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Carrie (1976)

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Carrie (1976)	comment	Carrie (1976) is the first and best-known adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel of the same name. It was directed by Brian De Palma and stars Sissy Spacek in the title role, with a supporting cast that includes Piper Laurie, John Travolta, Amy Irving, William Katt, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley, and P. J. Soles.High School can be rough, especially when you are the school outcast. Carrie White (Spacek) has spent her entire life as a pariah, rejected by her peers and regularly abused by her fanatically religious mother, Margaret (Laurie). However, Carrie has a secret: she has telekinetic powers. And when heartthrob Tommy (Katt) invites her to the school prom, Carrie's whole world will change for the better... and worse.Received a direct sequel in 1999 in the form of The Rage: Carrie 2.
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Carrie (1976) / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Carrie (1976) / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: The shower after gym class warrants basically a paragraph before the blood starts. In this film it becomes a Fanservicey slow-motion pan as we see the girls in various states of undress, culminating in a long stretch spent lingering on Carrie showering.
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Carrie (1976) / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Carrie (1976) / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: The final sequence shows boulders crashing through the ceiling of the White house as a remnant of the planned climax where Carrie would have the house crushed in a shower of stones. A possible case: right after the shower scene, there's a bit where Miss Collins is talking to principal about what happened and says she almost sympathized with the girls who were tormenting Carrie over being so freaked out because of her period. As this seems rather at odds with her characterization in the rest of the movie, it's likely a left-over bit from an earlier draft, as in the book she was a lot less nice and had a similar line. Here, she's nice to Carrie throughout the movie, and there's no other hints that she actually dislikes her.
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Carrie (1976) / int_13e3985d	type	Crucified Hero Shot
Carrie (1976) / int_13e3985d	comment	Crucified Hero Shot: A villainous example. Carrie's mother, in her final shot, impaled and crucified with steak knives in the style of the Saint Sebastian figurine in the confessional. And like Saint Sebastian, she experiences religious ecstasy during her death. Saint Sebastian, who according to legend was a very handsome young man, is something of an unofficial sex symbol in the Catholic Church (especially among closeted gay men). The movie uses this to show how Carrie's mother has literally channeled her sex drive into religious devotion — or in this case, Saint Sebastian.
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Carrie (1976) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Carrie (1976) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer showed off the entire climax, including the deaths of nearly every major character, which makes one wonder why anyone bothered to go see the film. It's particularly hilarious when they dramatically mention "John Travolta in his first motion picture role" and promptly have his car explode.
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Carrie (1976) / int_149605c1	type	Ambiguous Innocence
Carrie (1976) / int_149605c1	comment	Ambiguous Innocence: Crossing over with the below. It's left very ambiguous how many people (if any, except Norma) are laughing at Carrie, and Miss Collins seems to be genuinely upset on her behalf, while the book makes it clear that most people laughed.
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Carrie (1976) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Carrie (1976) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Chris really seems to be enjoying pulling that rope... Margaret's moans after being skewered with several knives come off as very suggestive too.
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Carrie (1976) / int_14fbe67f	comment	Godiva Hair: When Carrie is drying herself after her bath.
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Carrie (1976) / int_167b037a	type	Workout Fanservice
Carrie (1976) / int_167b037a	comment	Workout Fanservice: The detention scene, which seems to exist mainly to feature a gaggle of high school girls wearing tiny gym shorts doing stretches and squats, all while Betty Buckley (wearing similarly tiny shorts) serves as a Drill Sergeant Nasty.
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Carrie (1976) / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Carrie (1976) / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Chris qualifies even more here than in the book, as she is even more cruel and sadistic, and attempts to murder Carrie by running her over, which she was opposed to in the book.
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Carrie (1976) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Carrie (1976) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: After the bloodbath at the prom, Carrie is in a bath of blood.
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Carrie (1976) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Carrie (1976) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: In this case, nearly everyone in the gym. If only Miss Collins had listened to Sue when she was trying to explain about the bucket of blood.
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Carrie (1976) / int_1ce1cfd8	type	all lowercase letters
Carrie (1976) / int_1ce1cfd8	comment	all lowercase letters: All of the opening and closing credits.
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Carrie (1976) / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Carrie (1976) / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Margaret does this to Carrie after the prom disaster.
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Carrie (1976) / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Carrie (1976) / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Margaret stabs Carrie, Carrie uses Margaret's knives to crucify her, and then Carrie's My God, What Have I Done? reaction leads her to burn down her house with both of them inside.
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Carrie (1976) / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Carrie (1976) / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear how much of the laughter is real and how much is Carrie hallucinating. A lot of it is clearly imaginary, but the split-screen shots (which are not from Carrie's POV) clearly show many people laughing as she closes the doors. Even the people who made the movie don't agree on this, as the screenwriter's intent was that the laughter was mostly in her head, while the editor believed that a lot of people joined in once Norma got the ball rolling. It's also unclear whether the people are just laughing to be mean, or more out of shock/fear/disbelief, although it probably varies from person to person.
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Carrie (1976) / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Carrie (1976) / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Chris is in every way the driving force behind the prank here, takes sadistic enjoyment in pulling the rope, and has no qualms about running Carrie over, unlike in the book where Billy was as much a driving force behind the prank as she was. Norma was a geeky Student Council President sort in the book, but becomes Chris's right hand gal pal. She leads the laughing when Carrie gets pranked. Ralph White is dead in the book, but walked out on Margaret and Carrie in this movie. Any qualities in Margaret White that could be considered humanizing or sympathetic are not present in this film. A large part of this is due to Piper Laurie's cartoonishly villainous performance. Billy's friends were a lot less evil in the book. They didn't know about the prank and one of them was horrified when he learned what happened. In the film, they're fully on board with the prank and help rig the voting.
