Carrie!
Went all the way through the archives to mid 2006 and didn't find a thing about CARRIE, definitely a horror masterpiece from the mid 70's! I originally saw this great movie in November of December of...
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The first time I ever read a Stephen King novel was over Memorial Day weekend in 1975, and it was a paperback version of "Carrie." My grandmother received the hardcover "Salem's Lot" for Christmas...
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Remember that great cover? The face of a child embossed in black, with a single red drop of blood dripping from its mouth? That's a terrific cover. I still have a copy of that and just loaned it to my...
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John Travolta's first film was Carrie, released 11-3-76; Saturday Night Fever released 12-17-77.
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Well, I haven't checked ('cause I might be wrong!) but I assume that Travolta's tiny bit in THE DEVIL'S RAIN came before CARRIE.
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blackbiped wrote: I'm sure CARRIE drove people into the bookstores to check out the original novel along with King's other works... I think "Salem's Lot" may have had as much to do with setting up the...
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Omega Man wrote: At the beginning of my freshman year of H.S., I distinctly recall it seeming like virtually every other girl in the school was toting around a paperback copy of Carrie -- before the...
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CARRIE is a really, really great horror film, and it holds up magnificently. The figure of Saint Sebastian is just about the most terrifying prop in cinema history to me. Something about the eyes and...
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The first time I saw this was around 1982, when it was on television. I was only 9 years old and was watching it in my bedroom on a b/w 12" set. My parents let me watch it because it was edited for...
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Perhaps someone can answer this: When the three guys are getting their outfits for the prom, there's a sequence where the voices are sped up. Anyone know why this happens?
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It's because the shot dragged on too long and DePalma couldn't do any hard cuts without them looking obvious. The speeded-up voices don't gel that well with the rest of the film, but they certainly...
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Mark Hodgson wrote: [I went to see it for the first time and an annoying woman was behind me telling her friend what to look for. She had already seen it.] Who are these people? I saw FRIDAY THE 13TH...
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Um, you kinda just did the same thing the guy at dinner did, albeit across a longer timeline...
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capmonte wrote: Oops. Well I didn't think I'd need a spoiler tag for that one... Neither did he... neither did he...
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Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: capmonte wrote: Oops. Well I didn't think I'd need a spoiler tag for that one... Neither did he... neither did he... Touche
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capmonte wrote: Jeffrey Allen Rydell wrote: capmonte wrote: Oops. Well I didn't think I'd need a spoiler tag for that one... Neither did he... neither did he... Touche (understand that I...Read More
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Having read the book again, I've made the following observations (SPOILERS ahead folks!) Its interesting how the film makes additional victims for Carrie. The gym teacher (called Miss Desjardin in the...
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