

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Acting
Spacek's full-body trembling—actualMethod acting, she slept in blood.
Direction
De Palma's slow-motion prom sequence: operatic, cruel, unforgettable.
Cinematography
That soft-focus opening locker room—pure voyeuristic dread.

Director
Brian De Palma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The pig's blood was real syrup and food coloring that dried sticky; Spacek insisted on doing the prom scene in one take.
Stephen King threw the first draft in the trash; his wife Tabitha fished it out and told him to finish. Teen girls with telekinesis literally built his career.