CARRIE (1976/DVD/SPECIAL E/WS-1.85/16X9/O-RING) DVD

Carrie
This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her fanatical mother, Margaret (Piper Laurie), only causes her classmates' vicious cruelty to escalate, despite the attentions of her overly solicitous gym teacher (Betty Buckley). Finally, when the venomous Chris Hargenson (Nancy Allen) engineers a reprehensible prank at the school prom, Carrie lashes out in a horrifying display of her heretofore minor telekinetic powers. Many films had featured school bullies, but Carrie was one of the first to focus on the special brand of cruelty unique to teenage girls. Carrie's world is presented as a snake pit, where the well-to-do female students all have fangs -- even the reticent Sue Snell (Amy Irving) -- and all the males are blind pawns, sexually twisted around the fingers of Chris and her evil cronies. The talented supporting cast includes John Travolta, P.J. Soles, and William Katt. One of the genre's true classics, the film was followed by a sequel in 1999, as well as by a famously unsuccessful Broadway musical adaptation that starred Betty Buckley, the movie's gym teacher, as Margaret White. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Cast Sissy Spacek as Carrie White Piper Laurie as Margaret White Amy Irving as Sue Snell William Katt as Tommy Ross Nancy Allen as Chris Hargenson John Travolta as Billy Nolan Betty Buckley as Miss Collins Sidney Lassick as Mr. Fromm Stefan Gierasch as Principal Morton Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Snell Michael Talbott as Freddy Cameron de Palma as Boy On Bicycle

Crew Bill Kenney - Art Director Jack Fisk - Art Director Louis A. Stroller - Associate Producer Rosanna Norton - Costume Designer Donald Heitzer - First Assistant Director Brian De Palma - Director Paul Hirsch - Editor Pino Donaggio - Composer (Music Score) Wes Dawn - Makeup Bill Kenney - Production Designer Mario Tosi - Cinematographer Paul Monash - Producer Ken Pepiot - Special Effects Gregory M. Auer - Special Effects Dick Vorisek - Sound/Sound Designer Bert Hallberg - Sound/Sound Designer Richard Weiker - Stunts Coordinator Lawrence D. Cohen - Screenwriter Larry Cohen - Screenwriter Robert Gould - Set Decorator Stephen King - Book Author

Carrie
Stephen King's first novel was also his first work adapted for the screen and, with the arguable exception of The Shining, is still the best, thanks largely to a remarkable performance from Sissy Spacek as Carrie White and a surprisingly subtle, intelligent presentation by director Brian De Palma. De Palma wisely doesn't focus on Carrie's strange power to move objects with her mind in the first act. Instead, he emphasizes her miserable existence as a high-school outcast with a remarkably awful home life, and Spacek's performance brings Carrie to painfully vivid life. Carrie White personifies every high-school student who didn't fit in, and Spacek makes her sympathetic without making us wonder why people pick on her; when Carrie finally takes her revenge, Spacek transforms her into a monster with a strange dignity, at once terrifying and heroic. De Palma presents the story in clear, well-paced fashion, for the most part avoiding the all-too-obvious homages to other filmmakers that often mark his work and (with the exception of the split screen for Carrie's rampage at the prom) laying off distracting visual trickery, letting his cast and Larry Cohen's screenplay do the work. Often regarded as a watershed of '70s mainstream horror, Carrie is at the same time one of the truest and most painfully perceptive films about the high-school caste system; nothing would touch it in this regard until Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1996. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
 

Piper Laurie: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Supporting Actress (nominated) Piper Laurie: Golden Globe, Best Supporting Actress (nominated) Sissy Spacek: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie, Best Actress (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French, Spanish Subtitle Options: English, French, Spanish Sound Processing: 5.1: 5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects 2: PCM stereo 1: PCM mono Additional Features: "Acting Carrie" documentary wth Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, and Betty Buckley "Visualizing Carrie" documentary with Brian DePalma "Carrie the Musical" featurette Animated photo gallery "Stephen King and the Evolution of Carrie" biography Original theatrical trailer English: 5.1 Stereo Surround and original mono French: mono Spanish: mono French, Spanish subtitles DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 98 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 0. Scene Selections 1. Logo/Title/The Shower [:11] 2. "It's Carrie!" [:13] 3. Creepy Carrie [3:32] 4. Mrs. White visits [2:48] 5. "You're A Woman Now" [2:30] 6. The Mirror Crack'd [:36] 7. Tommy's Beautiful Poem [2:34] 8. Drill Sgt. Collins [4:14] 9. "One-Two-Three-Four" [2:25] 10. "Telekinesis"/The Slap [2:22] 11. Sue Asks A Favor [4:04] 12. Heatwave [1:14] 13. For The Love Of Billy [2:29] 14. The Pitch/The Pep Talk [:06] 15. "Why?" [:43] 16. Perseverance/Pighunt [2:54] 17. Mama Says No [2:44] 18. Let You Pull The Rope [1:08] 19. Everybody's Talkin' [2:09] 20. "All Gonna Laugh" [2:26] 21. "Are You Scared?" [3:29] 22. Memory/First Dance [3:25] 23. "We're On Here" [1:13] 24. The Old Switcheroo [2:00] 25. King And Queen [1:21] 26. Crowned In Blood [2:28] 27. Carrie's Revenge [3:13] 28. The Car Toss [6:43] 29. "Devil Has Come Home" [1:26] 30. Mama's Blessing [1:01] 31. The Final Grab [2:15] 32. End Credits [3:00]