Thursday, May 23, 2024
Carrie
- Commentary: Under construction.
Can you believe I have never seen this movie all the way through, of a piece? I've watched scenes from it here and there, usually in a program about movies and/or horror movies, but I've never seen "the whole thing". I can't even remember why I thought of it this morning when I was doing some clean-up of many of my recent entries in this journal.
You don't have to look far, as it turns out, to find a very cheap, unused copy of it. It doesn't seem to be very popular, at the moment. So, I purchased it to add to my "horror" collection, on which I've been concentrating, lately. And, of course, now that I've been reminded of it, I'm very curious about it.
So far, all I've learned about it is that it isn't considered "folk-horror". In addition, I've learned more than a little about what distinguishes "folk-horror" (which I've added as a subject label over there to the left) from just plain "horror". It seems, unless I'm misunderstanding everything I've read this morning, the main differences between the two categories is that folk-horror seems to require a rural setting and attributes "evil" to the setting, rather than to people. "Carrie", of course, does not take place in a rural setting and, if I'm recalling correctly, the "evil" resides within a person, although from what little I know about the movie, it seems to me that an argument can be made for Piper Laurie, who plays Carrie's mother, being the source of the "evil" and Carrie merely being in possession of a neutral talent and a victim of domestic abuse.
I'll clean up this post, add links and think and write more (about lots of things regarding horror/folk-horror) when I've watched the film, of course, and satisfied myself, as well, that nobody considers this movie an example of folk-horror.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Sissy Spacek Carrie White Amy Irving Sue Snell William Katt Tommy Ross Nancy Allen Chris Hargensen John Travolta Billy Nolan Betty Buckley Miss Collins P. J. Soles Norma Sydney Lassick Mr. Fromm Stefan Gierasch Mr. Morton Priscilla Pointer Mrs. Snell Piper Laurie Margaret White Edie McClurg Helen Shyres
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1976
Directed by Brian de Palma.
Labels: brian-de-palma, horror3, john-travolta, nancy-allen, piper-laurie, sissy-spacek
