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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 61258
Released: August 12, 2003 |
| Our Price: $3.19 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Everyone has a breaking point. Pray that Carrie White doesn't reach hers. Angela Bettis (Girl, Interrupted) stars in this bone-chilling update of Stephen King's legendary tale of horror and retribution, featuring eye-popping special effects and a shocking, all-new twist ending! Carrie White (Bettis) is a lonely, awkward teenage girl who just doesn't fit in. At school, she endures her classmates' constant ridicule, and at home she suffers endless psychological torture at the hands of her fanatically religious mother (Patricia Clarkson, "Six Feet Under"). But Carrie has a secret. She's been cursed with the terrifying power of telekinesis. And when her tormentors commit an act of unforgivably cruel humiliation at the prom, they'll soon learn a deadly lesson: If you mess with fire, you will get burned!
Description of Carrie (TV Film):
Nobody would argue with the thought that Sissy Spacek is the perfect heroine of Stephen King's scary tale of teenage telekinesis. But in a pinch, Angela Bettis, the star of this 2002 TV remake, fills Spacek's bloody shoes very well. Bettis--who expertly plays a similar role in the indie horror pic May--gets all the loner pathos of poor Carrie White, equally tormented by her cool classmates and her religious-fanatic mom (Patricia Clarkson). Her transformation from doormat to vengeful prom queen remains surefire wish fulfillment for anyone who ever felt a misfit in high school. Despite Bettis's intensity, it's difficult to justify remaking Carrie when Brian De Palma's 1976 version is enshrined as a classic of its kind (especially given the pedestrian TV-movie production values on display here). This one delivers its jolts, but when you could just as easily spend time with Spacek and De Palma, why bother? --Robert Horton
Carrie (TV Film) Reviews:
Better than the first 
2009-12-16 - This Carrie is better than the first. The first Carrie made starred Sissy Spacek and she did an excellent job playing the role of Carrie and I often wish she could have been in this one! However the newer actress(angela bettis) does do a remarkable job. It is nice to see that the woman playing Carries mother in the remake was not as crazy as the one in the first. In the first Carrie, Carries mother (played by actress Piper Laurie) kinda went overboard with the whole dying thing. She looked more like she was doing something else but I decline to actually write what that looked like in a review. Lets just say, it didn't look right with the rest of the movie in the first movie. In the second movie that scene wasn't even in it and it is a lot more tasteful and somewhat closer to the book. In the remake, Carries mother dies of a heart attack rather than a stabbing, a better touch I thought. The new actresses are really good! It has a nice touch adding the police investigation to it I thought and this is just overall a better version of the movie. There are some scenes to the movie that make this a much better film. The first movie was classic 1970's style horror. The remake is more modern and much better.
Are some of these people blind?
2009-10-27 - I do feel as some have already mentioned that this is a much closer adaption of King's book! There are a few people that could have been portrayed better, but for the most part everyone did a fine job. I don't think the girl quite had Chris's part down pat, but hey everyone has to be given a little slack ( it was made for TV right). Angela Bettis was superb in my opinion. Of course, everyone is has the right to their own, as for me, I feel this is the better of the two movies and had it been given proper budgeting, would have in every ones thoughts been one of the greatest King movies to hit the screen. As it was I feel it still is a must have on my list and I usually hate remakes. The twist ending makes it a must see at least! Signing out for now, I just could not let this movie slide by without my own input.
TV Movie more faithful to King's subpar story... 
2009-10-19 - A pointless remake with TV-caliber quality that's more faithful to King's original story, and the worse for it. DePalma got it perfectly right in his original film version, a vast improvement on King's mechanics; Kubrick did the same with THE SHINING, turning that turgid, unimaginative King story into something so much more! Only the adolescents turned on by Stephen King books could enjoy a TV-movie like this.
Painful 
2009-08-16 - I like this Carrie, she's painfully awkward and outcast. You can feel the ugliness she feels because of her classmates and her mother. But being a movie, she fights them all and gives them their due. Quite enjoyable in an entirely different way from the original movie version.
The way Stephen King envisioned his book translated to film.
2009-08-11 - I am an avid film critic and I've read every Stephen King book. I loved DePalma's vision for the first "Carrie" and loved Sissy Spacek's performance. This movie, in my opinion was more in the spirit of the book and is actually superior in every way.
