The original Carrie horror movie.

[Brian37]

One hokey thing about the original movie was at the end when Carrie's mother tried to kill her by stabbing her, and Carrie used her telekinesis to throw kitchen knives to kill her mother. The motif was her mother's  hands were stabbed and pinned in the doorway between the kitchen and living room with her arms spread like Jesus on the cross where the movie implies she dies. There is no physical way in reality a knife could hold the weight of an adult body up like that. The makers of the movie didn't even bother to consider that a limp body wouldn't have the legs standing straight up. Of course it is just a movie. But if you die like that, at least your legs should be bent because of gravity.

And this is where Neil Degrasse Tyson points out that the nighttime sky in Titanic when the ship sank, was all wrong.

I still LOVE the movie Carrie, but I still cant get over some aspects of it.

[onlinebiker]

The book was better.

[Brian37]

The book was better.

The original movie was still awesome even looking back with all the flaws. 

It takes suspension of disbelief with both a book and a movie like that.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The book was better.

The original movie was still awesome even looking back with all the flaws. 

It takes suspension of disbelief with both a book and a movie like that.

It takes a suspension of disbelief with any work of fiction. Or, if you happen to be an Aesthetic philosopher, secondary belief.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The book was better.

I’ve only managed to get through one Stephen King book and two film adaptations. Just not my cup of tea.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

And that was one point that bugged me about the adaptation: in the novel, her death was a bit different. In it, she uses telekinesis to slow her mother's heart. And you know how the death went in the film. Besides the fact that DePalma decided to create a parallel with St. Sebastian, which, while it might make sense for Brian DePalma (an Italian-American who likely has a working knowledge of Catholicism), does not make sense for Margaret White, who is (at least in the book), not only a Fundamentalist Christian (which, as anyone who's read a Chick Tract knows, has severe issues with Catholicism), but is one whose views are so bizarre that she and her late husband had to create their own denomination that was extreme enough for them, it was apparently changed for budgetary reasons. Somehow, the special effects that made this big sequence possible were less expensive than something that I'm 99.44% certain could be done ON A MINIMALIST STAGE WITH NO PROPS WHATSOEVER.

[Brian37]

The book was better.

I’ve only managed to get through one Stephen King book and two film adaptations. Just not my cup of tea.

Boru

In general, I am not a fan of supernatural motifs. Carrie and Cujo are the only two Stephen King movies I can get through.

I like slasher movies more, like Friday The 13th and even the more gory b movie "I Spit On Your Grave".

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’ve only managed to get through one Stephen King book and two film adaptations. Just not my cup of tea.

Boru

In general, I am not a fan of supernatural motifs. Carrie and Cujo are the only two Stephen King movies I can get through.

I like slasher movies more, like Friday The 13th and even the more gory b movie "I Spit On Your Grave".

Really? You couldn’t get through ‘Shawshank’ or ‘The Green Mile’? Shame, those are terrific films.

Boru

[Brian37]

And that was one point that bugged me about the adaptation: in the novel, her death was a bit different. In it, she uses telekinesis to slow her mother's heart. And you know how the death went in the film. Besides the fact that DePalma decided to create a parallel with St. Sebastian, which, while it might make sense for Brian DePalma (an Italian-American who likely has a working knowledge of Catholicism), does not make sense for Margaret White, who is (at least in the book), not only a Fundamentalist Christian (which, as anyone who's read a Chick Tract knows, has severe issues with Catholicism), but is one whose views are so bizarre that she and her late husband had to create their own denomination that was extreme enough for them, it was apparently changed for budgetary reasons. Somehow, the special effects that made this big sequence possible were less expensive than something that I'm 99.44% certain could be done ON A MINIMALIST STAGE WITH NO PROPS WHATSOEVER.

You have a far deeper working knowledge of this film than I do.

But between the bullies the Carrie character had in the movie and the abusive insane mother in that movie, the mother in that movie is actually worse than the bullies. A parent's job is to protect their child, but while the mother in the movie claimed to be doing as such, she was a psycho. 

At least with Carrie's classmates, most of them, accepted what they did to her was wrong. Carrie's mother simply could not accept her daughter was not a clone of her.

[Athene]

Good film. 
An even better book, though I read it some time ago--in high school, I think. I seem to recall some of it being written as newspaper accounts or police reports, but I can't be certain. I remember finding it pretty riveting though.
I'll have to read it again. It'll be like brand new.