What’s the story that opened him up to a world of cocaine?? Lol

@@baronvg I don’t know if it started his cocaine use but I remember reading that he was on it while either writing IT or Maximum Overdrive

@@scantron20 def

@@baronvg he was working night and day to support his family. He started using it as a pick-me-up to get him through and became habit-forming. But to be fair - he did his best work before he got sober in my opinion.

I agree, the book is amazing. I do like De Palma's film, but it does still pale in comparison with the book.

Its horror if you are a bully xD

@@JoeKerr019 Or one of the random bystanders she decided to murder.

I mean, those aren't mutually exclusive. Most horror movies are also tragedies.

Uhhhh it’s also a horror

I was saying that Carrie may be a horror film, but it’s also a tragic film about a tragic character. And that sentence is a reference to Joker

When I was a kid her eyes used to scare the crap out of me and her slow walk when she leaves the prom. Carrie is such a great movie.

Same. I never could understand why people thought Sue and Tommy were in on it. It’s clear Sue wanted nothing to do with Chris after she ditched the prom.

Same! I'm always shocked they don't see Sue's kindness

And the friends that they talk to when they're going into the prom. The girl who compliments Carrie's dress. I always felt bad about the few people who were actually nice to her ending up collateral damage to what stupid Chris & Billy & Norma & the other jerks did.

Totally!!!! Innocence, fear, pain, love, hate and thirst for blood... all in one!

Interestingly, not long ago I listened to an audiobook version of the novel, read by Sissy Spacek. Phenomenol there too!

IMO Carrie didn't really "break" until Tommy was killed. That's when she completely lost it, and in the novel, she destroyed the entire town!

@@donniehagy5125 yes but also in the novel she stopped her mother's heart as well. A lot was filmed but cut from the Original version but shown in the 2002 version.

They must watch ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’. Sissy Spacek is absolutely remarkable as Loretta Lynn.

She's now 99 years old (Priscilla Pointer)

Yeah i agree. These guys said they didnt think it was needed but as you say, it was showing that the innocent girl, the one trying to help her, was traumatised for life. Just one more layer of tragedy.

Dressed To Kill, BlowOut, Carrie, Scarface, The Untouchables, Mission:Impossible... I don't understand why De Palma isn't more widely respected these days.

@@mrkelso Along with Sisters and Body Double. A lot of people were cold to The Black Dahlia, but I liked it. Sisters was his first major hit from my memory. With Margot Kidder.

@@mrkelso and a comedy called Wise Guys

Dressed to Kill is an underrated film. Very good.

Love it.

Absolutely. IMHO his best book and best movie, with the book being even better than the movie. Its ironic that the master of supernatural horror's best stuff has no supernatural elements at all, 'Misery' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'.

I came to the comments to say the same thing!

@@ravenmasters2467 it's not his best movie. way too simple.

She was nominated, so was Sissy Spacek.

RIP Piper

i was 13 when i saw this and thought it was great, later when i was 16 and got into to reading and King became my favorite i read carrie and it was ok i think seeing the movie first kinda ruined the book experience for me. but i love all his other books.

