Carrie (1976)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Brian De Palma

Escritores:

Lawrence D. Cohen (writer)
Stephen King (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 noviembre 1976 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Horror | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Take Carrie to the prom. I dare you!

Plot:

A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night.

Plot Keywords:

Girl | Prom | Teacher | Student | Outsider

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

"They're all going to laugh at you"

Reparto

Sissy Spacek	...	Carrie White
Piper Laurie	...	Margaret White
Amy Irving	...	Sue Snell
William Katt	...	Tommy Ross
Betty Buckley	...	Miss Collins
Nancy Allen	...	Chris Hargensen
John Travolta	...	Billy Nolan
P.J. Soles	...	Norma Watson
Priscilla Pointer	...	Mrs. Eleanor Snell
Sydney Lassick	...	Mr. Fromm
Stefan Gierasch	...	Mr. Henry Morton
Michael Talbott	...	Freddy DeLois
Doug Cox	...	The Beak
Harry Gold	...	George Dawson
Noelle North	...	Freida Jason

También conocida como:

Carrie (Argentina) (Peru) [es]
Carrie: Extraño presentimiento (Mexico) [es]

Duración:

98 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | West Germany:16 (re-rating) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Portugal:M/16 | Finland:(Banned) (cut) (1978) | Finland:(Banned) (uncut) (1977) | Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1993) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1991) | Brazil:16 | South Korea:18 | Argentina:16 (re-rating) (2000) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Argentina:18 (re-rating) (1983) | Spain:18 | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Alberta) (2000) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Chile:18 | France:-16 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 (2000) | Norway:18 | Peru:18 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R (certificate #24688) | Ireland:18 | UK:X (original rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Culver City Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Compañía:

Redbank Films

Trivialidades:

When Carrie flips Billy's car, the interior shot shows them spinning along with it. This effect was not achieved by actually rotating the actors in a car but by simply spinning the film frame in post production.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Miss Collins is pacing in the principal's office after the shower incident, she pauses in front of his desk. Carrie's blood is visible on her shorts, making the principal uncomfortable. She then continues pacing around the office and the blood disappears. Although she is moving, her sweatshirt would not move that much as to cover all traces of the blood.

Citas:

Tommy Ross: What is the big deal?
Miss Collins: Because it is a very big deal for Carrie White, and you know it!
Tommy Ross: Well, she already said no, anyway.
Sue Snell: Yeah, well, with a little effort, you can change that.
Tommy Ross: Don't count your chickens.
Miss Collins: Just don't try!
Tommy Ross: Fine. I won't try.
Sue Snell: Hey wait a second! It's not fine! You can't order someone not to take someone to the prom.
Miss Collins: Well, you know, I can make sure that you don't hurt Carrie White anymore.
Sue Snell: We're not trying to hurt her, Miss Collins. We're trying to help her!
[...]

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Id Proxy (2009)

Banda de Sonido:

(Love is Like a) Heatwave

"They're all going to laugh at you"

Heartbreaking story, based on Stephen King's first full-length published novel, also the breakthrough film for director Brian DePalma. Sissy Spacek makes a lasting impact as Carrie White, an awkward and ostracized teenager whose classmates can't stand her merely because she's shy and "different". She is finally pushed over the edge at the climactic school prom, unleashing her telekinetic abilities in revenge.

One of the best Stephen King adaptations ever, certainly one of the saddest, most poignant, and bitter movies I've ever seen. I feel sympathy for Carrie White that I don't feel for a lot of movie characters. Overall, this story is enough to shock, appall, and move me, despite occasional goofy comic touches like the tuxedo shopping scene and the gym detention music. Spacek is both beautiful and wonderful, but it's not just her that shines - there's John Travolta, in his first major movie role, Amy Irving, P.J. Soles who would be in "Halloween" two years later, Betty Buckley, and a sexy Nancy Allen who would go on to become director Brian De Palma's wife (for a bit) as well as work for him a few more times.

Overall, it COULD have been more on the routine side but Spacek and composer Pino Donaggio's music really do help to make it stick in the memory. Of course, those 1970's styles and fashions just seem highly amusing to me now.

This marked the first time that Irving would work with her mother, actress Priscilla Pointer, and they've worked together numerous times since, with Pointer often playing the mother of Irving's character.

"Carrie" was followed by a 23-years belated sequel (or follow-up) in 1999 and the more recent (and seemingly pointless) television remake in 2002.

10/10