Carrie

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Carrie

R

1976

1h 38m

Horror

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In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

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Critics Consensus

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.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Oct 18, 2024

4/5

Brian De Palma’s depiction of female adolescence is extremely dubious (the opening slow-mo shower scene is beyond icky), but this is a film that fundamentally fears women.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Oct 17, 2024

5/5

It isn’t explicitly about school shootings and yet it shows you, like no other film I have ever seen, the horrifying wish-fulfilment ecstasy of such horrific acts. De Palma is the only director who could have done it.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Jan 20, 2024

Carrie is a terrifying lyrical thriller. The director, Brian De Palma, has mastered a teasing style -- a perverse mixture of comedy and horror and tension.

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Calum Cooper

In Their Own League

Oct 5, 2026

5/5

As heartwrenching and horrifying now as it was in 1976, "Carrie" is deftly crafted, enthrallingly acted, and utterly engrossed in its cautionary themes. Simply put, it’s one of the greatest horror films of all-time.

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Kyle Logan

Cultured Vultures

Feb 18, 2026

Carrie may be the first movie that showed that horror and coming-of-age stories are a match made in heaven (or hell, as it may be).

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Bryce Hanson

Horror Movie Talk

Sep 23, 2025

10/10

It walks the line between dark comedy, horror, melodrama successfully. The over the top cruelty and humiliation portrayed in the film don’t seem ridiculous... because they represent the inner distorted world that every teen experiences in high school.

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Kye

May 25, 2026

That is was this long before seeing on the big screen.

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Scott M

Oct 14, 2025

They saw my dirty pillows.

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Addison M

@AddisonMumma 1 day ago

Somebody please check Brian De Palma's hard drive.

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Dilettante 7

@RT82395896 3 days ago

Saw there was a new serial on Prime, then spotted the original next to it, thought, "Damn, that was good!" and watched it again instead. I was right. The best of the Stephen King adaptations. DePalma's best movie, despite too-long establishment shots and a weak, anticlimactic ending. Scary, powerful, empathetic. Spacek and Piper blew you away. Travolta made a great asshole. Good casting all around. One of those rare instances where the screenplay was better than the book.

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Jason L

@thx421 4 days ago

The Carrie actress did a fantastic job.

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Joshua P

@JPinch 5 days ago

Nothing will ever beat the original ☺️

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Synopsis

In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

Director: Brian De Palma
Producer: Brian De Palma, Paul Monash
Screenwriter: Lawrence D. Cohen, Stephen King
Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp., Criterion Collection, United Artists
Production Co: Redbank Films
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 3, 1976, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 27, 2015
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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