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Carrie (1976) / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Carrie (1976) / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: Miss Collins gives the mean girls a very harsh punishment (a week of detention in gym class, with them getting banned from the prom if they don't show up,) and borders on Drill Sergeant Nasty at times. Considering how horribly they treated Carrie, she's completely justified.
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Carrie (1976) / int_23330a99	type	Immediate Self-Contradiction
Carrie (1976) / int_23330a99	comment	Immediate Self-Contradiction: At one point Ms.Collins see's Carrie looking upset, and asks her what's wrong. She says that Tommy asks her out but is afraid it's a Prank Date. Ms.Collins tells her not to worry about it, and even brings her up to a mirror and tells her she's pretty. In the very next scene, she confronts Sue and Tommy and accuses them of playing yet another cruel trick. While she probably was being sincere in telling Carrie she was pretty (since she certainly is), it's still a tacit admission that she was mostly just lying to make Carrie feel better.
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Carrie (1976) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Carrie (1976) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The present-day plot in the book opens right as the girls are showering after gym class. The film adds an additional scene in gym, where Carrie loses the game for her team and is chewed out for it by everyone. A scene is added where Margaret White is going door-to-door to preach her beliefs, and has a brief encounter with Mrs. Snell (who barely features in the book). A poem Tommy submitted for English class is read out loud. Carrie calls it "beautiful", prompting even the teacher to make fun of her. Tommy then subtly defends her.
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Carrie (1976) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Carrie (1976) / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Carrie crucifies Margaret and stabs her stomach with sharp kitchen tools, and she is positioned to look exactly like the figure of Saint Sebastian in the confessional.
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Carrie (1976) / int_23a37bb9	type	So Happy Together
Carrie (1976) / int_23a37bb9	comment	So Happy Together: Although this is technically their first date, the prom scene with Tommy and Carrie before it all goes to hell is arguably one of the most iconic examples in cinema history.
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Carrie (1976) / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Carrie (1976) / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: This one is given some justification compared to the book, where Miss Collins gives Carrie some suggestions as to what she could do to clean up for the prom.
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Carrie (1976) / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Carrie (1976) / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: Almost everyone trapped inside the gym at the end, save the two teachers who are killed from electrocution, and Miss Collins. The sequel reveals that a few students somehow escaped, but itâ€™s not revealed in either film who the survivors are.
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Carrie (1976) / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Carrie (1976) / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: The book version of Carrie's father died in an accident before she was born. In the film, though, it is made clear that Ralph White left Margaret for another woman, acting as a Sequel Hook for The Rage: Carrie 2.
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Carrie (1976) / int_2bb06191	type	Adaptational Sexuality
Carrie (1976) / int_2bb06191	comment	Adaptational Sexuality: An extremely downplayed example. Betty Buckley says she played Miss Collins as a lesbian.
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Carrie (1976) / int_2bc77899	type	I Am Not Pretty
Carrie (1976) / int_2bc77899	comment	I Am Not Pretty: Carrie has a major problem with this. Despite Miss Collins telling her that she's a pretty girl, and later telling her at the prom, that she's beautiful, she's still convinced Collins is just saying it to be nice, even though she really is beautiful in her pink dress.
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Carrie (1976) / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Carrie (1976) / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Experienced by Sue at the end.
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Carrie (1976) / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Carrie (1976) / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: Chris has only herself to blame for getting kicked out of the prom, yet she lashes out at Carrie. Carrie kills everyone at the prom, even Miss Collins, because she thinks theyâ€™re laughing at her humiliation, which the filmmakers confirmed was just a hallucination, and only a few of the bullies were laughing.
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Carrie (1976) / int_2f6a98f5	type	Student Council President
Carrie (1976) / int_2f6a98f5	comment	Norma was a geeky Student Council President sort in the book, but becomes Chris's right hand gal pal. She leads the laughing when Carrie gets pranked.
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Carrie (1976) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Carrie (1976) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Freddy, who helps Norma switch the ballots, thus setting up Carrie's humiliation, looks away in disgust when people laugh at Tommy getting hit with the bucket. When the basketball board falls on Miss Collins and kills her, Chris can be seen looking horrified.
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Carrie (1976) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Carrie (1976) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: This is the only film version where Chris's father doesn't appear.
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Carrie (1976) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Carrie (1976) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The English teacher making fun of Carrie for saying Tommy's poem is "beautiful". It shows that even the teachers are assholes to Carrie.
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Carrie (1976) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Carrie (1976) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: One of the bullies (named Cora Wilson according to the script) appears to have undergone this, as when Carrie wins prom queen, she gives her a congratulatory kiss on the cheek, looks very upset at the prank, and is one of the first to try to help Tommy off the stage. This is largely due to her actress's performance, as she has almost no spoken dialogue.
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Carrie (1976) / int_3b4c1417	type	Unstable Powered Woman
Carrie (1976) / int_3b4c1417	comment	Unstable Powered Woman: Carrie is a very sweet, borderline angelic character who shows kindness to everyone... until she discovers telekinesis and uses it to push back at anyone who hurts her, burning down her school, house, and entire town.
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Carrie (1976) / int_3c694b06	type	Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
Carrie (1976) / int_3c694b06	comment	Cryptically Unhelpful Answer: When Miss Collins asks Carrie how she likes the prom, Carrie says "It's like being on Mars," which probably means something like "It's more wonderful than I ever imagined", but she doesn't elaborate.
