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Carrie

  • Dir: Brian De Palma

  • USA, 1976, 98minmins

  • Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving

The first screen adaptation of Stephen King’s work transforms his debut novel into one the most influential films in modern horror, steering the genre towards the plight of teenagers, where it would remain ever since. Sissy Spacek is both frail and frightening as the persecuted teenager wrestling with telekinetic powers beyond her control, while Piper Laurie resurrected her career as Carrie’s terrifying fundamentalist mother. But like The Exorcist (1973) before it, the film is as much about adolescence and a fear of femininity as it is about the supernatural. De Palma employs pioneering split-screen photography and a searing score from Pino Donaggio as he builds towards cinema’s most memorable – and bloodsoaked – prom sequence, capped by a shock ending that 40 years on still wields unearthly power.

1977 USA National Society of Film Critics Awards, Best Actress

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

    • 2016-09-18 (Sun)
      19:45
      2016-10-16 (Sun)
      22:00

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