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Brenda's Review of Carrie 1976 *Spoilers* · Brenda's Horror Movie Reviews

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning everyone, this is Brenda and I'm back with another review.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we are going to be reviewing 1976 Carrie, and it is shocking to me that this movie is now almost 50 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was technically released November 3rd of 1976, and I don't think I realized until recently that it was shared auditions with Star Wars.
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  SPEAKER_00: The actors and actresses were walking into the same place on the same day, and a lot of them auditioned for both movies at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carrie Fisher read for Carrie, and I just can't imagine her being anybody but Princess Leia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amy Irving and Sissy Spasick both read for Princess Leia.
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  SPEAKER_00: And William Catt, who played Tommy, actually read for Luke Skywalker, and I just can't imagine him being anybody else but the guy who gets hit in the head with a bucket.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really don't think Carrie would have been Carrie without Sissy Spasick and John Travolta and Edie McClerg and Mrs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Steven Spielberg, Amy Irving.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: I just cannot fathom different actors playing those roles.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of them went on to be in other movies like PJ Soles is famous for Halloween, and Nancy Allen was in Robocop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Edie McClure, she was so funny in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and uh oh, Fair Sbueller.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's one who had small parts, but she's very memorable, and I think part of that is her voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stephen King's Carrie is a highly banned book, I guess school boards and parents didn't like it due to the religious tones, but that brings us to Piper Lori.
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  SPEAKER_00: She played Margaret White, and I've never seen a bigger religious nut in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: The part is played so well though, it's like you love to hate her.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's definitely fun to watch when she's on screen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of the girls that played the teenagers were already in their twenties.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sissy Spacich was 26 when the movie came out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in an interview I watched to her, she said that she wore a sailor dress that she had in junior high and put Vaseline in her hair to look greasy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just can't fathom wearing anything from junior high.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like most of Stephen King's work, it's set in Maine and it's Chamberlain this time, and that is the book and the movie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, as always, spoilers, Carrie was bullied in school like so many of us are, or else we were the bully.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's something I'd like people to chime in on.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know if you were a bully or if you were bullied in high school, because high school is those formative years that as I I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like in the 80s it was worse on girls.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know boys get it too, and you know, I feel for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people think that the opening scene, if you ask them and they haven't watched the movie in a long time, is the shower scene, but it's not.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a volleyball scene, and this kind of sets the tone for the whole movie.
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  SPEAKER_00: The girls are screaming at her, you know, she can't hit the ball, feels awkward.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get that.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: I totally get that.
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  SPEAKER_00: She gets hit in the head with a volleyball.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they go in to take their showers, that's when she gets her period and she has never been told by her mother what's going to happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she freaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: She thinks she's dying.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's screaming, she's grabbing the other girls.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would like to think I was that girl who wanted to help her, but I would also be standing back because I wouldn't want her grabbing me with blood all over her hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most people know the movie ends at the prom with pig blood being dumped on her.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I watched it with someone a couple years ago who didn't get it and called it a slow burn, which it is because I think most people that if they go in to watch it, they know what the ending is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I enjoy the entire movie, so I feel like it's like Titanic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something big is gonna happen at the end, but you have all these other things going on before the big moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have all this character build and how they interact with each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, John Travolta, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so mad at him in this movie, and I loved him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I loved him as Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back Cotter.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is one of those movies where I have to say, fuck you, John Travolta.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe he did that.
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  SPEAKER_00: John Travolta uses a sledgehammer to kill a pig to get the blood from the pig to pour on Carrie at the prom.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm mad, but it gets a wine glass because it does affect me.
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  SPEAKER_00: We learned pretty early on in the movie that Carrie has telekinesis and is able to move things.
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  SPEAKER_00: So then when it all goes down in the prom and she's mad, that's when she takes it to a whole nother level.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think Carrie would have been evil if it wasn't for being raised by Margaret White or how the kids treated her at school.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do think were products of our environments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Carrie had a pink dress on for the prom and her mother referred to it as red.
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  SPEAKER_00: She referred to her breast as dirty pillows and said they're all gonna laugh at you, and that sticks out.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're all gonna laugh at you if I had a nickel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Back to the shower scene.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was one girl, Sue Snell, who actually had a bit of a heart after it was all said and done.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were throwing tampons at her because of the blood and telling her to plug it up, and I think she had a bit of a heart, and she's the one that talked Tommy into asking her to the prom, which I don't think there was really any ill intent behind that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna give this movie a wine glass for being eerie.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have that.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Love the prom scene, so it gets a wine glass for the environment.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: Any movie that has a prom in it, I wanna go.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: I think the movie is entertaining from beginning to end, even though some people argue with me on that one.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Wine glass.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: Back to Empathy, I feel for the pig and I feel for Carrie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two wine glasses.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a lot of death at the end after Carrie became evil, so wine glass.
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  SPEAKER_00: All in all, I would give it five wine glasses no matter what.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is one of those movies that stuck with me through the years because the first time I watched it was in high school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you haven't seen it, I think it's definitely worth a watch.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's got John Travolta, Sissy Spacich, Religious Freaks, A Prom, A Lot of Blood.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is supposed to be a series coming out um later this year, and it is tied to Mike Flanagan.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you don't know the story, get caught up.
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  SPEAKER_00: My next little review will be on burnt offerings from 1976.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has Karen Black, Betty Davis, and Oliver Reed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So until next time.