In my opinion, I think this movie should be categorised as intense psychological drama. Sissy Spacek portrays Carrie perfectly and I almost cried thinking about her being a lonely girl living in this cruel world in my dreams. The only scary scenes in this movie was her big scary eyes during the prom massacre and the dream sequence where Carrie's arm popped out from the gravestone.
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In my opinion, I think this movie should be categorised as intense psychological drama. Sissy Spacek portrays Carrie perfectly and I almost cried thinking about her being a lonely girl living in this cruel world in my dreams. The only scary scenes in this movie was her big scary eyes during the prom massacre and the dream sequence where Carrie's arm popped out from the gravestone.
I do agree.... When I first seen Carrie, the movie scared me to hell. The effects stated with me. It would make sense why a person could view the movie as "horror ". But now, I am 43 ..it still can be scary, but I listen to the song that tommy and Carrie danced to on YouTube without watching the movie, etc.....I to found the song and parts of the movie sad, the reason... I could be wrong... But at the time we would have experienced such, well some of us has been through the same thing, even boys... The ridiculing, loneliness, wanting to feel the experience of "love", etc.... We get out of school and become older ..... Oh how we forget where we came from....
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The very first time I saw the film...in a public movie theater within a month or so of its initial release...the final scare, when Carrie's hand explodes from the grave to grasp Sue's wrist, had no effect on me as a fright moment. The entire audience in the theater surrounding me reacted with a great scream of horror. But I was weeping so intensely that I didn't respond in any way to the shock. For me, the core impact of this film was and remains its personal tragedy, not its horror element. IMO that is what makes it so remarkable and potent in a wide field of movies on similar subjects.
What do you think? You seem to respond to the film in a way very similar to how I respond to it.
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It's a horror movie with depth, but ultimately still a horror film.
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For me, it's clearly a Horror film due to the telekinesis aspect of the plot.
Any film with shocks and suspense that includes an "other-worldly" component move a film into the Horror genre, imo anyway.
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This is pure horror, and I can't see categorizing it otherwise. Because the characterization and plotline are developed FAR more than ever happens in films, ordinarily, there is certainly a psychological drama going on as an undercurrent through the whole film, which adds immendely to the film's effect -- but it is a side issue, not the main plot.
Only if you considered that none of the supernatural stuff really happened, that it was all in Carrie's mind, could it be categorized primarily as a psychological drama.
Years ago I took a college course on horror movies. One of the films we watched was Carrie; and on the midterm, we had to write an essay arguing for why Carrie was a horror movie. One of the points I made was that the character of Carrie was an outsider, someone ostracized from the group or mainstream society, a cultural monster if you will. In horror movies, the villain is often someone who doesn't fit in with society's cultural norms. Norman Bates, for example, is a grown man who still lives with his overbearing mother; he is clumsily awkward with an unusual taxidermy hobby, and he likes to peep on girls undressing--all of which sets him up to be a creepy villain. As a painfully shy loner who lives with her fanatically religious mother, Carrie too does not fit in with society's cultural norms and is, therefore, appropriately set up to be the one to unleash horror at the prom.
There were other points too, some of which I don't specifically recall right now. I still have a copy of the midterm somewhere, so when I find it, I'll reread what I wrote and edit this post.
I think it was obviously meant to be a horror movie but I found it just sad and not scary. The only parts I found scary were the last scene with her mom and the ending scene with the dream.
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Well not every horror film has to be someone getting killed every five seconds.
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It's more Horror in a fuller sense. It is certainly not a Slasher film, but there is more to Horror than just the slashers. I certainly find Carrie's mother to be the foremost terrifying part of this movie. *beep* chilling.
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