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Carrie (1976) / int_3e1c753d	type	Blue Is Heroic
Carrie (1976) / int_3e1c753d	comment	Blue Is Heroic: Carrie wears blue at first. Sue wears a blue dress at first too. Miss Collins usually wears blue. Tommy also wears a blue shirt before getting dressed in his prom suit.
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Carrie (1976) / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Carrie (1976) / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Billy's Chevelle explodes soon after rolling over. Justified, though, in that it's made clear that Carrie caused the car to blow up with her mind.
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Carrie (1976) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Carrie (1976) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	A possible case: right after the shower scene, there's a bit where Miss Collins is talking to principal about what happened and says she almost sympathized with the girls who were tormenting Carrie over being so freaked out because of her period. As this seems rather at odds with her characterization in the rest of the movie, it's likely a left-over bit from an earlier draft, as in the book she was a lot less nice and had a similar line. Here, she's nice to Carrie throughout the movie, and there's no other hints that she actually dislikes her.
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Carrie (1976) / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
Carrie (1976) / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: The novel is set in the fictional Maine town of Chamberlain. This movie was filmed in Los Angeles, Carrie and Margaret speak with Southern accents, and the cars have Ohio license plates.
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Carrie (1976) / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Carrie (1976) / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: Almost every single VHS or DVD cover (including the one on this page), shows Carrie covered in blood (though in their defense, the events of the prom have reached It Was His Sled levels of awareness).
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Carrie (1976) / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Carrie (1976) / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Carrie during her prom rampage.
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Carrie (1976) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Carrie (1976) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Sue has it worse here than she did in the novel. Other than being forced into a bootcamp-style detention by Miss Collins, she is still thought to be making Carrie's life miserable by Miss Collins, when she only wants to atone for mocking Carrie in the shower by having Tommy take Carrie to the prom. When Sue was at the prom, she gets dragged out by Miss Collins who doesn't listen to her when she tries to warn her about Chris and Billy, and witnesses Carrie's massacre and becomes very traumatized as a result. And last but not least, her final scene is where she has a nightmare about Carrie grabbing her arm and she wakes up screaming uncontrollably.
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Carrie (1976) / int_486b2f7e	type	Roundabout Shot
Carrie (1976) / int_486b2f7e	comment	Roundabout Shot: A variation happens as the camera circles around Carrie and Tommy as they dance romantically.
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Carrie (1976) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Carrie (1976) / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Norma survives the prom in the book and even writes a book about it. Here, she's killed with a fire hose. The principal is electrocuted in the film, but survives in the book. The gym teacher survives too and resigns after the incident, but here is killed when the basketball backboard falls on her.
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Carrie (1976) / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
Carrie (1976) / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: Famously so. The book's ending mostly detailed the aftermath of the incident, finishing with a letter from a mother in Tennessee mentioning that her daughter may have powers too. The film's ending shows Sue laying flowers at Carrie's grave, a bloodied hand rising up to grab her, and revealing it as a nightmare, ending with a hysterical Sue being comforted by her mother.
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Carrie (1976) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Carrie (1976) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: A good amount of Carrie's class perishes at the prom, including Tommy, Miss Collins, Norma, the Principal, and many others as well as Chris and Billy being killed outside by Carrie in self-defense. Carrie, traumatized, seeks comfort from her mother only for her to literally stab her in the back and cause Carrie to kill her in self-defense. This causes her powers to go haywire and bring the house crashing down on her, killing her. Sometime later, we catch up with Sue, who wakes up screaming from a nightmare, clearly suffering from PTSD, solidifying that she'll never be the same again.
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Carrie (1976) / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
Carrie (1976) / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: Helen Shyres is a prom queen candidate in the book and is implied to be pretty. Here she's presented as the chubby Butt-Monkey of the group, who doesn't seem to have a date for the prom.
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Carrie (1976) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Carrie (1976) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Carrie massacres the entire prom in response to the prank, due to her belief that everyone's laughing at her.
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Carrie (1976) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Carrie (1976) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Carrie's first and final scenes involve blood mixing into water. The first time, it's her getting her period in the school shower, the second, it's her bathing at home covered in blood.
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Carrie (1976) / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Carrie (1976) / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: One of the most famous examples. In the original novel, Carrie was described as short, chunky, acne-ridden, and with short, mousy brown hairnote It is said, however, that She Cleans Up Nicely at the prom, suggesting she might not be as ugly as she thinks., while in the movie she is tall and very skinny without any acne, and has long, strawberry blonde hair. Margaret as well. In the novel, she is described as short and fat, with short white hair and glasses, while in the movie, she is portrayed as tall and slim with medium-length russet-brown hair, and her glasses are not seen.
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Carrie (1976) / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Carrie (1976) / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: A minor one, but since Carrie is a lot prettier than in the book, it's somewhat odd that everyone is so mean to her. Sure, she's really shy, but that usually doesn't inspire the kind of deep and unreasoning hatred we see in the movie. A common fan theory is that the other girls realize she's actually prettier than them, and feel jealous. This became something of an Ascended Fanon in the 2013 remake, with Word of God saying that is exactly why Chris hates her. Relatedly, there's a bit during the prom (taken directly from the book) where Ms.Collins tells Carrie she looks beautiful, only for Carrie to basically say "I know I don't, but thanks anyway," even though she's pretty much the belle of the ball. For the above reasons, this made more sense in the original novel, although it can be hand waved as just an example of how abysmal her self-esteem is.
