Carrie - 1976

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How innocent and gullible a person can become once they have crazy parents, if they are not exposed to outside world, they become feral, gullible and bullied at every corner.

This movie is all about having a crazy mother, her eccentricities, superstitious belief's and the effect on the innocent daughter.....

....it's also a work of fiction.

I saw this in the movies when I was 14. That same year I also saw Taxi Driver in the movies. No wonder I'm messed up now.

I liked that movie when I first watched it. That was so long ago. The book is so much better though.

The remake {I kid you not} is due sometime next year.

I find anything portrayed as "supernatural" to really be just plain old stupid. That included the movie. If not for the supernatural ending and actually dealing with a girl with problems, it might have been a great movie. But with all the supernatural bullcrap, it was nothing but garbage.

Back in the 1980s, when the IBM-PC first came out, I was assigned a project to build a device that would connect to the printer port and allow the user to load binary data into a Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) chip. This was called "burning" a PROM. Guess what we named the project?

That's right; "Carrie", because it burned PROMs.

My bosses didn't see the humor in it.

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I've known a few women who were very much like Margaret, and many more people who were like Chris, Billy, Sue, and the others who mocked Carrie for being "different". Most of them seemed to have died, as well.

I saw the one with Angela Bettis. It was ok. A bit too much blood for me. I think they are doing to remake of it next year.

I read the book and saw the movie. Loved both of them. It's so hard to believe that John Travolta is in it. Sissy Spacek was great and I believe that was her first movie wasn't it? I do love Piper Laurie, but I hate the character that she played (Carries Mom), but she did an excellent job! I think that if I were to choose, Piper Laurie did the best acting in the movie.

The movie was on HBO so much. Back then they showed the same things over and over and over. There were really only two scenes that scared me in it. One was when Travolta killed the pig, because I was afraid they would show it and really hurt a pig. The second was of course the scene at the end with the hand coming out of the grave.

Now I'm thinking about HBO in the 70's and going to make a thread about it.

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