Carrie (2013)
Carrie (2013)
The blurb: A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
My rating: 3/5
Tagged: drama, horror
Date I watched this movie 14/02/2016
What did I think?Carrie White is regarded as a loser, a loner, a social outcast. She is the daughter of an obsessively religious & overbearing mother. She also possesses the ability of telekinesis, and when Carrie gets upset or angry things around her tend to break, smash or get damaged, so when some vicious school bullies cross the line with their "fun", Carrie can't help but get a little angry. This causes Carrie to unleash her full fury at anyone who gets in her way.
Filmmakers can obviously achieve a certain level of effects now that they couldn't way back in 1976, and there are some pretty impressive effects here. It's not an effects-laden extravaganza and quite rightly it shouldn't be as Carrie is story-pushed and not effects-pushed, but some of the effects in the movie are well done and pretty cool to watch.
Chloë Grace Moretz does a really good job of playing Carrie bringing her own believability to the character, and Julianne Moore performs equally as good as Margaret White, Carrie's mother. The members who played the bullies - especially Portia Doubleday as Chris Hargensen - were also believable in their parts, and when it came to their time I had absolutely no sympathy. I cheered inside when they really got what they deserved.