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Carrie (1976) / int_570afdac	type	Fake-Out Make-Out
Carrie (1976) / int_570afdac	comment	Fakeout Makeout: Norma and her date do this to hide the fact that they're dropping the prom ballots to the floor and replacing them with fake ones.
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Carrie (1976) / int_58030b25	type	Visual Innuendo
Carrie (1976) / int_58030b25	comment	Visual Innuendo: The close-up of the spraying shower head in the locker room scene emphasizes its phallic resemblance.
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Carrie (1976) / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
Carrie (1976) / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: In the book, Sue has her Heel Realization in the back of Tommy's car, but the scene never made it into the movie. The sex scenes between Billy and Chris are removed or toned down, with just the beginning of Chris implying she's about to give oral sex to him.
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Carrie (1976) / int_5897cc7a	type	Prom Wrecker
Carrie (1976) / int_5897cc7a	comment	Prom Wrecker: Chris and her friends plan to do this to Carrie, by dumping pig's blood on her when she is crowned Prom Queen. What they don't realize is that she has psychic powers.
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Carrie (1976) / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Carrie (1976) / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The entire framing device is cut, as is the final part of Carrie's rampage, where she goes after the whole town. The filmmakers had intended to include the latter, but they didn't have the budget.
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Carrie (1976) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Carrie (1976) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: Near the start of Carrie's rampage, Ms. Collins and one of the students are seen checking on Tommy's body. The student's horrified reaction suggests that Tommy's already dead at this point.
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Carrie (1976) / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Carrie (1976) / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: At the end of the film, Sue dreams of placing flowers on Carrie's grave. A bloody hand suddenly reaches out and grabs her.
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Carrie (1976) / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Carrie (1976) / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: As the prom collapses into flames and destruction, Carrie watches the proceedings with a placid expression and a faint smile.
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Carrie (1976) / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
Carrie (1976) / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: In a horror movie about what jerks people can be, the story briefly pauses so we can have a nice little breather moment when Carrie gets her first (and only) kiss, from Tommy out on the dance floor.
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Carrie (1976) / int_613fa807	type	Identical Twin ID Tag
Carrie (1976) / int_613fa807	comment	Identical Twin ID Tag: The Wilson twins can easily be distinguished by Ruth having a short pageboy haircut, while Cora's is down to her waist.
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Carrie (1976) / int_629de9ad	type	'70s Hair
Carrie (1976) / int_629de9ad	comment	'70s Hair: Most of the cast, with the biggest example (in more ways than one) being William Katt's massive blond 'fro.
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Carrie (1976) / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Carrie (1976) / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: At one point Sue just suddenly gets up and sneaks into the prom for reasons that aren't explained. Some viewers mistakenly thought she was in on the prank, as this plot point doesn't make much sense otherwise. Did she just go to make sure Carrie and Tommy are ok? If so, why did she just happen to show up right before the blood is poured? The 2013 remake fixes this by having her get a threatening text from Chris which motivates her to sneak in.
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Carrie (1976) / int_667ae3bf	type	Gym Class Hell
Carrie (1976) / int_667ae3bf	comment	Gym Class Hell: The girls who participate in the locker room hazing are given a week's detention with their gym teacher, who puts them through a boot-camplike regiment of calisthenics and running laps on the playing field.
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Carrie (1976) / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
Carrie (1976) / int_6de438eb	comment	The Everyman: Sue comes off more as this in the film, as her initial friendship with Chris is downplayed.
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Carrie (1976) / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Carrie (1976) / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: Billy Nolan in the book is a sociopath who rapes Chris at one point (she takes it as If It's You, It's Okay) and the narration says that the main reason she is with him is because she can't wrap him around her little finger. Here, Billy is still a violent delinquent, but is shown as more of a dork that Chris easily manipulates. Nancy Allen didn't even realize how much of a villain he was until she saw the final film, having thought of Billy and Chris as bumbling comic relief throughout production. In the book, when the vice-principal gets Carrie's name wrong, he actually admits his mistake and explains that it's not personal — he's been around so long that he often forgets names. Both he and the principal also stand up to Chris's father and do their best to help Carrie. The film cuts out most of this and combines the two characters, making the principal simply come off as an incompetent administrator. Brian De Palma was so impressed with PJ Soles' performance as Norma Watson that he rewrote her as Chris's Beta Bitch with a role in the prom prank.
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Carrie (1976) / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
Carrie (1976) / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Carrie walks out of the bloody gym as the fire starts. A notable example because, in the book, it's actually subverted, as Carrie runs out crying and is then tripped by one of the laughing students.
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Carrie (1976) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Carrie (1976) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Just before the blood is poured, Sue (who's managed to sneak in) notices the bucket of blood and the rope trailing down to under the stairs. She pulls open the curtain on the staircase and sees Chris and Billy hiding under there. Miss Collins sees her and grabs her just as she is pointing at them and yelling, but just throws her out without even looking at what she was pointing at, even though the vast majority of people on the planet will reflexively look at something if someone points and says something like "Hey, look at that!"
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Carrie (1976) / int_72ce3f54	type	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul
Carrie (1976) / int_72ce3f54	comment	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The film doesn't establish that Sue and Chris are friends — in fact, Sue seems to find her aggravating, and Norma is portrayed as her best friend.
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Carrie (1976) / int_7317b97d	type	Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Carrie (1976) / int_7317b97d	comment	Awakening the Sleeping Giant: The blood bucket prank ends up being the straw that breaks the elephant's back for Carrie, who absolutely lays into the prom in a telekinetic rage.
