Carrie (1976)
82%RT Audience Score: 77%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 2 Oscars
3 wins & 8 nominations total
Carrie is a horrifying look at supernatural powers, high school cruelty, and teen angst — and it brings us one of the most memorable and disturbing prom scenes in history
Carrie is a classic horror movie that will make you jump out of your seat and scream. From the opening scene to the final jump scare, this movie will keep you on the edge of your seat. The special effects are amazing, and the acting is top-notch. While some may find it unsettling and brutal, I found it to be a satisfyingly scary experience. However, if you’re looking for a movie with great acting, this may not be the one for you. Overall, if you’re a horror fan, you won’t want to miss this one.
Production Company(ies)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
Distributor
Criterion Collection, United Artists, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
124 N 7th St, Santa Paula, California, USA
MPAA / Certificate
R
Year of Release
1976
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Mono
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 38m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Nov 3, 1976 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 29, 1998
Genre(s)
Horror
Keyword(s)
Worldwide gross: $33,800,000
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $191,675,148
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 723
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 20,902,415
US/Canada gross: NA
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend:
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $1,800,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $10,207,552
Production budget ranking: 1,658
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $5,496,767
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $175,970,829
ROI to date (est.): 1,121%
ROI ranking: 108
Pete Postlethwaite – Giuseppe Conlon
Emma Thompson – Gareth Peirce
John Lynch – Paul Hill
Corin Redgrave – Robert Dixon
Beatie Edney – Carole Richardson
Director(s)
Brian De Palma
Writer(s)
Lawrence D. Cohen, Stephen King
Producer(s)
Brian De Palma, Paul Monash
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 2 Oscars
3 wins & 8 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (68) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (5)
It opens with an insidiously brilliant update of Psycho’s shower scene and ends with a jump scare that Hitchcock would have envied; in between, it’s merely the tenderest and most affecting movie ever made out of one of King’s novels.
September 5, 2019
Adam Nayman
The Ringer
TOP CRITIC
Carrie’s climactic empowerment is all at once the tragedy and triumph of a young woman trapped between Biblical regression and a secular coming-out.
December 12, 2017
Anton Bitel
Little White Lies
TOP CRITIC
With each new movie, [De Palma] comes closer to mastering Hitchcock’s trademark of teasing suspense and tongue-in-cheek horror.
November 3, 2015 | Rating: 3/4
Kathleen Carroll
New York Daily News
TOP CRITIC
A voluptuously shot horror movie.
October 6, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
TOP CRITIC
More superpowers from Brian De Palma, this time in high school, in a screen version of a Stephen King novel that’s become a horror classic.
June 4, 2011
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
TOP CRITIC
An exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable.
October 13, 2008
Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Such a prolonged derangement of expectation and release it feels almost pornographic.
April 25, 2022
Sean Burns
Crooked Marquee
Carrie is a punishing experience, ever ready to deliver some inconceivable blow against the audience just after the director has deceived us into thinking both Carrie and the audience were safe.
February 14, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
The editing at the conclusion is spectacularly effective, riddled with slow motion, split frames, monochromatic imagery, the cutting out of sounds, and, finally, screams.
August 27, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
Brian de Palma is destined to be a great American director.
October 28, 2019
Danielle Spencer
Los Angeles Free Press
Still disturbing, it still creeps me out and makes me dread it. It’s unsettling, incredibly brutal, and satisfying by the end.
October 24, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
Brandon Collins
Medium Popcorn
The acting takes me out of the movie. There’s just some weird stuff going on here…
October 24, 2019 | Rating: 2/5
Justin Brown
Medium Popcorn…
Plot
It’s nearing the end of the school year. High school senior Carrie White is a social outcast, largely due to being unwise to the ways of the world based on her upbringing. Her mother, Margaret White, is a religious fanatic, her extreme views primarily targeted against sex, which she believes is a sin. She even believes natural associated processes such as menstruation are a sin, about which she has refused to mention to Carrie. Mrs. White’s beliefs were taken to that extreme largely because of her own failed marriage and her husband Ralph long ago having run off with another woman. The only adult authority figure who tries to help Carrie with her life is her phys ed teacher, Miss Collins, who is nonetheless warned not to get too close to go against how Mrs. White chooses to raise Carrie, Mrs. White whose beliefs are well known in the community. An impromptu event that happens among Carrie’s phys ed classmates against her leads to her classmates being punished. One of those students, self absorbed Chris Hargensen, vows revenge against Carrie for that punishment, the method of the revenge associated to the phys ed class incident. Another student however, the popular Sue Snell, begins to feel sorry for Carrie. In wanting to help her get out of her shell, Sue asks her boyfriend, the equally popular Tommy Ross, to take Carrie to the senior prom instead of her. This move does not sit well with Mrs. White, who in her extreme view believes Carrie will fall prey to sin. All these competing issues lead to Carrie deciding on an impulse to use a newfound skill to free herself from the figurative chains that have long been placed around her, with tragic consequences.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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