Carrie

...A Nightmare on Elm Street (also the subject of a dreaded remake due next year), and Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie. Zombie Verite: If the living dead have to make an appearance in modern scary movies, they can't...

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"Something's wrong, like, more than you being female. " -Emily Perkins, Ginger Snaps There are horrors aplenty in Brian De Palma's Carrie, but none quite as discomforting as the opening sequence, in which Sissy Spacek, playing the doomed...

In this article: Ginger Snaps, Sissy Spacek, Karen Walton, Suicide, Brian De Palma, Diablo Cody, Emily Perkins, and David Cronenberg

...does bookish Jews. This piling-on, no-way-out-but-down narrative strategy has worked for brilliant thriller-makers like Brian De Palma in "Carrie" and "Blow Out" or inspired provocateurs like Luis Bunuel. It even worked for the Coen Brothers...

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...about a high-school reject with some pretty scary powers. Though the blood-soaked prom queen scene is the stuff of pop legend, I contend that Carrie's crazed, Bible-beating mother is one of the most blood-chilling characters ever seen. A...

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DAMIEN MOST FEARED: The name of the young star of the Omen films is not a popular choice for Brits. Relevant offers Damien, Myra and Carrie are Britain's most feared and mistrusted names, due to superstitious and dark associations. A...

In this article: Respondent, Myra Hindley, Jesus Christ, Warner Home Video, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Sissy Spacek, and The Omen

...of teen-oriented horror pictures. But there is a much more savage -- and substantial -- beast lurking beneath. Not since Brian De Palma's Carrie has a horror movie so effectively exploited the genre as a metaphor for adolescent angst,...

In this article: Jennifer's Body, Jane Campion, Diablo Cody, Bright Star, John Keats, Che, Oscar, and Ben Whishaw

It's quite the coup for the HBO drama. Spacek has a whopping six Academy Award nominations for her memorable roles in films such as "Carrie," "Crimes of the Heart," and "In the Bedroom," and she won the Best Actress statuette for her...

In this article: Sissy Spacek, Big Love, HBO, Oscar, Crimes of the Heart, Los Angeles Times, Loretta Lynn, Jolean Wejbe, and Matt Ross

...name a single movie like "Jennifer's Body" - a scary, witty film more closely aligned with the pig-blood pranks of Brian De Palma's "Carrie" than wall-to-wall gore. For Cody this was great news, revealing an opportunity to re-educate a...

In this article: Diablo Cody, Jennifer's Body, Karyn Kusama, Megan Fox, Rita Mae Brown, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween II, Academy Award, and Laurie Strode

...my son is," Lance wanly tells the school principal. He's not kidding. Outside of those mean girls tormenting Sissy Spacek in "Carrie," Kyle might be the most repellent teenager in movie history, and Goldthwait is unsparing in the way he...

In this article: Sleeping Dogs Lie, Bobcat Goldthwait, Robin Williams, World's Greatest Dad, Jacko, and Sissy Spacek

...Center in Minneapolis, sometime in the mid-'80s. I've never forgotten it. Best scream therapy? Seeing "Jaws" in the summer of 1975 and "Carrie" in the fall of 1976, when my high school-addled hormones were screaming every second of every...

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