doing the scene herself because she wanted to experience {{spoiler|being [[Buried Alive]]}}.

* [[Offing the Offspring]]: Margaret White is convinced her daughter's telekinesis is a sign of demonic possession. Things come to a head after the fateful prom.

* [[Only in Florida]]: {{spoiler|From the remake: where else would a girl with [[Psychic Powers]] who [[Faking the Dead|faked her death]] run and hide in? The one place where such a thing would pass for "normal."}}

* [[Seventies Hair]]

* [[Sex Is Evil]]: Margaret thinks all sex, even within marriage, is immoral and sinful.

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: When Carrie gets dressed up for the prom, both Tommy and the narrator say she's beautiful. Miss Desjardin gets this as well when she turns up at the prom. Carrie thinks she looks as though she's attending the prom instead of just chaperoning.

* [[Shout-Out]]: The original, being directed by noted [[Alfred Hitchcock]] fan Brian DePalma, has tons of shout-outs to Hitchcock's movies. The two biggest ones are probably the use of the "shower" music from ''[[Psycho]]'', and the fact that the school is renamed Bates High School.

 

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