Carrie 1976

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A voluptuously shot horror movie. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There is little suspense or dramatic tension; everything plays out like bad melodrama or cheap exploitation. Read more

Richard Eder, New York Times: It is sometimes funny in a puzzling kind of way, it is generally overwrought in an irritating kind of way, and once in a while it is inappropriately touching. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: More superpowers from Brian De Palma, this time in high school, in a screen version of a Stephen King novel that's become a horror classic. Read more

Barbara Thomas, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Young director Brian DePalma is fast making his reputation in the genre of the suspense-horror film. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: This 1976 thriller, about a high school outcast (Sissy Spacek) who uses her telekinetic powers to massacre the graduating class, contains a number of interesting ideas. But as with most of his films, De Palma can't keep track of them. Read more

Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News: With each new movie, [De Palma] comes closer to mastering Hitchcock's trademark of teasing suspense and tongue-in-cheek horror. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Brian De Palma's Carrie is an absolutely spellbinding horror movie, with a shock at the end that's the best thing along those lines since the shark leaped aboard in Jaws. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: An exercise in high style that even the most unredeemably rational among moviegoers should find enormously enjoyable. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: The fierce sympathy it extends to its unfashionable central character puts the film a million miles above the contemporary line in sick exploitation. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Carrie is a modest but effective shock-suspense drama about a pubescent girl, her evangelical mother and cruel schoolmates. Read more