I mean, all the kids think I'm funny, and I don't wanna be. I wanna be normal, I wanna start to try me, a whole person, before it's too late for me
No 86 - Carrie Director - Brian De Palma I came into this expecting a horror. A horror film about a girl with telekinetic powers who goes insane and kills everyone. It is one of the few Stephen King novels I haven't read, and so I went into this film blind. So - let me make one thing clear at the beginning. This is a horror film, in some senses of the word. But it isn't your conventional modern day horror. This is not a film about a monster, or a slasher - and whilst Carrie is high school girl driven to mass destruction, it isn't about an evil teenager with super powers killing everyone . What makes this film really interesting, as a horror, is that the actual horror elements come from the cruelty of Carrie's class mates and the insanity of her mother. This is a behavioral horror. Not a conventional one. The film follows Carrie, a quiet, naive girl who is bullied dreadfully and who has telekinetic powers. Think Matilda ... only with no Mrs Honey influence and a massive...