Carrie (1976)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Brian De Palma

Writers: Lawrence D. Cohen, Brian De Palma

Cinematographer: Mario Tosi

Composer: Pino Donaggio

Cast: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, Betty Buckley, Nancy Allen, John Travolta

Carrie White (an outstanding Spacek), the product of a repressed upbringing at the hands of her deranged, fanatical Christian mother, a late bloomer, gets invited to the senior prom by the handsome, charismatic athlete Tommy Ross, but not all of her classmates wish her the dream night that she deserves, in De Palma’s viscerally entertaining horror film, which comes across like a remake of Psycho (1960) and American Graffiti (1973) directed by David Hamilton. Iain.Stott