Carrie Movie Remake: She’s Back!
“Brian De Palma’s “Carrie” is an absolutely spellbinding horror movie, with a shock at the end that’s the best thing along those lines since the shark leaped aboard in “Jaws,” wrote film critic Roger Ebert.” It’s also (and this is what makes it so good) an observant human portrait. This girl Carrie isn’t another stereotyped product of the horror production line; she’s a shy, pretty, and complicated high school senior who’s a lot like kids we once knew.”
“When the idea came up I thought, ‘I love Brian. I love Brian’s movie,” Kimberly Peirce the director of the new remake of Carrie commented. The remake was based on the 1976 film of the same name directed by Brian De Palma. Carrie will be released on October 18th.
Director Brian De Palma filmed the first ever Carrie 37 years ago. With actress Sissy Spacek as the main character, an unpopular who attends her senior prom, and is pranked when she is being announced as prom queen. Carrie unleashes her telekinetic powers and attacks her classmates.
Now 37 years later the remake of Carrie was filmed in Toronto. Carrie was played by a 16 year old actress named Chloe Grace Moretz. Carrie has a religious mother played by a 52 year old actress named Julianne Moore.
Moretz commented, “My first thoughts when I heard that the studio would be remaking “Carrie” were , ‘Oh God, what does that entail? What type of remake is it going to be? Is it going to be a real beautiful movie or something slasher-y and tentpole-y?”
Carrie was based on the 1974 book written by Stephen King. Carrie was the first of his novels to be adapted to film and television. When Carrie turned into a movie it was a critical and box office success in the United States, grossing 33.8 million when the budget was 1.8 million.
i was surprised to learn from reading your article that, there is an original carrie, and that the most recent one is a remake.
I enjoyed reading your article because I learned that Brian De Palma made the original movie in 1976.
i was surpirised to learn from reading your article that the first carrie was filmed 37 years ago.