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Tagline: You were warned never to push Carrie to the limits. Now you must face the evil consequences.

Carrie is a 98-minute coming-of-age horror story, pretty much a fusion of the minds of writer Stephen King and director Brian de Palma. Sissy Spacek played the role of Carrie White, and she did her job well. This role earned her an Oscar nomination (a first-time Best Actress nomination for a horror film).

This movie is more than just the story of a girl who is experiencing the fits of adolescence for the first time while her classmates make it even harder by always mocking her. Carrie is a reclusive girl, all the more isolated, as a result of being raised by her ultra-conservative dysfunctional mom. What the girls didn’t know though is that Carrie also has telekinetic powers and the horror started when the girls slowly die one by one. I can say that the cinematography was exceptional, ahead of its time (1976). The horror scenes were somewhat satisfactory, the technical stuff were okay. (Did Sissy Spacek have a full frontal nudity in this movie?? See the film to answer this question).