Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Acting
Spacek's full-body trembling—actualMethod acting, she slept in blood.
Direction
De Palma's slow-motion prom sequence: operatic, cruel, unforgettable.
Cinematography
That soft-focus opening locker room—pure voyeuristic dread.
Director
Brian De Palma
Sissy Spacek
Carrie
Piper Laurie
Margaret White
Amy Irving
Sue Snell
William Katt
Tommy Ross
John Travolta
Billy Nolan
Nancy Allen
Chris Hargenson
Betty Buckley
Miss Collins
P. J. Soles
Norma
Priscilla Pointer
Mrs. Snell
Sydney Lassick
Mr. Fromm
Stefan Gierasch
Mr. Morton
Michael Talbott
Freddy
Doug Cox
The Beak
Noelle North
Frieda
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