Actually Margaret is evil but in a different way than Chris. Chris is atheist evil, clearly. Margaret is false Christian evil, and in the book it’s explained why she is the way she is. Margaret White was born Margaret Brigham. Her father got killed in a gun battle and devastated, she seeks out a church to deal with the loss of her Dad. Unfortunately, she began attending a false Christian cult - in this particular case a fundamentalist group and she quickly became a fanatic. When her mother remarried a man named Harold Allison, Margaret denounced them, believing that they were living in sin. In 1960, she met her soon-to-be husband, Ralph White. Margaret later tells Carrie she had sex with Ralph before marriage and regretted having sex before marriage - so much so she wanted to kill herself afterwards - when she found out she was pregnant with Carrie’s older sibling, she intentionally fell down the stairs to induce a miscarriage aka abort/murder the child. After they married, Ralph vowed that their indiscretions would never recur, but one night Ralph tried to seduce Margaret before she threw him out of the house. He returned drunk and while at the Roadhouse, he forced sex with her which Margaret both hated and enjoyed. This resulted in the conception of Carrie. In February 1963, seven months before Carrie's birth, Ralph was killed while working on a construction site (though it is mentioned in the novel that Ralph stopped Margaret from killing the infant Carrie when she started exhibiting her powers early in her life, implying that he died later on). Margaret then gave birth alone to Carrie while in her house without medical assistance, causing Margaret to lose some blood. Her relationship with her daughter was extremely abusive from the time Carrie was a baby. This deeply affected Carrie throughout the years, putting great strain on her by homeschooling her into becoming a part of her fundamentalist community. Whenever Margaret believed that Carrie had sinned at school, she would throw her in a specially decorated closet to pray for forgiveness (out of no fault of her own), usually leaving her there for several hours or even days as a punishment. Margaret believes that anything or everything can be a sin and harbors extremely restrictive views on sexuality. She feels that only "loose women" develop breasts, or "dirty pillows" as she calls them; she feels that she herself developed breasts due to the way Carrie was conceived. When Carrie has her first menstrual cycle at the age of 16, Margaret refers to it as the 'Curse of Blood' and claims that it was brought on by some sort of sexual sin on Carrie's part. After berating Carrie, Margaret locks her in the "prayer closet" until it is time for bed. When Carrie is asked to the prom by Tommy Ross, Margaret initially forbids it, but Carrie insists on this last opportunity to fit in and reinforces her demand with her telekinetic power. Once Carrie makes her own dress, Margaret insists that they burn it and pray for forgiveness, disapproving of the fact that it shows cleavage. Carrie then uses her powers to push her mother out of the room. While waiting for Carrie to come home from the prom, Margaret decides to “kill the sin”. She goes so far as to hide a butcher knife beneath the folds of her dress. Once Carrie arrives home, having telekinetically destroyed the high school and everything else in the town after falling victim to a cruel prank, both are surprised to find out that they each intend to kill the other. Margaret stabs Carrie in her shoulder. Carrie kills her mother by telekinetically slowing down her heart to a stop; Margaret recites the Lord's Prayer as she dies. The irony is that she thinks she’s going to Heaven for her “good deeds” but in reality, she’s going to Hell and yet who is the one who shows some compassion for her in the end? It’s Carrie. In the book, unlike the film, Mortally wounded, Carrie makes her way to the roadhouse where she was conceived. She sees Chris and Billy leaving, having been informed of the destruction by one of Billy's friends. After Billy attempts to run Carrie over, she telekinetically takes control of his car and sends it racing into the tavern wall, killing both Billy and Chris. Sue finds Carrie collapsed in the parking lot, bleeding out from the knife wound. The two have a brief telepathic conversation (revealing that Sue has telepathy), in which Carrie realizes that Sue was not involved in the prank and forgives her for her past cruelty. Carrie then dies, crying out for her mother.

and the way she walks down the steps with her hands out, all poised and ladylike

My favorite book! Second is *Watership Down* and third is *Watchers* (Dean Koontz.) Did you know...? Stephen King didn't have time to read all of the other books out there so he had his kids read the books on to tape and he listened to them in his car. He liked Watchers, even tho the kid that read it, didn't. He writes his own books now. One just made into a movie *The Black Phone.*

I've always thought that Amy Irving had a special ethereal beauty (Sue Snell, Tommy's girlfriend. She was forced to retire after she divorced Steven Spielberg because everyone was afraid of offending him.

IMHO his best book and best movie, with the book being even better than the movie. Its ironic that the master of supernatural horror's best stuff has no supernatural elements at all, 'Misery' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'.

@@ravenmasters2467 Stand By Me also.

I think it makes it more so...there's a sense of inevitability to what happens to Carrie that it just makes a maddening amount of tension waiting for it to happen.

William Katt's audition for Luke is actually quite good...I could easily see him getting the part if Mark hadn't.

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Speaking of "audition," the Japanese movie *Audition* would be a great reaction! It's on Bravos 100 Scariest Movie Moments of all time.

she’s one of the greatest actresses of all time. Criminally ignored IMO. Her performance in The Straight Story is stupendous.

She also plays the MC in *Rock and Roll High School* with The Ramones. (The Ramones also sing the theme song to the movie Pet Sematary)

She wore a dumb red cap in Halloween, too! Always thought that was such a weird choice.

And crazy connection: John Travolta made "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" for television, costarring (the much older) Diana Hyland, to whom he became engaged. She was then cast as the mom in "Eight is Enough," filmed four episodes, and then died tragically from breast cancer. Replacing her on the show, as a new character (a widowed schoolteacher) was Betty Buckley.