Carrie (1976 film)

Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film based on Stephen Kings 1974 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Brian De Palma with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen.

Carrie White Sissy Spacek, a shy and friendless 17yearold girl, is the scapegoat and outcast of her school. At home, she is abused by her mentally unstable mother Margaret Piper Laurie, who is a Christian fundamentalist.While in the showers after gym class, Carrie unexpectedly experiences her first period and fears she is bleeding to death. The other girls, including Chris Hargensen Nancy Allen and Sue Snell Amy Irving, add to her shame and humiliation by pelting her with tampons and sanitary pads. The gym teacher Miss Collins Betty Buckley intervenes and as Carrie becomes more frantic, a light bulb bursts in the showers. ........

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