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WARNING: THERE WILL BE BLOOD IN THIS ONE, FOLKS.

 

Hey, the remake is out today, so why the heck not? You don't feel like it? Well, tough noodles, that's what's happening. Get your ass to the prayer closet, you heathen.

 

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I'm with ya, sista. Testify.

 

- The first adaptation of a Stephen King story, which was itself King's first published novel. King based the story off two girls he used to teach, both quiet social outcasts with hyper-religious families. They both died in their 20's.

 

- Speaking of which, every actor playing a teenager was in their 20's.

 

- Brian De Palma cast the film in a joint audition with George Lucas, who was casting Star Wars.

 

- Apparently, many of the actors didn't know the movie was going to be so horrific; Nancy Allen and John Travolta thought their bully characters were comic relief and didn't realize how sadistic they were until the final cut, and Piper Laurie's character, Margaret the crazed mother, was so ridiculous that she thought this was a spoof.

 

- Brian De Palma told Sissy Spacek he wanted Carrie to look and act like she got hit by a truck during her first...you-know-what in the opening scene. She asked her husband, who was the art director on the film and actually was hit by a truck at a young age, what that felt like. She used his description to figure out how she would do.

 

- The four-note violin screeches from Psycho are used whenever Carrie uses her powers, and the name of the high school, Bates High, is an obvious reference to Norman Bates.

 

- John Travolta drives a 1967 Chevelle SS 396 hardtop in this movie, and a 1964 Chevelle Malibu convertible in Pulp Fiction.

 

- The pig's blood in the movie was corn syrup and red food dye.

 

- Sissy Spacek was extremely gung-ho about the whole thing. She was willing to use blood for the prom scene, she isolated herself from her peers in the name of authenticity, she was the first actress comfortable doing the nude scenes, and

she insisted that it'd be her hand that comes out of the ground in the final jump scare, not a double's.

 

 

And that's how you get nominated for an Oscar...

 

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LIKE A BOSS.

 

Actually, could I just take this moment to put on my critic pants and say that I absolutely love her acting during the prom scene? Most other movies would have just had her do the big dramatic thing where she throws up her hands like Magneto and and she'd be screaming or something. Not here, though. She's stone faced the whole time, really pissed off looking but still eerily quiet and calm in her movements. She just looks at stuff and bad things happen. Love it, with all my heart.

 

Anyway...

 

- Amy Irving's performance as a terrified and utterly distraught Sue Snell in the final scene was apparently so hard to watch on set that the actress playing the character's mother (who happened to be Irving's real life mother) called her by her real name. She was genuinely scared for her daughter's well being. The music covers up the mistake, though.

 

- Steven Spielberg was invited to the set and promptly hit on every female in the vicinity. Amy Irving took him up on his offer, and they actually were married for a few years some time later.

 

- Stephen King, who was never really fond of his debut novel, was quite impressed by the movie and declared it a vast improvement over the original text.

 

- Sissy Spacek was actually named homecoming queen in real life. Thankfully, no one was murdered through the use of telekinesis.

 

Well, there you go the best Stephen King horror movie ever. Well, one of the best, anyway. Tune in tomorrow, when I cover the most popular Stephen King adaptation ever, and apparently the most anticipated movie that I have not yet done (or so I've been told by some people who should probably be caring about more important things.

 

Yes, that's right.

 

We're doing The Langoliers.

 

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EDIT: Jokuc reminded me of another awesome fact in the comments. Yes, Spakec totally wore the same bloody dress for three nights to keep the consistency in check. Like I said, LIKE A BOSS.

 

Anyway, actually lied. I'm not doing Langoliers.

 

I'm doing The Tommyknockers.

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Oh yes the langoliers is so awesome xD ...and weirdass

...I dont like the ending...

 

 

Anyways

 

yay carrie! I knew this one was coming tongue.png

I think I read something in my book about horror films about that sissy had to wear "bloody" clothes for like ridiculous amounts of hours and then she had to wear the clothes even longer cause they had to do a scene all over again many times... or was that another movie...

 

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she had the clothes for three nights :P

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I will be curious to hear your take on The Langoliers. This one was an adaptation which could definitely have benefited from more use of 'The Theater Of The Mind', as opposed to the blindingly terrible CGI.

You may have surmised a slight bias on my part...

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