The Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread

Throwaway line I quote all the time from Carrie: "Get 'er done--get 'er done."

― clemenza, Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:59 PM (1 minute ago)

there is this larry fellow that fixes cable boxes that might really ruin this for you

(SPOILER) Friday the 13th's ending in the boat is a straight rip off of Carrie then?

As fun and shocking as some of these trick endings can be in the moment, they tend to severely diminish my opinion of the movies in question. I always feel like the filmmaker didn't care enough to give us a legit ending.

Friday the 13th has a legit ending! and then an awesome one tacked on.

lol jjj I got xposted out of posting "thank you, Larry the Cable Guy"

- They killed multiple pigs, which is how they had enough to fill buckets (whether this is made clear in the movie or not, I just happen to know that that's how they did it).

- My bucket, sadly, was filled with ice cold, Minnesota artesian well water.

- I also wore my mom's sun dress a few times, but I'm pretty sure I never did it while playing Carrie. THAT is unfortunate, and I really need to rectify this mistake.

Yeah, there were actually two buckets in the book, right?

"sadly" -- i'm relieved to hear that!

Two buckets to paradise

Movie Carrie was maybe a little unpleasant, but that wasn't really her fault.

I love a lot of things about this movie. I love that the plot centers on women as active players (not victims or allegories for the decline of agency in modern society or whatever). I love Carrie's telekinetic powers as metaphor for girls'/women's sexuality (not scary or evil at all, but warped and twisted into something scary and evil by people who don't/won't understand what's going on). I love that Carrie burns the prom down around everybody's ears because really, who hasn't wanted to burn the prom down around everybody's ears at some point in time. It's a revenge story that doesn't require a protracted rape scene at the beginning to feel effective and cathartic. I like how the opening scene is played as a trite sexy shower scene and then DePalma turns that tired trope inside out.

And then I love the actors and Piper Laurie in her OTT greatness and the ten million awesomely quotable lines and PJ Soles' hat and Amy Irving's hair and how pretty Carrie looked at the prom and how Billy went from Golden Prom God to dumb looking idiot who got knocked out by a bucket like a total dope.

the teacher doesn't deserve to get offed imo. Carrie's imagining that she's laughing at her i mean there's no way that *that* teacher is laughing after all she's tried to do for her. also in the book Tommie dies iirc?

That first line is a huuuuuuuuuge xpost to the last thing posted before I started my Why I Love Carrie magnun opus.

Betty Buckley should have gone on to a great career; she got Eight Is Enough instead (which wasn't bad).

whatever happened to Amy Irving?

The blood works in the context of the film, I guess, but I can't imagine any teen short of a budding serial killer would consider dumping buckets of blood on anyone. Because first you need to get the blood, and teens are lazy. Also, you know, germs and stuff. Nowadays they'd worry about a lawsuit.

Carrie is practically perfect and does so many things so well, it's one of the movies I always recommend when people tell me they don't like horror as a genre. My #2. My wife and I went as Carrie and Tommy Ross to a Halloween work party one year. We dumped the bucket of fake blood over her in the company bathroom - her coworkers were, um, shocked at her level of commitment to the costume.

xp

xpost After she divorced Spielberg ... omerta.

Loving this:

(Trying to watch Possession on youtube, bored to tears at 40 minute mark)

―Josh in Chicago,Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:34 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(OK, I admire Possession for its conviction. That movie is weird and fucked up.)

―Josh in Chicago,Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:53 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Amy nabbed herself a rich husband. (She's very good in Crossing Delancey.)

Tommy dies in the movie, too. Everybody dies in the movie except Sue Snell, because she was banned from the prom and didn't participate in the pig blood prank. Her punishment for being popular but not a completely terrible person is to be the only surviving member of her high school class.

The blood works in the context of the film, I guess, but I can't imagine any teen short of a budding serial killer would consider dumping buckets of blood on anyone.

have you never been around farm kids

the teacher doesn't deserve to get offed imo

Miss Collins' death is the one that really snaps the rest of the movie's take on revenge into a much more tragic light.

Carrie was the talk of my 8th-grade class, but I didn't see it for another 20 years. It's good.

Didn't Betty Buckley do a bunch of successful Lloyd Webber horseshit on stage?

My most-quoted line, for some reason:

"Billy Nolan. Billy Nolan."

(for super-fans only)

Yeah, Carrie totally loses control. it's more than just revenge, it's supernova.

xpost well isn't he the lucky one?

also in the book Tommie dies iirc?

p. sure he dies in the movie what with the fire and the locked doors and the hey, i'm unconscious (glaven)

it's blood because menstruation & Catholicism, duh.

