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Watched the original Carrie after realizing I had never seen it all the way through. Man what brilliant storytelling. If you knew nothing going in you might think it's a feel-good coming-of-age film about acceptance until the last 15 minutes, there's really not too much in the way of horror up till that point, aside from some stuff with the mom. The ending had more of an impact now that I actually saw how well it's sold that Carrie's life is finally going to improve, how she finally stands up to her mom and asserts herself. Genius tragic horror. And the last scene, holy smokes. I mean I had seen that part before but imagining it in a theater, people must've gone as nuts as they did at the Psycho twist.

Anyway that's my 40-years-late review, go catch Carrie in theaters, this Stephen King guy's the hot new name in horror.
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