Carrie needs to STOP having the massacre happen immediately after the pigs blood.

Carrie actually RUNS OUT crying as people laugh at her and her peers think they were successful. Carrie then decides to lock them inside with her powers and then proceeds to burn and destroy them GLEEFULLY. She then goes home destroying parts of the town. Not just a couple cars. She tears up the place.

One thing that I really like about the book was Carrie having violent thoughts about the people in her school prior to the prom night.
It showed how she already had a death wish against her bullies, the blood prank and her telekinesis just brought them to the surface with nothing holding her back.

Honestly, I think there are enough plus-sized actresses out there that would go, "You want me to play Carrie? Hell yeah!" because she gets the ultimate revenge on her bullies. Sure it’s a bloody and violent revenge, but as a formerly bullied fat kid, it is kind of empowering. And would rather see a really faithful adaptation otherwise what's the point?

Carrie 2013 had 45 mins cut out of it, all of the book accuarte scenes were cut out I AM SO MADDD!

The TV movie was a pilot for a TV show that never happened. That's why it ended like that

The 2013 film was originally meant to be more faithful but the studio got cold feet & just went with remaking the 1976 film.

I think the whole " Carrie White is fat and ugly" is a total misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the book. Carrie was neglected, abused, and bullied and her appearance reflected that. Actually, at the heart of it Carrie is a totally normal looking girl, and the mocking of her appearance highlights the cruelty of people.

She wears ugly and shapeless clothes. Her hair is greasy and she has pimples because her mom didn't teach her hygiene. She is weird and awkward. The bullying is not meant to reflect reality.
The truth is she was merely described as chunky. What was considered chunky in the 70s would actually be considered fairly normal today, when you consider the lean and slender esthetic of the time. In fact, even until the 90s girls with very normal bodies were called "fat".

When Carrie finally takes control of her life, she looks in the mirror and sees an average girl. When she is picked up from the prom she is actually described as "pretty". Because at that point she is no longer letting her mother's strict puritanical rules color her life.

Sissy Spacek stayed in the fake blood drenched dress and hair for three days to maintain continuity. It stank and was sticky and uncomfortable but it was her idea to do it.

something i wanna say is that carrie, though not being a skinny legend, isnt as fat as people usually tend to think she is when they say "carrie was fat in the book"  in the book, she says shes wide at the waist, but that her legs are like sue snell, whos a skinny popular girl

That's one hell of a way to romanticise religious abuse. As someone who has religious trauma, I wouldn't describe my family and school as "fiercely protecting and loving" me. They were sheltering me. Infantilsing me. Hindering my empathy and capability of thinking for myself.

I enjoy the prom sequence of 2013 the most. I love how Tommy dying is what made her crash out the one guy that was kind

The movie rampages have always bothered me. They make her go into a sorta fugue state/ blackout when she destroys everything, but in the book, it is SO intentional. You get bits of her inner monologue in the book saying “make them suffer, make them cry, etc.” and it’s so obvious that this is revenge long awaited and that she’s finally cracked. Takes so much away from her rage when it’s depicted as a trauma-induced accident on screen.

The 1976 version scared the living daylights out of me. ( especially remembering the ending jump scare.)
I think the acting solidified the characters as close to the book as possible on screen.

The thing with Carrie (2013) was that it wasn't supposed to be a shot-for-shot of the 1976 film. According to the original script, it was supposed to be a modernization of the novel---complete with the town destruction (that we see in the teasers), White Commission questioning, the Rain of Stones, characterization of the popular girls (if you notice, outside of Tina Blake who is Chris' number 2, the other girls get barely any characterization and yet, they get the most brutal deaths---Heather gets thrown into the doors of the gym and the twins get trampled), and more.

What ruined it was executives interference.

That's what makes me sad (especially with seeing the recent photos of Carrie 2026 because they've gotten everything wrong). Carrie (2013) could've been something great with stuff the 1976 film couldn't fit in. And yet, executives couldn't leave it alone. There's even a petition out there.

I am hoping the extended cut will be released because if the Justice League Director's Cut can be released, so can Kimberly Pierce's original vision.

Telekinesis was really big in the 70's with people like Uri Geller bending spoons with his mind on TV, it had an army of believers. That's why it's in so many 70's horror movies like The Exorcist, Carrie, The Medusa Touch, The Fury. It was also an alternative "scientific" explanation for paranormal activities and possession. Today it's been repurposed as a superpower that belongs in the realm of fantasy.

Sounds like they're changing the story completely with the upcoming adaptation.

If they got a conventionally attractive actress to play Carrie AND put on the make up to have her be book accurate, it would be led with complaints on "ugly actresses exist too" as that is what happened to Colin Farrell for his portrayal of The Penguin.

I saw the 2013 version in the theater. She looked so happy at the start of the prom that I wanted to leave, so the movie could end on the happy note that Carrie deserved. But of course I stayed.

There's something to love in all 3 versions I think.

The Flanagan quote worries me. I was hoping for Gerald's Game quality adaptation from him.

watching you not only bring up Carrie's fatness but say that a plus size actress should be cast and then discussing it and  DIRECTLY NAMING FATPHOBIA AS THE CAUSE is so unbelievably powerful and refreshing and I'm so deeply grateful as a fat woman

17:19 That's just not Carrie

I heavily believe that the reason as to why directors don’t cast a person that looks like Carrie is mainly because there’s a wide range of majority who would actually despise and not sympathise with Carrie instead, I mean look at how they treated the movie Precious. People literally turned that movie into a meme, clips were even taken out of context, god knows what people would’ve said about Carrie had it been accurate.