This is the only adaptation of the novel to add a direct confrontation scene between Chris and Carrie before the prom. In King's book, that weird feeling Tommy experiences after asking Carrie out also seems to be a side effect of Carrie reading his mind. It's clear in the novel that Carrie knows Tommy wanted to take Sue, but Sue was essentially giving him as a prom date to Carrie as a gift, and penance. Carrie accepts this offer less because she has hopes for romance, and more because she so badly wants just to feel like a normal teen girl. Never Found the Body: In a Description Cut, the investigators say this about Carrie, interspersed with a scene of Sue bringing food to Carrie in hiding, and new clothes to disguise herself. Blood-Splattered Innocents: The '02 version ups this with Tommy and Norma having been splattered with blood on them as well due to being near Carrie onstage when it fell with the former having half of his shirt spilled on and the latter getting some on her face.

Carrie was raised isolated from society by her single mother after her father Ralph White left them for another woman. Once she arrives at the prom, the film lingers for a while on the atmosphere and the building tension, but it also takes the time to show you how Carrie’s gown differs from everyone else’s. It’s not just a simpler look, but a slightly more revealing one than you see on any of the other girls. This is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel. It is not an official remake of Brian De Palma's 1976 horror movie. If you read the book and then compare with this telefilm you will find that this version is the most faithful transfer from book to film. In fact, he created over 30 of the same thirties-influenced bias-cut dress: “ We had a clean dress, a just-bloodied dress, we had a wet and bloody dress, we had pre-explosion dress, a dress for when Carrie leaves the prom, a post-explosion dress, and a dress for her arrival home,” he said. “We made five of each.” She leaves with Tommy and arrives at the prom. There she meets Tommy's friend George and his girlfriend, Erika. Carrie is uneasy around them at first but laughs with Erika at their dates goofing off. She laughs when Erika says if they kill each other, she'll just dance with Carrie. When the four sit at their table, Carrie is surprised to see her and Tommy's names on the ballot.Easily Forgiven: Sue forgives Carrie for the prom that killed a lot of people at the school and says it wasn't her fault. Justified, since for most of that sequence Carrie seems to be walking around in a dream state, and before her powers are activated she seems to have a seizure from the stress of being coated in pig's blood. Plus, when Sue revives Carrie, she ends up getting all of Carrie's memories. So she truly knows that Carrie wasn't malicious. Carrie researches about telekinesis for better understatement, while in the novel, she never does so. Death by Adaptation: Kenny and Tina survived in the book but both die in the disaster. Helen's fate is not said in the book but she's shown dying too. Subverted with Miss Desjardin - she's implied to die but is one of the survivors being interviewed. Room 101: The closet, of course. However, in this version, Carrie manages to make it into a refuge of sorts from Margaret's insanity, hiding a stash of fashion and gossip magazines in there. Norma as well, who could be seen laughing at Tina's taunts during the baseball game and says in her testimony that she didn't know whether to slap Carrie or feel sorry for her. She redeems herself at the prom by being nice and complimenting her.

For the moment when the prom goes up in flames, the crew avoided any need for fancy special effects and simply lit the entire set on fire. Talking to Yahoo! Movies, William Katt, who played Carrie’s prom date, Tommy Ross, claimed that the sound stage actually caught fire. He explained, “I remember being on set when they lit off the fire, because we were doing stuff out of sequence, right? I was already supposed to be lying on the ground, dead. So they lit the stage on fire, and the actual soundstage caught fire. And the AD was screaming for everybody to get out, and Brian was yelling for the camera department to keep rolling.” Horror cinema flourished in the 1970s, and Brian De Palma‘s Carrie was one of the genre’s most successful outputs. Adapted from Stephen King’s 1974 novel of the same name, Carrie further boasted Sissy Spacek’s career following her acclaimed role in Terrence Mailk’s 1973 crime drama Badlands. It’s hard to imagine anyone else playing the troubled, telekinesis-possessed teenager Carrie White; Spacek fully embodies the role with horrifying verve. How We Got Here: The only adaptation to follow this route. We start off two weeks after the disaster with the detectives interviewing the survivors. For all of her lonely childhood and misunderstood teenage life, Carrie, an only child, whose father abandoned his family and later died in a construction accident, was disciplined for being taken by curses and secretly abused and beaten into submission and mistreated by her mentally ill religiously fanatical mother for everything on a daily basis. In the 2013 remake of Carrie, Carrie was born in 1995 and was buried in 2013, meaning the film is set in 2013.

