She also kills for being humiliated, while the laughing crowd is a result of her inner fear in the original film. In an alternate ending, we see Sue giving birth to the baby mentioned by Carrie. But instead of a baby, a blood-covered arm comes out (Carrie's?). Sue wakes up screaming revealing that the arm was her mother's. Chris's Girl Posse was called the 'Mortimer Snerds' in the book. Norma refers to them as 'The Ultras' here. Which is why the moment of her degradation hits so hard, even though we saw it coming, even though the audience in 1976 walked past film posters depicting Sissy Spacek covered in blood. To turn her into the 1970s ideal of the All-American prom queen and then force the audience to wait through an excruciating scene in which her prettiness and her transformation are commented on by everyone, knowing that disaster is coming, is why the film remains such a classic. Carrie killed 73 people at the night of the Prom. The school was rebuilt elsewhere in Chamberlain and the ruins of the former school are still there. Additionally that part of the town of Chamberlain is deserted. Finally the incident also became in time some kind of "Urban Legend" in the town. Carrie's father Ralph, had another daughter named Rachel Lang, who was also a carrier of telekinesis.

After cradling her mother to death, Carrie realizes what she has done and makes stones begin to rain from the sky. Sue appears shortly afterwards, but is held in the grasp of Carrie. After scanning Sue's brain, she realizes that she had nothing to do with the prank. She tells Sue (who didn't know) that she is pregnant with a girl before throwing her out to safety. The younger Carrie was played by Jodelle Ferland who causes a rain of fiery stones to fall out of the sky like in the novel. This version of the character in general was more similar to the novel than Sissy Spacek's portrayal. Tina Blake. While she is one of Chris's friends in the book, she isn't as big a bully and she isn't in on the prank, which she is in the film. Additionally, she becomes a bit of a ditz, while she didn't have much of a personality in the book.Miss Desjardin: I want you all to know what you did on Friday was a really nasty thing. Did you stop to think that Carrie White might have feelings? Do any of you ever stop to think?! Sue? Helen? Tina? Oh, you think she's ugly, don't you? Well, you're ugly. I saw just how ugly all of you are Friday morning! Carrie in this version is more similar to the book, but in modern terms. At the beginning of the film, Carrie has her first period in the showers and is harassed by Chris and her gang. Chris also films Carrie with her phone while the other girls throw tampons and sanitary napkins at Carrie. Ms. Desjardin tries to calm Carrie down and a light fixture breaks by itself.

Fanservice: The shower scene has some of the Ultras still in the middle of getting dressed, so Chris and Helen are still in their bras. Tina is just in a towel too. Prior to Carrie freaking out, we see her (surprisingly) toned abdomen and one of her legs. The incidents of the rain of stones in both the past, when Carrie was a child, and in the present, when she destroys her house. Both scenes were cut. In preparation for her role, Sissy Spacek isolated herself from the rest of the ensemble, decorated her dressing room with heavy religious iconography and studied Gustave Doré's illustrated Bible. She studied "the body language of people being stoned for their sins", starting or ending every scene in one of those positions. This has the two-fold effect of highlighting Carrie’s growing sexual awareness and confidence while also making her appear more and more vulnerable as the night progresses toward its disastrous ending. She boldly displayed her handiwork and adult body to her mother, but it’s notable how she hoiked the dress up and covered herself in a shawl once she left home. Her dirty-pillows display to her mother was an act of bravado, but when she gets around her contemporaries, she does her best to withdraw and not make such a show of herself.Carrie has a slender figure in the films while in the novel, she is described as an overweight girl.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Inverted with Helen. She starts off seemingly as another one of the bullies, but she soon warms to Carrie and tries to stop the blood being poured.Sue kind of as well. The tampon throwing from the book is lessened so that the popular girls just surround Carrie and chant "period!" over again, meaning all Sue did was chant. Additionally she revives Carrie with CPR and helps her flee town. Orphaned Series: Sort of. The film is a full adaptation of the book that had mild plans to continue as a TV series where Carrie survives and runs off. The ending is open enough to allow for a continuation, but still somewhat resolved. Billy's friends were a lot less evil in the book. They didn't know about the prank and one of them was horrified when he learned what happened. In the film version, they're fully on board with the prank and help rig the voting. Kenny also taunts Carrie after the blood is poured, shouting "pig" repeatedly at her. One of Billy's posse when he tries to claim he wasn't involved, only to immediately see video evidence of helping to kill the pig. In fact, he created over 30 of the same thirties-influenced bias-cut dress: “ We had a clean dress, a just-bloodied dress, we had a wet and bloody dress, we had pre-explosion dress, a dress for when Carrie leaves the prom, a post-explosion dress, and a dress for her arrival home,” he said. “We made five of each.”

She is also one of the few Stephen King protagonists to die. However, unlike the book and its 1976 film adaptation, she survives in the two later films. Ray of Hope" Ending: This is the only version where Carrie survives, with Sue helping her escape to Florida. While we don't find out what happened (due to the planned mini-series being canceled), if Carrie was able to successfully hide her identity, she might have been able to have a relatively happy life after.Cliffhanger Copout: Miss Desjardin is shown hanging from the vent for dear life, the chair underneath her having fallen over. Later she is being interviewed by the detective, with no explanation of how she escaped. Comfort Food: The investigators offer donuts to the people they're interrogating. Sue doesn't touch them, Norma dives in casually, and Miss Desjardin tears apart a donut with her fingers with a stressed expression. Survivor's Guilt: Miss Desjardin has this after the night of the prom. Averted with the other survivors, especially Norma. Carrie was raised isolated from society by her single mother after her father Ralph White left them for another woman. Horror cinema flourished in the 1970s, and Brian De Palma‘s Carrie was one of the genre’s most successful outputs. Adapted from Stephen King’s 1974 novel of the same name, Carrie further boasted Sissy Spacek’s career following her acclaimed role in Terrence Mailk’s 1973 crime drama Badlands. It’s hard to imagine anyone else playing the troubled, telekinesis-possessed teenager Carrie White; Spacek fully embodies the role with horrifying verve.