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Carrie (1976) / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Carrie (1976) / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Anyone wearing a red cap is in on the prank (though Norma's date ditches his for the prom).
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Carrie (1976) / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Carrie (1976) / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Ralph White has been dead for some years in the book. In the film he ran off and had an affair with another woman. This allowed for the sequel to make Rachel Carrie's half-sister.
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Carrie (1976) / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Carrie (1976) / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Chris telling Miss Collins to stick her exercises up her —. The funny part is due to bad editing, the curse is supposed to be cut short by Miss Collins slapping her, but the actresses are standing too far apart for this, so there's a weird pause where no one's doing anything and it seems like Chris has self-censored the word "ass."
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Carrie (1976) / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Carrie (1976) / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Minor example. Carrie says she sewed her prom dress. In the book, she's been taking in sewing for neighbors for years to get money for things Margaret refused to pay for, so she's an experienced seamstress. This isn't really touched on in the film. Several possible reasons for Carrie's powers are removed altogether from the film, along with the framing device. The book quite extensively considers the possibility that it is caused by a supernatural event (such as coming from space), but also includes descriptions of preliminary research showing that these powers are genetic. None of this is mentioned in the film. The film cuts out most scenes that better flesh out Sue's character and motivations, making it rather vague why she wants Tommy to take Carrie to the prom. A lot of viewers thought Sue was in on the prank as a result. In the prom scene, Miss Collins, Chris, and Sue seem to realize that Carrie is causing everything quite inexplicably — when to those who don't know she has psychic powers, it just looks like the fire hose went off and the doors wouldn't open. The book explains that when Carrie uses her powers at their full height (which she does in the massacre), everyone in the vicinity can sense it's her (even people who have never met her).
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Carrie (1976) / int_7c4fdf65	type	Red Is Violent
Carrie (1976) / int_7c4fdf65	comment	Red Is Violent: Carrie uses her Psychic Powers to turn the lights all the lights in the room red just before she starts killing everyone.
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Carrie (1976) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Carrie (1976) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The gym teacher, Miss Collins, is one of the few characters to defend Carrie by punishing her tormentors. Unfortunately, this leads to them plotting far more horrific revenge, leading to the iconic scene at the end.
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Carrie (1976) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Carrie (1976) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Norma hitting Carrie with her cap for missing the ball in volleyball.
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Carrie (1976) / int_812a2820	type	Pink Means Feminine
Carrie (1976) / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: Carrie's prom dress is a light shade of pink, marking the first time she's ever really paid attention to her appearance. This was new to the film, as the book dress was red.
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Carrie (1976) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Carrie (1976) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Nancy Allen (Chris) and Piper Laurie (Margaret) thought they were in a comedy, and it showed. Both are on very, very hammy form.
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Carrie (1976) / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Carrie (1976) / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: In the book, Carrie White had some murderous fantasies (however justified) and other disturbing traits even before she went on her rampage. Here, she's a kind, gentle, and humble girl up until she finally loses it. Even afterwards, some of her nice personality remains, as once she calms down she seems extremely remorseful, and goes to her mother seeking to be comforted, and only kills her in self-defense, where as in the book it was a deliberate act of revenge.
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Carrie (1976) / int_831164fe	type	Signature Style
Carrie (1976) / int_831164fe	comment	Signature Style: Brian De Palma gets a lot of mileage out of two of his favorite filmmaking devices — the Orbital Shot (used when Carrie and Tommy dance) and a Split Screen (when Carrie starts her rampage).
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Carrie (1976) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Carrie (1976) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: There is a girlnote The one with the white shirt and medium-sized hair who is present during the roll call, but is nowhere to be seen during the detention scene. The fates of the students that tried to carry Tommy out of the gym (George, Frieda, Cora, Rhonda, The Beak and Ernest) are left unknown. The sequel reveals that some few people managed to escape, but it's not confirmed if one of the aforementioned students were the survivors.
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Carrie (1976) / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
Carrie (1976) / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: Tommy in the book was said to be a surprisingly good English student, and a poem of his is used as an example of his potential. According to the script, the poem read out in class was written by Sue, and Tommy is passing it off as his own work. Helen was of average intelligence in the book, but seems to be quite ditzy and clumsy here. Billy wasn't a good student in the book, but he was shown to be extremely calculating, e.g. wiping his own fingerprints off the bucket to let his dumb "friends" take the rap if it came to that. In the film, Billy appears totally subservient to Chris and generally dumb all round.
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Carrie (1976) / int_887da4ea	type	Died Happily Ever After
Carrie (1976) / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: One of the most disturbing uses of this trope. Margaret's death is played in a way that makes it sound like she's getting off on it, and is happy that she's going to finally meet Jesus.
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Carrie (1976) / int_8b4ae7d1	type	Pacified Adaptation
Carrie (1976) / int_8b4ae7d1	comment	Pacified Adaptation: Due to the film's low budget, the filmmakers couldn't include the lengthy sequence from the book where Carrie destroys her entire hometown, and so her rampage here was kept limited to the prom, killing Billy and Chris in a car explosion, and burning down her house.
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Carrie (1976) / int_8ea29181	type	Raised Hand of Survival
Carrie (1976) / int_8ea29181	comment	Raised Hand of Survival: In the very last scene, in Sue's Nightmare Sequence, Carrie's bloody hand reaches up and grabs Sue's arm as she lays flowers on her grave causing her to scream in terror of her nightmare.