Oh, man, that tracking shot up the rope when Amy Irving spies it and figures out what's going on. <3 DePalma.

Totally! And Chris's pretty blatantly sexual response to what she's about to do.

mm i didn't know they all die but aye maybe so. i like how Travolta and co *get away* THEN get killed. massive lurid revenge thrils there.

how Billy went from Golden Prom God to dumb looking idiot who got knocked out by a bucket like a total dope.

Second only to the moment in Halloween 2 when the Last Starfighter slips in blood and brains himself towards the end of the film. There should really be more self-dispatched protagonists in horror films.

Carrie is p much a 'demo' version of Blow Out IMO. all the flashy/techy stuff he was getting good at in Carrie were mindblowingly perfected in BO.

The blood works in the context of the film, I guess, but I can't imagine any teen short of a budding serial killer would consider dumping buckets of blood on anyone. Because first you need to get the blood, and teens are lazy. Also, you know, germs and stuff. Nowadays they'd worry about a lawsuit.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:09 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe the teens in Chicago are different, sonny, but in my rural high school some assholes flayed a deer and left its bloody carcass in the hallway as a senior prank

xpost Minus about 90 percent of the emotional punch.

yeah Blowout is totally fucking boring

And the gym teacher doesn't deserve to die (none of them do, really) but she's still complacent in the system that made Carrie an outcast: "Look at your eyes! A little mascara to bring it out. Your lips. Try some lipstick? You have nice, pretty lips. And your cheekbones. Look at your hair. Just put it up a little. Maybe add a little curl. What do you think?"

There's the oft-told story about how some quirk in scheduling (I don't remember what) gave DePalma like an entire year to do nothing but knock around the studio lot and dream up cool ways to shoot scenes for Carrie. All that rumination paid off, obviously.

yeah that's a great idea; self-dispatched protagonists. have you ever seen OUT OF SIGHT? best self-dispatchment scene of all time right near the end.

hadn't heard that. makes sense. didn't they shoot casting / auditions for Star Wars and Carrie the same week at the same time?

prefer Blow Out to Carrie cuz it's not about teenagers.

Watching the prom scene on YouTube now, I forgot Buckley spots Irving just as the latter is about to prevent the whole thing. God, this movie.

And to think, Stephen King dumped his manuscript in the trash, and his wife found it and made him submit it to publishers.

xp both are great in their own ways. The recent Criterion transfer of Blow Out is A+.

Plus, at the beginning of the movie, the gym teacher is kind of a jerk to Carrie, too. All the girls (incl. Sue Snell, so not a totally sympathetic character) are throwing feminine hygiene products at Carrie and Miss Collins's first instinct is to slap Carrie and tell her to grow up and take care of her business.

xp yes! And pulls her out of the gym and locks her out, which is the only reason she doesn't die.

I love Carrie - haven't seen it in in age, but the book was one of the first SK novels I read and I was *right* slap bang in the middle of puberty and goddamn that thing spoke to me like nothing else I read at that time. Like maybe the bucket of pig's blood seems far fetched but to me it felt like it could have happened at my school, I could have told you exactly which kids would have done it...that malicious desire to humiliate beyond all measure of human decency really really hit home.

but back to the movie: fkn Sissy Spacek is the greatest.

We interrupt this regularly scheduled discussion for some Breaking News: Martha Marcy director helming TV remake of The Exorcist.

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xp ooh yeah? i have to get that. such an emo film though. saddest score ever by Pino Dinaggio :/

I think one of the most depressing phrases in the English language is "TV remake of [classic horror film]."

Gah, my work is busy so I'm having trouble keeping up. Short story: carl a. OTM re why Carrie is awesome.

Underrated Carrie quotes for literally every occasion:

Billy Nolan. Billy Nolan.
Creepy Carrie, Creepy Carrie! [bicycle crash] Aaaargh!
Carrie White, you eat shit.

Like I will be walking to work and say to myself "Billy Nolan."

I'm reading quotes from the movie and re: using pig's blood (aside from that being particularly humiliating - VG OTM re: desire to humiliate beyond all measure), you've not only got the whole movie starting with Carrie getting her period, but also Margaret White door-to-door prosthelytizing to Sue Snell's mom and "Spreading the gospel of God's salvation through Christ's blood." So whoever said sex and religion upthread, yes.

Like I will be walking to work and say to myself "Billy Nolan."

LOL let's always be friends