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In an alternate ending, we see Sue giving birth to the baby mentioned by Carrie. But instead of a baby, a blood-covered arm comes out (Carrie's?). Sue wakes up screaming revealing that the arm was her mother's. Tina Blake. While she is one of Chris's friends in the book, she isn't as big a bully and she isn't in on the prank, which she is in the film. Additionally, she becomes a bit of a ditz, while she didn't have much of a personality in the book. Beauty Inversion: Angela Bettis as the title character. Drab clothes, messy hair and something about not washing her face or anything definitely hid any beauty that she had, making it that much more special when she went to the prom.

Fanservice: The shower scene has some of the Ultras still in the middle of getting dressed, so Chris and Helen are still in their bras. Tina is just in a towel too. Prior to Carrie freaking out, we see her (surprisingly) toned abdomen and one of her legs. The incidents of the rain of stones in both the past, when Carrie was a child, and in the present, when she destroys her house. Both scenes were cut. Post-prom events are shuffled. After killing most of her graduating class, Carrie stumbles bloody and barefoot out of the school, and follows Chris and Billy as they try to escape. She uses her powers to send their vehicle into gruesome collisions that kill them both. Then, she goes home to seek comfort from her mother, which of course doesn't go well. After Carrie has murdered Margaret, Sue stumbles in and Carrie asks her--with her mouth--why she had to get involved. Then, she telekinetically throws Sue free of the White home, and collapses it onto herself. Only in Florida: Where else would a girl with Psychic Powers who faked her death run and hide in? The one place where such a thing would pass for "normal." Justified in that Sue lampshades that Florida was as far as she could take Carrie before having to return. In the aftermath of this version, Carrie did not die, because Sue later came to her place and managed to revive her by performing CPR. She survived her post-prom ordeal with the help of Sue, hid in the ruins of the school and later escaped to Florida with Sue’s help, who drove her there. Carrie later went on to help other teens with their telekinesis in a hidden manner.

Ray of Hope" Ending: This is the only version where Carrie survives, with Sue helping her escape to Florida. While we don't find out what happened (due to the planned mini-series being canceled), if Carrie was able to successfully hide her identity, she might have been able to have a relatively happy life after.

To She's All That where Tommy remarks that because Freddie Prinze, Jr. turned "a supermodel, but we're not supposed to notice because she's wearing glasses" into a Prom Queen is notably similar to Sue's request that Tommy take Carrie to prom. Bonus points for Carrie outright mentioning Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, of which She's All That is a modernisation.

Carrie witnessed as Margaret agonized to her death, and screamed in terror over her loss. Carrie's powers then manifested on the loose, bringing the house down over her. Carrie rushes to her closet, carrying her mother and stayed there as the house came down, dying. When Billy sees Carrie out on the road and decides to run her over, Chris screams at him to stop. She wanted Carrie humiliated, not turned into roadkill. She did think this in the book, but did nothing to stop Billy. In the 2013 remake, Carrie White mentioned that she inherited her telekinetic power from either her father Ralph, or from her great-grandmother Sadie Cochran, who was the mother of Judith Cochran, the mother-in-law of John Brigham, the grandmother of Margaret Brigham. Sadie, like her great-granddaughter, was telekinetic. She died of heart failure at the age of 66, possibly from straining herself with her own power.