Carrie (2013) Review

CARRIE (2013)

Director: Kimberly Peirce                  Genre: Horror/Thriller

Brief Plot Outline: a misfit teenager take revenge on the classmates who have bullied her by unleashing her newfound supernatural powers, creating havoc at prom.

When watching this movie two scene impressed me the most whilst watching this movie were; when Carrie realises her ‘demonic’ powers and rebels against her mother before leaving for prom by locking her mother in a cupboard using telekinesis. I particularly enjoyed it because of the use of special fx which were done well and cinematography because of the use of close-ups and over the shoulder shots. As shown below:

Another scene which I was impressed with was when Carrie is actually at prom and begins to destroy everything just by using her mind, it impressed me because Chloe Moretz performs very well and acts convincingly, I also think that the body horror used within this scene was impressive as when they tip the blood over her whilst she’s on stage its looks very real and shocked me.

Even though this film is different to horror films which we have been analysing in class I could still tick a majority of features on the horror genre checklist, such as; body horror, collision cutting of quiet and happy to loud and crazy, both featured in the prom scene, a final girl which is Carrie herself, female victim- one of the girls who gets killed at prom and quick montage during the manic prom scene.

Some of the aspects from ‘Carrie’ (2013) that I would like to include in my own trailer are, expressionist angles as they make a scene a lot more interesting and can represent power, I would also like to include close-ups and I think they are a very good way to convey emotion. I would also like to include a creepy location, similar to Carrie’s house because it is a good scare technique.

However some aspects of the film that I would avoid including within my trailer would be slow pacing as I think during this film it was slow right up until the ending when the horror began to happen. So when I make my own trailer I want it to be filled with excitement all the way through to keep the audience interested.

Personally I didn’t enjoy this film as much as I thought  would as I think it was over-rated, but for me the best aspect was seeing Carrie develop as a character and seeing her transitioning from a female victim who gets revenge on her bullies and turns into a psycho killer which in a way made me sympathise with her. I also think it would be interesting to recreate an antagonist what the audience feels sorry for in my own trailer perhaps.