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Originally Posted by The Batlord
It really is. King may not be the greatest actual writer, but he knows how to manipulate emotions really well. Carrie's first half or so, before she actually goes nuts (of course King flubbed the ending, as he is wont to do), is such an obvious teen movie style thing, that it should be horrible, but it legitimately gets me all choked up. By the prom, I'm so rooting for Carrie, even though I know what's gonna happen, and I'm actually rooting for her to kill the douchy ****s.
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The ending is predictable by today's standards but when I first saw it in the early 1980s it was totally unexpected and outstanding. Remember I was watching this film, when video films were still a novelty and it was one of the first batch of horror films released on video.
The earlier part of the film was great and captured the painful existence of a young girl both at home and at school.