Today’s movie is a horror film with scenes that happen on May 27. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
CARRIE
Carrie White is bullied at school and abused at home by her single Mom. When her delayed menarche happens at school, the naïve Carrie thinks she is bleeding to death and is taunted by other girls, including Sue Snell and Chris Hargensen. Although Chris remains unrepentant about her treatment of Carrie, even after being barred from attending the prom, Sue has a change of heart and convinces a classmate, Tommy Ross to invite Carrie to the prom. Carrie begins to suspect she might have psychic powers. Chris and her boyfriend Billy plant a bucket of pig’s blood above the stage in the gym where the prom is to be held. The prom is held on May 27, 1979 [49:39 to 1:33:33]. Carrie eventually starts to enjoy the prom, dancing with Tommy and getting a kiss from him. Then the pair is elected prom king and queen (as secretly arranged by Chris and Billy as part of their plan of revenge). Sue, who didn’t have a date, snuck into the prom to make sure things go well for Carrie. She discovers Chris and Billy’s plot, but is ejected before she can stop it. After being crowned on the stage, Chris dumps the bucket on the couple, knocking Tommy out and drenching Carrie in blood. This causes her to fly into a rage where Carrie uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to seal the room and set the building on fire, killing many of the prom goers who had previously taunted her. Carrie kills Billy and Chris on her way back home from the burning high school gym. At home her mother tells Carrie she is the product of marital rape and then tries to kill her, but Carrie kills her Mom and collapses the house on both of them. Sue later has nightmares about what happened.
Carrie by Stephen King (Doubleday, New York, 1974) at page 87 gives the date.
Producer - Paul Monash
Director - Brian De Palma
Screenwriter - Lawrence D. Cohen
Awards – Sissy Spacek was nominated for the Best Actress and Piper Laurie for the Best Supporting Actress Oscars at the 49th Academy Awards
Runtime – 1 hour 38 minutes
Released – November 3, 1976
Starring -
Sissy Spacek as Carrie White
Piper Laurie as Margaret White
Amy Irving as Sue Snell
William Katt as Tommy Ross
Betty Buckley as Miss Collins
Nancy Allen as Chris Hargensen
John Travolta as Billy Nolan
P. J. Soles as Norma Watson
Sydney Lassick as Mr. Fromm
Stefan Gierasch as Mr. Morton
Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Snell
Harry Gold as George Dawson
Noelle North as Frieda Jason
Michael Talbott as Freddy DeLois
Edie McClurg as Helen Shyres
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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