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Carrie (1976) / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Carrie (1976) / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: After spending the whole film filled to the brim with religious speeches and symbols, the White's house is last seen sinking into the Earth, on fire.
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Carrie (1976) / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Carrie (1976) / int_9591377d	comment	In the book, Sue has her Heel Realization in the back of Tommy's car, but the scene never made it into the movie.
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Carrie (1976) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Carrie (1976) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Miss Collins notices Sue has gatecrashed the prom and, still suspecting her of setting Carrie up, throws her out before she can tell Miss Collins what she's just seen above and below the stage.
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Carrie (1976) / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Carrie (1976) / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: The final scene, where Sue is grabbed by Carrie's arm coming out of the ground while laying flowers at the ashes of her house. Thankfully, it turns out to be All Just a Dream. This shock ending wound up having a major influence on many pioneering Slasher Movies, particularly Friday the 13th (1980).
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Carrie (1976) / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
Carrie (1976) / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: Carrie being made the Prom Queen starts out as this, complete with her crying Tears of Joy as she is let up to the throne. Unfortunately, it soon gets ugly.
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Carrie (1976) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Carrie (1976) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: After Miss Collins gives her a good thrashing, Sue looks down at the sobbing Carrie cowering in the shower stall and realizes what she and the other girls have done.
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Carrie (1976) / int_a20386a2	type	Serious Work, Comedic Scene
Carrie (1976) / int_a20386a2	comment	Serious Work, Comedic Scene: This is mostly a very moody, grim, and ominous movie, except for the scene where Tommy and his friends are shopping for prom outfits. Tommy points out that to his friend that none of the tuxedos they're considering look good on him. The movie fast-forwards through their argument, and reveals that Tommy's friend settled on a tuxedo-print T-shirt.
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Carrie (1976) / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
Carrie (1976) / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: The weird "Bible verses" about Eve and the "Raven Of Sin" are just a bunch of made-up nonsense not found in any translation of the Bible. Possibly justified by Margaretâ€™s dubious (at best) sanity.
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Carrie (1976) / int_a3422c3b	type	Period Shaming
Carrie (1976) / int_a3422c3b	comment	Period Shaming: The film adapts the scene where Carrie gets her first period pretty faithfully; the girls jeer at Carrie, throw sanitary products at her and chant "Plug it up" while she cowers and cries for help. When Carrie asks her mother why she didn't tell her about periods, Margaret just slaps her and preaches about menstruation being a punishment for sin, claiming that if Carrie "had remained sinless, the curse of blood would never have come upon her" and that she must pray for forgiveness. Chris plays a cruel prank on Carrie by rigging the prom votes so that Carrie will be crowned prom queen, then dumps a bucket of pig's blood on her just to remind everybody of her traumatizing shower incident. Needless to say, this was the last straw for Carrie.
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Carrie (1976) / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Carrie (1976) / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Carrie goes from mousy brown to strawberry blonde. Chris is dark haired in the book and blonde in the film. Margaret already has grey hair in the book but has red hair in the film. Sue is blonde in the book, but brunette in the film.
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Carrie (1976) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Carrie (1976) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The whole prom scene. It goes from being really happy, with Carrie even crying Tears of Joy as she is made the Prom Queen, to heartbreaking as she gets covered in blood and everyone starts laughing (or so she thinks), to terrifying, as she starts killing everyone.
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Carrie (1976) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Carrie (1976) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Mrs. Snell, quite literally. She only appeared briefly as she was leaving the house before the prom in the book. Here she gets a little more screen time and features as a supporting character. This is due to Brian De Palma discovering that Amy Irving's mother, Priscilla Pointer, was also an actress and writing it specifically for her (he had previously cast a real life mother and daughter in Sisters).
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Carrie (1976) / int_a90eaeaa	type	Shell-Shock Silence
Carrie (1976) / int_a90eaeaa	comment	Shell-Shock Silence: In the moments right after the prank, most of the sound cuts out, with the sound of the bucket the only thing we hear.
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Carrie (1976) / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Carrie (1976) / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: The principal seems indifferent to Carrie's plight and doesn't even get her name right.
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Carrie (1976) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Carrie (1976) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Pino Donaggio is a master of this, scoring some very disturbing scenes in either a very inappropriately sexy or sweet fashion.
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Carrie (1976) / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Carrie (1976) / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Hoo boy at the end she comes home and is obviously full of remorse for the prom massacre. Shortly after, she has to kill her mother in self-defense, and cradles her body as she goes into the prayer closet and starts praying (likely for forgiveness) as the house collapses and finally puts her out of her misery.
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Carrie (1976) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Carrie (1976) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Sue when she sees the bucket above the stage.
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Carrie (1976) / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Carrie (1976) / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Sue Snell fits this pretty fairly well, save for the fact that she never directly confronts the killer... except in her nightmares. And she finally bites it in the sequel. This was not true in the original book, where she confronts Carrie at the end and triggers her Heel Realization just before Carrie dies.
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Carrie (1976) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Carrie (1976) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Margaret White, of course.
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Carrie (1976) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Carrie (1976) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: While Carrie's classmates and teachers weren't very sympathetic to her plight, they were mortified by the pig blood prank. Which just makes Carrie's rampage even more tragic and scary.
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Carrie (1976) / int_ba46585b	type	Adaptational Backstory Change
Carrie (1976) / int_ba46585b	comment	Adaptational Backstory Change: In the book, Margaret turned into an insane religious fanatic after the violent death of her father long before she ever met Ralph White, who later died in a construction accident shortly after Carrie was conceived. The film implies that she turned to religious mania after her husband left her for another woman, at least if Carrie's comments are to be believed.
