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There are few things more awkward in this World than watching the opening credits of Carrie in the presence of your parents. Any teenage boy who has had to endure such a scenario will know just how uncomfortable it is. You just don’t know where to look! Worse still, if you’re in the boat that I was in when I first sat down to watch it, you’ve got the added dilemma of pretending that you’re enjoying it – but not too much – so as not to arouse suspicious glares from your parents who, despite your love of Abba and Duran Duran, are very much in the dark about your choices in life. I’m not sure if that was…

It would take literally nothing away from this film to show the opening shower scene without full frontal nudity of characters who are supposed to be teenagers. The pedophilic gaze in so much of cinema is ignored by almost every critic, so ingrained in our media is this idea that it's okay to sexualize young women. This is not to say that teenagers themselves should be ignorant of or never understand themselves sexually, nor that no media should acknowledge teenage sexuality. It's to say that there is a way to show it that doesn't pander to a male and/or pedophilic gaze.

This film does avoid that after those opening moments, but that only proves how unnecessary they were. The cruelty…

Damn bro, that Bitch crazy. A little while ago i reviewed Misery and I didn't hold back on how much I hated it as an adaptation. My complaints were that the changes to the source material didn't offer anything unique, and just deflated the tension that was so great in the book. I think that changes in an adaptation are good, and should be encouraged. I would rather have a filmmaker's interpretation/version of the story than just have a reiteration of a story that has already been told. An adaptation should carry the heart, and intent of the source material. Because of this I would rather have a safe adaptation than one that radically changes the story, even if my…

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“Everyone isn't bad, Mama! Everything isn't a sin!”

I read the book years ago and thought it was okay, so I’ve never bothered with the movie. I actually really enjoyed this, a really good adaptation of King’s prose. De Palma does a great job of adapting a book that isn’t the most conventional. It’s a horror film that’s wrapped in layers of heartbreaking tragedy. It’s almost like a horror version of the usual Cinderella tale.  

The film really does a great job of that slow building tension throughout, there’s a real sense of inevitability and foreboding to the character of Carrie. It’s first…

As I rewatched Carrie, for the umpteenth time, I thought about the audience shock value of the final act. If you were unfamiliar with Stephen King's novel, who at that time was a relative newcomer to the literary world, you had no idea what to expect. The film supplies subtle hints, but the end is absolute batshit. Now, 45 years later, audiences aren't afforded the same shock value; we're both aware of the story and desensitized from decades of horror classics. Carrie withstands the test of time because it's a well-crafted film, but imagine viewing this unaware in 1976. What a time to be alive.

Consider this, Chris hated Carrie so much she was going to run her over with…