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- Once De Palma came on board, Cohen was forced to make further cuts, transforming Carrie into a leaner, meaner scream machine without sacrificing the story’s emotional core. According to Nancy Allen, the prom sequence was one of the last of the film to be shot, on the same massive Culver City Studios soundstage that had once housed the Batcave.
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Jan 5, 2023 · The prom scene is the most iconic scene from the movie, recognisable to those who have never even seen it. Banned from the prom after bullying Carrie, Chris (Nancy Allen) plots her revenge, setting up a bucket of pig’s blood to fall on Carrie’s head in front of the school.
Despite Margaret's protests, she prepares for prom. Margaret sees Carrie's telekinetic powers and denounces her as a witch. During prom, Chris and Billy hide under the stage while the other conspirators switch the ballots to ensure Carrie wins the Prom Queen title.
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- Sissy Spacek's Preparation
- Piper Laurie's Performance
- Norma's Death
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While Carrie Fisher, Glenn Close, Linda Blair, and others auditioned for the title role inCarrie, director Brian De Palma was set on casting Amy Irving in the role. But when famed production designer Jack Fisk suggested his wife Sisssy Spacek audition, everything changed. Spacek wore a sailor dress made for her as a child and smeared Vaseline in he...
To prepare for her role as Carrie, Sissy Spacek deliberately isolated herself from the rest of her cast members while on set. She would hole up in her trailer, which was adorned with a slew of religious regalia including Gustave Dore's illustrated Bible. Spacek also examined the body language of those stoned to death for their sins. Following her p...
Piper Laurie also scored an Oscar nod for her performance as Margaret White, Carrie's abusive and religiously fanatical mother. The role marked the first time Laurie acted in a film since The Hustlerin 1961. RELATED: 10 Differences Between Carrie Remake & Original 1976 Movie Upon landing the part, Laurie genuinely thought her character was so histr...
The character of Norma (P.J. Soles) in Carriedies via fire hose. While filming the scene, Soles became severely injured when the intense water pressure from the hose popped her eardrums. When Norma falls to the floor writhing in pain, the reaction is 100% authentic. De Palma opted to keep the shot in the film, even though Soles was so badly hurt th...
Brian De Palma has forged a reputation as a director who often pays homage to his cinematic idol, Alfred Hitchcock. In Carrie, De Palma makes at least three connections to Hitchcock's iconic horror movie Psycho. The high-school in the film is named Bates High after Norman Bates in Psycho. So too is the Bates Packing meat-plant seen later in the fil...
One of the most memorable shots in the film occurs during the prom scene, in which Carrie's vertiginous mental state is depicted with a piece of dizzying camerawork. The shot was achieved by setting the two actors, Spacek and William Katt, on a platform that rotated in one direction, while the camera tracks in the opposition direction. The shot was...
The iconic prom scene in Carrietook two weeks and roughly 35 takes to create. Corn syrup was used for the gallons of pig's blood the bullying teens dump on Carrie during the climax of the movie. RELATED: The Cast Of Carrie (1976): Where Are They Now? To remain in the character's tormented headspace, Spacek returned to her trailer after three full d...
Sissy Spacek was so dedicated to the authenticity of her performance that she refused the use of a stunt double during the graveyard finale, in which only her hand appears bursting out of the soil. The decision came as a shock to De Palma, who kept insisting on the use of a body double. When Spacek declined, De Palma handed responsibilities to her ...
In the penultimate scene in Carrie, De Palma opted to create an eerie visual effect by filming a shot in reverse. The shot takes place as Sue Snell places flowers on Carrie's grave. To create a surreal effect, the shot was filmed backward. When it came to printing the image, the shot was reversed and run in slow-motion to make it appear slightly of...
Rather than engulfing the White abode in flames, for which a miniature model was used, the original ending of Carriewas meant to be much different. In the original script, a hail of rocks and boulders rain down on the White's house and crush the structure to rubble. The sequence was filmed, but the effect of the rocks did not result in De Palma's l...
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Apr 10, 2018 · The film was directed by Brian De Palma and produced by Paul Monash, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen. The film received two Academy Award nominations, one for Sissy Spacek in the...
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Jul 14, 2024 · However, one of her fellow students, Sue Snell (Amy Irving) feels bad for picking on Carrie, and eventually arranges things so that her boyfriend Tommy (William Katt) will take Carrie to the...
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Oct 18, 2013 · Blood Bath: Behind the Scenes of Carrie's Famous Prom Scene. By Lexi Novak. October 18, 2013. The remake of the 1976 film Carrie (in theaters today) centers on the performances of Chloë Grace...
Nov 3, 2016 · De Palma toys sadistically with his audience, first as Carrie’s prom night dreams are cruelly dashed and finally with Sue Snell’s (Amy Irving) literal dream-turned-nightmare, in which the...