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Carrie (1976) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Carrie (1976) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Miss Collins refers to the prank orchestrated by Chris as "a very shitty thing" twice in succession. This elicits a few giggles from the gym students.
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Carrie (1976) / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Carrie (1976) / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: This rather suspect line from one of Billy's gang:
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Carrie (1976) / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Carrie (1976) / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Margaret, while she's coming after Carrie with a huge kitchen knife and making the sign of the Holy Cross with it. Right into the camera.
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Carrie (1976) / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Carrie (1976) / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: One of the most famous examples ever: Carrie's hand grabbing Sue's arm in a nightmare sequence at the end.
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Carrie (1976) / int_c32201f6	type	Good Colors, Evil Colors
Carrie (1976) / int_c32201f6	comment	Good Colors, Evil Colors: The film widely uses red to represent evil and blue for good. In addition to the blood, Carrie turns the lights red when she starts killing everyone, the bullies (particularly Norma) wear red caps, and Chris and Billy's car (which they use to try to run over Carrie), is bright red. Meanwhile, Carrie mainly wears blue at first, and starts out as a shy, Nice Girl, and changes back into a blue shirt after the massacre, when she washes the blood off and is feeling very remorseful. Sue wears a blue dress at first. Miss Collins (the only adult who is nice to her) also usually wears blue. Finally, Tommy Ross (who is likely the nicest character) has a pale blue car, and when Carrie and Tommy are about to be crowned (right before the blood) they are both bathed in a blue light.
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Carrie (1976) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Carrie (1976) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Sue sees the bucket above the stage and tries to stop the prank, but is thrown out by Ms. Collins just before Chris pulls the rope.
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Carrie (1976) / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Carrie (1976) / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Piper Laurie as Margaret got this treatment. The credits also had "Introducing" for John Travolta.
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Carrie (1976) / int_c6078997	type	New England Puritan
Carrie (1976) / int_c6078997	comment	New England Puritan: Margaret White is this trope to the extreme, resulting in her and her daughter being ostracized by the rest of the town.
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Carrie (1976) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Carrie (1976) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The film, being directed by noted Alfred Hitchcock fan Brian De Palma, has tons of shout-outs to Hitchcock's movies. The two biggest ones are probably the use of the "shower" music from Psycho, and the fact that the school is renamed Bates High School. You can also make a case for the characterization of Margaret White as a hammed-up Expy of Bernice Edgar, the prostitute-turned-religious fanatic mother of the title character in Marnie.
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Carrie (1976) / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Carrie (1976) / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: Norma's reaction to Tommy getting hit by the bucket is to laugh even harder at it. The guy next to her looks completely indifferent, and it doesn't seem to register much with the others either (though they soon had bigger things to worry about).
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Carrie (1976) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Carrie (1976) / int_c868a42a	comment	This version of Margaret White lacks the Freudian Excuse from the book and is just a psychotic, abusive bitch. Piper Laurie even said that she went out of her way to make her as over the top evil and crazy as possible.
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Carrie (1976) / int_c9e20e01	type	Unexpected Kindness
Carrie (1976) / int_c9e20e01	comment	Unexpected Kindness: Sue and Tommy to Carrie.
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Carrie (1976) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Carrie (1976) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Zig-zagged. In the book there are a few survivors of the prom massacre, but in the film Carrie kills all the promgoers, including Ms. Collins. However, in the book she destroys the entire town and many more are killed as a result of the incident. She just burns down the school gym here.
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Carrie (1976) / int_cecce86	type	Feedback Rule
Carrie (1976) / int_cecce86	comment	Feedback Rule: During the climactic scene, principal Morton and instructor Fromm tussle over the microphone about what to say during the crisis at the prom. The resulting microphone squeal brings them to Carrie's attention; she disposes of these goofballs by electrocuting them with the mic wiring.
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Carrie (1976) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Carrie (1976) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The famous prom scene.
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Carrie (1976) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Carrie (1976) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Sue sneaks into the prom to check that Tommy and Carrie are enjoying themselves, but her delight at seeing them crowned king and queen of the prom turns to horror when she notices the rope leading to the bucket of blood over the stage and to Chris and Billy under it. Miss Collins sees her, and although we don't hear the dialogue, Sue is clearly trying to warn her about the prank, but Miss Collins has already decided she can't be trusted and throws her out of the gym instead.
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Carrie (1976) / int_d31da2e3	type	If It's You, It's Okay
Carrie (1976) / int_d31da2e3	comment	Billy Nolan in the book is a sociopath who rapes Chris at one point (she takes it as If It's You, It's Okay) and the narration says that the main reason she is with him is because she can't wrap him around her little finger. Here, Billy is still a violent delinquent, but is shown as more of a dork that Chris easily manipulates. Nancy Allen didn't even realize how much of a villain he was until she saw the final film, having thought of Billy and Chris as bumbling comic relief throughout production.
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Carrie (1976) / int_d485cb13	type	Psychotic Smirk
Carrie (1976) / int_d485cb13	comment	Psychotic Smirk: We get a close-up of Chris giving one when she dumps the blood on Carrie.
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Carrie (1976) / int_d86fcde6	type	Kick the Morality Pet
Carrie (1976) / int_d86fcde6	comment	Kick the Morality Pet: Carrie killing Miss Collins during the prom massacre.
