Review #241: Carrie (1976)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #95: Carrie (1976) I'd only ever seen the 2013 remake, and didn't have strong feelings about it, but I'm pretty sure I knew the plot of this movie even before that. This movie definitely felt like it held up pretty well, and actually manages to circumvent a lot of common problems I've been having with numerous older films this month. The film follows Carrie White, a shy teenage girl who has been struggling through her high school social life due to a very sheltered and religiously-extreme upbringing. But she discovers that she has telekinetic powers right around the time a group of bullies decide to assault her at the Senior Prom, so one way or another it all comes to a head. I just want to say: it has been shocking how many movies this month seem to have been made under the assumption that the only way to write a story is to pad out the first 45 minutes with a whole lot ...