Review "Carrie":

I know it's been awhile since I wrote a review but the problem I've been having for the past couple of weeks has been a mixture of writer's block and laziness. I watched the wonderful movie "Carrie" on Halloween and I must say that this movie hits very close to home. I've always said if my high school experience was a movie it would be titled "Carrie" I feel for Carrie, I understand her pain and her feelings. I don't think there was anything wrong with what she did to her classmates (to a point ;D), I simply think it was just self defense. Come on if you were constantly tortured by you're classmates every single day and you had a religious psycho mom you would have a mental breakdown too. It starts out with all the girls playing volleyball in gym and Carrie being shy and socially awkward she missed the ball so the other team won so of course her team mates were mad and started yelling at her and one of the girls hit Carrie on the head with her gym hat. It's a freakin volleyball game in gym class give Carrie a break. Talk about poor sportsmanship.

Their all taking a shower after gym and it shows all the girls running around the locker room naked and it shows Carrie in the shower. While she's washing her legs blood starts running down her legs and it gets on her hands while she's washing herself. She sees the blood and freaks out cause she doesn't know what's going on and she hasn't had her period before so she runs out of the shower screaming and tries to get one of the girls to help her, but since their all bitches you know what they did? That's right instead of helping her they all started to tease her chanting "plug it up." The gym teacher pushes all the girls away to comfort Carrie and she calms her down. The teacher talks with the principle about what happened and had Carrie come in to talk to them and told her that she had permission to go home. The stupid principle kept calling her Cassie even though the gym teacher told him several times that her name was Carrie. After talking to Carrie while it was starting to get to her he calls her Cassie and she yells out "It's Carrie!" and his lamp on his desk breaks and she runs out of his office. While Carrie is walking home some stupid little boy is riding around on his bike and decides to taunt Carrie so he rode by Carrie yelling "Creepy Carrie, creepy Carrie!"

Once he did that Carrie looks at him and he looses control of his bike and he fell off. That was the funniest thing I ever saw, I laughed so hard. After Carrie gets home it shows her mom Margret at Sue's house to preach the word of Christ. I hate people like that which is why I never answer the door :D Margret talks to Sue's mom and she, like me isn't interested in hearing about "her" opinion on religion. Margret walks towards the door to leave then turns around and says "I pray that you find Jesus" and I pray that you find sanity. She heads home and the phone rings, it's the school letting her know what happened. She calls Carrie to come down stairs and explains she's a woman now and starts quoting the bible telling Carrie to repeat what she says and when Carrie wont she would hit her with the bible. After that she tells her it's time to pray for forgiveness and she drags Carrie kicking and screaming to the closet where she locks her in there and not letting her out till she stays in there for a long time praying. No wonder she snapped. The next day all the girls except Carrie are on the track field where the gym teacher is yelling at them for what they did to Carrie and told them that their punishment is a week detention and if they miss one day they wont be able to go to prom.

It continues to show the girls in detention then the main snotty girl Chris aka "Head Bitch" gets pissed and refuses to show up for the rest of the scheduled detention so of course she's not able to go to prom. Sue convinces her boyfriend Tommy to ask her to the prom cause she thought it would be nice and help Carrie. Out of all the girls that teased Carrie Sue is the only one to actually feel bad and try to make it right. You go girl! Tommy tries to ask her out but she keeps turning him down since she thinks he's just trying to make fun of her. Throughout the movie she notices that she's able to do things with her mind and she begins to read books about it and realizes she's not the only one who has that gift. She gets home and tells her mom that a boy asked her to prom and her mom tells her she can't go which makes Carrie upset and she pushes her mom with her mind and tells her that she's going and there's nothing she can do about it. Chris tells her boyfriend Billy that she wants to make Carrie pay so they head out to a farm and they kill one of the pigs. Carrie gets ready for the prom and her mom walks in the room and tells her that she can see her dirty pillows, Carrie informs her that their just breasts and every woman has them.

She heads off to the prom and she's having the time of her life then they announce the king and queen of the prom which ended up being Tommy and Carrie. They get up on stage where they give her a crown and flowers and she stands there smiling then suddenly it shows Chris under the stage holding a long rope. She lets go of the rope which drops a bucket of pig blood all over Carrie and everyone just stands there in shock at what just happened then one of Chris' friends begins to laugh and Carrie begins to hear her mother's voice in her head saying over and over again their all going to laugh at you then she totally snaps and begins to set the prom on fire. Everyone is running around screaming trying to get out of the building and a lot of them ended up dying including Tommy. Carrie is walking home while drenched in blood and it shows Chris and Billy driving in the car behind Carrie and Chris steps on the gas and tries to run her over but Carrie hurry and turns around and makes the car tumble over and burst into flames. Don't ever try to mess with a girl who has special powers, she'll kill you. She gets home and takes a bath to get the blood off of her and explains to her mom that everyone was laughing at her and it was bad.

Margret tells Carrie about how she fell in love with a guy when she was a teenager and she ended up having sex with him and she liked it but she ended up feeling dirty and vile and guilty once she got pregnant. After that she vowed to live her life spreading the word of Christ which is why she started being a crazy religious freak. She hugs Carrie and ends up stabbing her and Carrie falls down the stairs. Margret walks down and tries to stab her again but Carrie uses her mind to make all of the knives in the kitchen to fly towards her mom and kills her. Once she clues into what happened she hugs her mom screaming and crying that she was dead. Even though her mom was abusive Carrie still loved her. All that pain fuming out of Carrie makes the house catch on fire killing Carrie and her mom. Later it shows Sue's mom talking on the phone about what happened at the prom and how Sue is sleeping a lot which the Doctor says is normal considering what she's been through. It switches to a dream that Sue is having, she walks up to Carrie's grave to put some flowers on it then Carrie's hand pops out of the ground and grabs Sue's arm. She wakes up screaming and crying and her mom tries to calm her down then the scene fades away and the credits roll up.

I really loved this movie and it made me feel like I was just like Carrie. Even though I don't have any special powers I still got teased and made fun of by my class mates in school and it made my life a living hell. To this day I'm still surprised that I never had a mental breakdown. In a lot of ways me and Carrie are a lot alike which is why I understand how she felt and why she did what she did. Sometimes constant bullying will drive you to you're breaking point and you end up doing things you never thought you would do. This is why you should never bully another person cause you never know if their going to end up killing all the people who bullied them or killing themselves. My sister told me that I was the type of person who would go to their high school reunion to murder everyone. Hahahaha that comment made my day. I give this movie 5 out of 5 skulls.