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Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving and John Travolta in... Stephen King's / Brian De Palma's...

Carrie

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1278L )
(1.33:1) (4 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

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Carrie
1976 - 97 min. - Color
Genre: Horror
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen has taken her throne in the pantheon of modern American myth. High school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. Soles, and Nancy Allen plot to avenge themselves on ostracized fellow student and budding telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) after they get in trouble for pelting her with tampons. When they get popular boy Tommy Ross (William Katz) to be her date for the prom, the stage is set for some heart-rending cruelty and fiery retribution. De Palma expertly uses split screens, slow motion, color filters, and tracking shots to imbue the proceedings with a haunting, allegorical elegance. Piper Laurie plays Carrie's mentally ill, devoutly Christian mom; she's brilliant, as is Spacek. John Travolta has a memorable pre-SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER role as one of the girls' beer-guzzling boyfriends. There was finally a sequel in 1999, as well as a short-lived Broadway musical.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her fanatical mother (Piper Laurie), only causes her classmates' vicious cruelty to escalate, despite the attentions of her overly solicitous gym teacher (Betty Buckley). Finally, when the venomous Chris Hargenson (Nancy Allen) engineers a reprehensible prank at the school prom, Carrie lashes out in a horrifying display of her heretofore minor telekinetic powers. Many films had featured school bullies, but Carrie was one of the first to focus on the special brand of cruelty unique to teenage girls. Carrie's world is presented as a snake pit, where the well-to-do female students all have fangs --- even the reticent Sue Snell (Amy Irving) --- and all the males are blind pawns, sexually twisted around the fingers of Chris and her evil cronies. The talented supporting cast includes John Travolta, P.J. Soles, and William Katt. One of the genre's true classics, the film was followed by a sequel in 1999, as well as by a famously unsuccessful Broadway musical adaptation that starred Betty Buckley, the movie's gym teacher, as Margaret White. --- Robert Firsching

Stephen King's first novel was also his first work adapted for the screen and, with the arguable exception of The Shining, is still the best, thanks largely to a remarkable performance from Sissy Spacek as Carrie White and a surprisingly subtle, intelligent presentation by director Brian De Palma. De Palma wisely doesn't focus on Carrie's strange power to move objects with her mind in the first act . Instead, he emphasizes her miserable existence as a high school outcast with a remarkably awful home life, and Spacek's performance brings Carrie to painfully vivid life. Carrie White personifies every high school student who didn't fit in, and Spacek makes her sympathetic without making us wonder why people pick on her; when Carrie finally takes her revenge, Spacek transforms her into a monster with a strange dignity, at once terrifying and heroic. DePalma presents the story in clear, well-paced fashion, for the most part avoiding the all-too-obvious homages to other filmmakers that often mark his work and (with the exception of the split screen for Carrie's rampage at the prom) laying off distracting visual trickery, letting his cast and Larry Cohen's screenplay do the work. Often regarded as a watershed of '70s mainstream horror, Carrie is at the same time one of the truest and most painfully perceptive films about the high school caste system; nothing would touch it in this regard until Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1996. --- Mark Deming

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Cast for Carrie

Sissy Spacek - Carrie White
Piper Laurie - Margaret White
Amy Irving - Sue Snell
William Katt - Tommy Ross
John Travolta - Billy Nolan
Nancy Allen - Chris Hargenson
Betty Buckley - Miss Collins
Sidney Lassick - Mr. Fromm
Stefan Gierasch - Principal Morton
Priscilla Pointer - Mrs. Snell
Michael Talbott - Freddy
Cameron de Palma - Boy On Bicycle
P.J. Soles - Norma Watson
Anson Downes - Ernest
Doug Cox - The Beak
Noelle North - Frieda
Edie McClurg - Helen

Crew for Carrie

Brian De Palma - Director
Paul Monash - Producer
Larry Cohen - Screenwriter
Lawrence D. Cohen - Screenwriter
Stephen King - Book Author
Mario Tosi - Cinematographer
Pino Donaggio - Composer (Music Score)
Paul Hirsch - Editor
Bill Kenney - Production Designer
Jack Fisk - Art Director
William Kennedy - Art Director
Louis A. Stroller - Associate Producer
Robert Gould - Set Decorator
Rosanna Norton - Costume Designer
Wes Dawn - Makeup
Gregory M. Auer - Special Effects
Ken Pepiot - Special Effects
Donald Heitzer - First Assistant Director
Bert Hallberg - Sound/Sound Designer
Dick Vorisek - Sound/Sound Designer
Richard Weiker - Stunts Coordinator

Awards for Carrie

Best Actress (nom) Sissy Spacek 1976 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Emile Kuri 1976 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Roland Anderson 1976 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Hal Pereira 1976 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Edith Head 1976 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Piper Laurie 1976 Academy
Best Actress Sissy Spacek 1976 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Direction Carrie 1976 New York Film Critics Circle

Feature Details

Title: Carrie
Feature Release Date: 1976
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 97 Minutes
Chapters: 74
Picture: Open Matte
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CAV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 31 Oct 1991
Catalog Number: CC1278L
UPC: 715515000154
ISBN: 1-55940-220-2
Manufacturer: DADC USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 4
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1278L
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving and John Travolta in... Stephen King's / Brian De Palma's...

