Carrie (1976)

Rated R

Runtime: 1 hours and 38 minutes

 

Genre: Horror

 

Director: Brian De Palma

 

Writer: Lawrence D. Cohen

 

Actors: Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Piper Laurie

Budget: $1,800,000

Box Office: $33,869,532

Positives:

• Great story structure

• Good slow motion and camera movements

• Nice chemistry

• Smooth music score

• Intriguing color correction

• Amazing direction

• Craziest ending

• Chilling atmosphere

Negatives:

• Some pacing isssues

• The tone quality seems to be off.

• Meanspirited choices were not great

Final Verdict:

Story/Genre 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (8.5)

Characters/Dialogue 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (8.5)

Direction 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (9)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3.5)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4.5)

Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

42/50 8.4/10