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Carrie (1976) / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
Carrie (1976) / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Sue is about to stop the prank when Miss Collins sees her and ejects her from the prom, thinking she's up to no good.
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Carrie (1976) / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Carrie (1976) / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: The high school goes from Ewen High to Bates High. Miss Desjardin becomes Miss Collins. The Thibodeau twins (Donna and Mary Lila Grace) become the Wilson twins, named Cora and Rhonda. Rachel Spies is now named Alice Litton.
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Carrie (1976) / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Carrie (1976) / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Rather blatantly when Carrie is showering after gym class. Lindsay Ellis used clips from that scene in her video on Male Gaze as an example.
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Carrie (1976) / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
Carrie (1976) / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: Everyone except Carrie, Miss Collins, Tommy, Sue (who was once a bully but reformed), and maybe a couple of other people are total assholes. As such, it's hard to feel any sympathy for them when when Carrie loses it and wastes them all.
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Carrie (1976) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Carrie (1976) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Mr. Morton is the vice principal in the book and Mr. Grayle is the principal. For convenience, Mr. Morton is the principal here too. Norma gets combined with Tina, who was Chris's friend in the book. Ironically, in the book, Tina doesn't like Norma at all. Frieda gets Helen's scene where she helps Sue decorate the gym and asks her about why Tommy is taking Carrie.
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Carrie (1976) / int_e4cf1ef0	type	Load-Bearing Boss
Carrie (1976) / int_e4cf1ef0	comment	Load-Bearing Boss: A very odd and completely unintentional example: after Carrie kills Margaret her house suddenly starts collapsing. This is because Carrie was originally going to make meteors rain down and destroy the house. However, the meteor-dropping device malfunctioned and they couldn't afford to re-shoot, so instead the house seems to just collapse for no reason after she dies.
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Carrie (1976) / int_e5b75009	type	"Psycho" Strings
Carrie (1976) / int_e5b75009	comment	"Psycho" Strings: Heard whenever Carrie uses her powers.
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Carrie (1976) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Carrie (1976) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Chris is even worse here, as the prank is all her idea, she takes sadistic enjoyment in pulling the rope, and she's even willing to murder Carrie, which she wasn't in the book. Norma Watson is turned into Chris's Beta Bitch. She's introduced viciously mocking Carrie's first period, and shows no remorse afterwards, only accepting detention because she doesn't want to miss the prom. When Chris tells her about the prank, Norma gleefully agrees to be in on it, rigging the prom ballots so that Carrie wins. When the blood is dumped, she laughs hysterically at Carrie's humiliation even after Tommy is knocked out and likely killed by the bucket. This version of Margaret White lacks the Freudian Excuse from the book and is just a psychotic, abusive bitch. Piper Laurie even said that she went out of her way to make her as over the top evil and crazy as possible.
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Carrie (1976) / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Carrie (1976) / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: It wouldn't be a Brian De Palma film without a very long tracking shot that goes on for several minutes. This one starts at Carrie and Tommy's table as they hand over their ballots, then follows Norma as she collects the other ballots, engages in a Fake-Out Make-Out with her boyfriend so she can dispose of the real ballots and collect the fake ones that award the crowns to Tommy and Carrie, and hands the fake ballots over to the vote counters before giving a thumbs up to Chris and Billy. The camera continues to move behind the stage to reveal Sue sneaking into the gym to check on Tommy and Carrie, then follows the rope up to the bucket of blood over the stage, and finally zooms back in on Carrie and Tommy's table as they are declared the king and queen of the prom. The sequence took a whole day to set up and light and thirty takes to film.
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Carrie (1976) / int_f482730a	type	No Peripheral Vision
Carrie (1976) / int_f482730a	comment	No Peripheral Vision: No one at the prom spots the bucket of pig's blood in the rafters, even though it's only about 12 feet up, and in plain sight. The remakes fix this by having the rafters be much higher up.
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Carrie (1976) / int_f7db29dd	type	Beta Bitch
Carrie (1976) / int_f7db29dd	comment	Norma Watson is turned into Chris's Beta Bitch. She's introduced viciously mocking Carrie's first period, and shows no remorse afterwards, only accepting detention because she doesn't want to miss the prom. When Chris tells her about the prank, Norma gleefully agrees to be in on it, rigging the prom ballots so that Carrie wins. When the blood is dumped, she laughs hysterically at Carrie's humiliation even after Tommy is knocked out and likely killed by the bucket.
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Carrie (1976) / int_fc9b6be5	type	Foe Romance Subtext
Carrie (1976) / int_fc9b6be5	comment	Foe Romance Subtext: A one-sided example. While Chris hates Carrie, she seems to really enjoy tormenting her, is obsessed with her to the point that she's thinking about Carrie during sex with her boyfriend, and the lead-up to the blood dump shows numerous close-ups of her licking her lips and her sweaty hands shaking in excitement as she's about to pull the rope. Nancy Allen confirmed this was intentional and said she played it like Chris was having an orgasm.
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Carrie (1976) / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: The book takes place in Maine. In the film, Carrie, Margaret, and several of the teens have memorably thick Southern accents, which would imply this takes place in a more rural Southern town instead of New England. According to the license plates, it takes place in Ohio, though a Southern-sounding accent wouldn't be unheard of in some of the more Appalachian parts of the state.
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Carrie (1976) / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Played straight with Carrie (until she snaps). She is a very sweet girl who seemingly wouldn't hurt anyone, until she's pushed too far. Inverted with Chris, who has blonde hair and is as mean as the proverbial polecat.
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New Hollywood	seeAlso	Carrie (1976)
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