Carrie

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1278L )
(1.33:1) (4 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

One of the Best Versions on LaserDisc
See the History of Criterion LaserDiscs at DaDon's...

Carrie
1976 - 97 min. - Color
Genre: Horror
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen has taken her throne in the pantheon of modern American myth. High school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. Soles, and Nancy Allen plot to avenge themselves on ostracized fellow student and budding telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) after they get in trouble for pelting her with tampons. When they get popular boy Tommy Ross (William Katz) to be her date for the prom, the stage is set for some heart-rending cruelty and fiery retribution. De Palma expertly uses split screens, slow motion, color filters, and tracking shots to imbue the proceedings with a haunting, allegorical elegance. Piper Laurie plays Carrie's mentally ill, devoutly Christian mom; she's brilliant, as is Spacek. John Travolta has a memorable pre-SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER role as one of the girls' beer-guzzling boyfriends. There was finally a sequel in 1999, as well as a short-lived Broadway musical.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her fanatical mother (Piper Laurie), only causes her classmates' vicious cruelty to escalate, despite the attentions of her overly solicitous gym teacher (Betty Buckley). Finally, when the venomous Chris Hargenson (Nancy Allen) engineers a reprehensible prank at the school prom, Carrie lashes out in a horrifying display of her heretofore minor telekinetic powers. Many films had featured school bullies, but Carrie was one of the first to focus on the special brand of cruelty unique to teenage girls. Carrie's world is presented as a snake pit, where the well-to-do female students all have fangs --- even the reticent Sue Snell (Amy Irving) --- and all the males are blind pawns, sexually twisted around the fingers of Chris and her evil cronies. The talented supporting cast includes John Travolta, P.J. Soles, and William Katt. One of the genre's true classics, the film was followed by a sequel in 1999, as well as by a famously unsuccessful Broadway musical adaptation that starred Betty Buckley, the movie's gym teacher, as Margaret White. --- Robert Firsching

Stephen King's first novel was also his first work adapted for the screen and, with the arguable exception of The Shining, is still the best, thanks largely to a remarkable performance from Sissy Spacek as Carrie White and a surprisingly subtle, intelligent presentation by director Brian De Palma. De Palma wisely doesn't focus on Carrie's strange power to move objects with her mind in the first act . Instead, he emphasizes her miserable existence as a high school outcast with a remarkably awful home life, and Spacek's performance brings Carrie to painfully vivid life. Carrie White personifies every high school student who didn't fit in, and Spacek makes her sympathetic without making us wonder why people pick on her; when Carrie finally takes her revenge, Spacek transforms her into a monster with a strange dignity, at once terrifying and heroic. DePalma presents the story in clear, well-paced fashion, for the most part avoiding the all-too-obvious homages to other filmmakers that often mark his work and (with the exception of the split screen for Carrie's rampage at the prom) laying off distracting visual trickery, letting his cast and Larry Cohen's screenplay do the work. Often regarded as a watershed of '70s mainstream horror, Carrie is at the same time one of the truest and most painfully perceptive films about the high school caste system; nothing would touch it in this regard until Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1996. --- Mark Deming

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Cast for Carrie

Sissy Spacek - Carrie White
Piper Laurie - Margaret White
Amy Irving - Sue Snell
William Katt - Tommy Ross
John Travolta - Billy Nolan
Nancy Allen - Chris Hargenson
Betty Buckley - Miss Collins
Sidney Lassick - Mr. Fromm
Stefan Gierasch - Principal Morton
Priscilla Pointer - Mrs. Snell
Michael Talbott - Freddy
Cameron de Palma - Boy On Bicycle
P.J. Soles - Norma Watson
Anson Downes - Ernest
Doug Cox - The Beak
Noelle North - Frieda
Edie McClurg - Helen

Crew for Carrie

Brian De Palma - Director
Paul Monash - Producer
Larry Cohen - Screenwriter
Lawrence D. Cohen - Screenwriter
Stephen King - Book Author
Mario Tosi - Cinematographer
Pino Donaggio - Composer (Music Score)
Paul Hirsch - Editor
Bill Kenney - Production Designer
Jack Fisk - Art Director
William Kennedy - Art Director
Louis A. Stroller - Associate Producer
Robert Gould - Set Decorator
Rosanna Norton - Costume Designer
Wes Dawn - Makeup
Gregory M. Auer - Special Effects
Ken Pepiot - Special Effects
Donald Heitzer - First Assistant Director
Bert Hallberg - Sound/Sound Designer
Dick Vorisek - Sound/Sound Designer
Richard Weiker - Stunts Coordinator

Awards for Carrie

Best Actress (nom) Sissy Spacek 1976 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Emile Kuri 1976 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Roland Anderson 1976 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Hal Pereira 1976 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Edith Head 1976 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Piper Laurie 1976 Academy
Best Actress Sissy Spacek 1976 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Direction Carrie 1976 New York Film Critics Circle

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