Carrie
Some of the type and plot of land power point change , but the basic storey ofStephen King’snovelCarriehas been adapted a whopping four dissimilar times . As has become well - known , King was n’t positive he had anything inCarrie , at that peak still not having let on out as a author . He threw the page ofCarrieinto the glass , only for wife Tabitha to reclaim them and barrack him to finish it . give thanks goodness for that , asCarrieended up King ’s first publish novel , and also the first King work to become a motion picture , just two years after in 1976 .
By now , the story ofCarrieneeds picayune introduction . Possessing latent special power since puerility , Carrie ’s journeying into adolescence awakens the full potential of her powers , mainly in the cast of telekinesis . Carrie is a shy , bookish girlburdened with a domineering religious female parent , and the opposite of pop at school . That is until she gets asked to the prom , an infamous joke occur , and Carrie ’s Erinyes claim many lives . Carrie has been adapted into four different movies , and here ’s a look at them all .
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Carrie (1976)
Directed by Brian De Palma , Carrie(1976 ) was a huge hit upon release , and has carved out a lieu as ahorror classic . Sissy Spacek play Carrie White , while Piper Laurie play her menacing mother Margaret . The screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen was quite faithful to the book , although the equipment of calculate at Carrie ’s rampage after it happened was dropped . Amy Irving co - starred as Carrie ’s friend Sue Snell , who ca-ca out much better than she did in the book , and William Katt plays her boyfriend Tommy Ross , who take Carrie to the prom . Nancy Allen and John Travolta unforgettably occupy out the casting as the despicable Chris Hargensen and her violent swain Billy Nolan .
The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
While apparently a sequel toCarriestarring the new telekinetic teenager Rachel Lang ( Emily Bergl),The Rage : Carrie 2is really more of a New ( for the 1990s ) retelling of King ’s narration . Amy Irving reprises the role of Sue Snell , now Rachel ’s guidance counselor . It also turns out that Rachel is Carrie White ’s half - sister ( her Fatherhood was apparently quite fertile ) , link her forthwith to the first film ’s event . Outside of those number , the plot is almost only the same . Rachel begins date a democratic bozo , she ’s publicly chagrin at a large social consequence , and then bolt down basically everyone there with her power . Like Carrie , she also ends up short after her massacre , only to feature in one last panic attack scene before the end credits .
Carrie (2002)
The most obscure of theCarrieadaptations is this 2002 boob tube flick that air out on NBC . write by futureHannibalcreator Bryan Fuller , Carrie(2002 ) casts Angela Bettis as the titular teen , who earn RAF that same year for the indie horror flickMay . Patricia Clarkson assumed the part of Margaret White , while futureLoststar Emilie de Ravin encounter the villainous Chris Hargensen . In an interesting molding change , Sue Snell was played by mordant actress Kandyse McClure , after being bloodless in both the book and prior films . The TVCarriewas in some way closer to the book than De Palma ’s film , and in others vagabond intemperately . The biggest modification was the conclusion , in whichCarriesurvives , and leave to start a new life in Florida of all position .
Carrie (2013)
Infamously among horror fan , the makers ofCarrie ’s 2013 theatrical remaking starring Chloë Grace Moretz repeatedly insist prior to the film ’s release that it was going to be a new adaptation of King ’s Good Book , and not simply a remaking of De Palma ’s film . Yet , by the time it got to theaters , Carrie(2013 ) was fundamentally the same picture audiences saw in 1976 , in some cases lifting intact shot , and adhere so close to Cohen ’s screenplay that they had actually had to credit him as a writer . A pretty pointless dangerous undertaking , Carrie(2013 ) has justifiably been mostly forget .
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