Classic Film Friday: Carrie

This film, based on a Stephen King book, is about a girl, who just isn't all the way there. Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a telekinetic, though she doesn't really know it, she is in the showers at school, and wouldn't you know it, she has her period for the first time and freaks out. Because her mother is a Jesus-freak, she doesn't know what is happening with her body, and thus all the other kids do, but tease her.

It gets relatively ugly, pretty fast. Without anyone to talk to, no father, no friends, and a whacked out mother, what is a kid to do? The Gym teacher Miss Collins (Betty Buckley) is her only support network. Maybe because she remember what it was like to be a kid, or maybe she was just a nice person, Miss Collins tries to watch out for Carrie.

But then one of the "in" crowd Sue Snell (Amy Irving) feels bad and tells her boyfriend to ask Carrie to the prom. Which would all be good, except there is deceit afoot. Chris Hargensen (Nancy Allen) and her boyfriend Billy (John Travolta) plan to let Carrie win prom queen, as they have a bucket of pig blood to dump on her and thus publicly embarrass Carrie. And that is when her telekinesis takes over, watch and see the fireworks go off in this 1974 horror classic.