Carrie (2002)
Carrie (2002)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 02:11:53 | 6,43 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 02:11:53 | 6,43 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi
Director: David Carson
This is the story of Carrie White, a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with unbelievable telekinetic powers, and is slowly being pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both cruel classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother. Soon, she discovers she has telekinetic powers; and when the most gruesome of gags is played on her on prom night, all bets are off.
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Let me answer your first question. No, a remake was not necessary. Well, not really. Apparently the powers that be were shooting for a TV series (probably due to the success of "The Dead Zone") and this was to be the pilot. It looks as if the series was not picked up, so Carrie (2002) ends up looking like a remake for remakes sake, but keep in mind, that is not the case.
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As for your second thought, no, this movie did not suck. In fact, it was surprisingly good. Granted, I expected it to be horrible considering not only it was it a remake of a great movie, but it was a made for TV remake of a great movie. Therefore, boobage, sex and profanity are right out the door. That's okay though, this updated version has a great script, a competent cast and gets as close to nudity as it possibly can. Well, boobs would have still been nice. DePalma's shower scene is missed.
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There are a few things I really liked about Carrie (2002) over DePalma's version. The first is the portrayal of Billy (Jesse Cadotte – Scorn), Chris's boyfriend, as a little homicidal is much more faithful to the book then John Travolta's goofy drunk guy of the 1976 version. While not onscreen that much, you still get the impression that Billy has some real serious issues. Cadotte did a wonderful job of coming across as a lunatic, especially since he did not have many lines.
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Also, Angela Bettis does a great job as Carrie. Admittedly I am a little biased because I'm not a big Sissy Spacek fan, but I prefer Bettis's portrayal of Carrie over Spacek's. Don't get me wrong, Spacek is a great actress and did a terrific job in DePalma's version, but I feel Bettis better handles the role of a mentally beat down high schooler than Spacek did.
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While there is good, there is inevitably bad. For instance, while Patricia Clarkson (The Green Mile, The Pledge) does a decent job as Margaret White, Carrie's mother, I don't think there is an actress on this planet that can touch the intensity that Piper Laurie provided in the original movie. Well, maybe Kathy Bates could pull it off, but that's debatable too. Clarkson plays a much more sedated Margaret, while Laurie seemed to have anger and fear coming off her in waves.
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Also, I preferred William Katt's Tommy Ross from the original over Tobias Mehler's Ross. Not to say Mehler's performance was bad (it was actually quite good), but Katt looked more like your All-American white bread high school quarterback. Since Carrie is the epitome of everything high school, this is important.
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All that said, the only thing that really hurts this movie is it does not know what it wants to be. Sometimes the movie feels like the latest teen horror a'la Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, while other times it feels like the movie is paying homage to the original and trying very hard not to be one of the mentioned types of horror. However, there is a very amusing Freddy Prinze reference in the movie that is oh so appropriate.
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Regardless, I really liked this version because there were a few things from the book that never made it in DePalma's version. In particular, two scenes stand out. The first is a meteor shower that happened during Carrie's birth. I always felt this was important because it shows the strength of Carrie's telekinesis. The second scene will not be discussed in this review as it is a spoiler.
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You should give this movie a shot and judge it on it's own merits. I understand that it is impossible not to compare it to the original, I couldn't do that myself, but the movie does pay homage to the 1976 version and it does hold its own.
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Special Features:
- Trailers for Carrie, The Howling, The Fog, Jeepers Creepers and Dead Like Me
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