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psychological
1976 · R · 1h 38m
If you've got a taste for terror… take Carrie to the prom.
The cruelest thing they ever did to Carrie White was make her feel, for one evening, like she belonged.
Carrie White is a withdrawn, deeply sheltered teenager who endures relentless bullying at school and fanatical religious abuse at home. When she begins to discover she can move things with her mind, those two worlds — the cruelty of her classmates and the power quietly building inside her — are set on a collision course. Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel is one of horror's great tragedies: a slow, aching build to a prom night nobody who sees it ever quite forgets.
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Carrie White is a socially isolated teenager raised by Margaret, a fanatically devout woman who views the body, sin, and the outside world with equal terror. At school, Carrie is the girl everyone targets. When she gets her first period in the locker room shower and doesn't understand what's happening, her classmates pelt her with tampons while she screams for help. Gym teacher Miss Collins breaks it up and punishes the ringleaders — particularly Chris Hargensen — with detention. Carrie, shaken and humiliated, begins noticing things happening around her: a light shatters when she's upset, a boy falls off his bicycle when she stares at him. She discovers she is telekinetic and begins to practice in private.
Sue Snell, one of the girls who laughed in the locker room, is genuinely ashamed. She convinces her boyfriend Tommy Ross — popular, good-natured — to ask Carrie to prom as an act of real kindness. Carrie, suspicious at first, eventually accepts. For the first time, something feels like it might be okay.
Chris Hargensen, stripped of her prom privileges, is furious. She and her boyfriend Billy Nolan slaughter a pig, collect its blood in buckets, and sneak into the school to rig the prom queen ballot for Carrie. When Carrie and Tommy are crowned and take the stage, Chris pulls the rope. Two buckets of pig's blood drench Carrie completely. The gym erupts in laughter. A bucket hits Tommy in the head and kills him.
Carrie stands there, soaked and silent. Then something in her face changes. She closes the gym doors with her mind and locks everyone inside. She turns the fire hoses on the crowd, electrocuting people as the water hits sparking electrical equipment. She ignites the building. She walks out through the wreckage and moves through the town in a trance — pulling gas pumps free, starting fires — before arriving home covered in blood and in shock.
Margaret White has decided her daughter is a vessel of Satan. While Carrie soaks in the bath, Margaret stabs her in the back. Carrie tears every sharp object in the kitchen free with her mind and crucifies her mother against the wall. The house collapses. Carrie crawls into the rubble and dies holding her mother.
Sue Snell, the only survivor who never entered the gym, lays flowers at the ruins of the White house. As she reaches down, Carrie's hand shoots up from the earth and grabs her wrist. Sue wakes screaming — a nightmare. The film ends there, on that scream, and whether it was only a dream is left alone.
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