{"id":749,"date":"2013-12-23T19:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-12-23T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T08:00:40","slug":"review-carrie-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/review-carrie-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Carrie (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_750\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-750\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/carrie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-750\" alt=\"carrie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/carrie-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is it just me or does Sissy Spacek look way weird anyways?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A classic film from Brian De Palma from the book by Stephen King (before his descent into born-again zanyness).<\/p>\n<p>Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek) is a strange girl who knows pretty much nothing about life due to her mother who is a religious maniac. She has been sheltered from the facts of life and pretty much told that everything to do with sex and boys is evil.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this Carrie suffers all sorts of horrible torments culminating in a dreadful prank at the Senior Prom, that night of nights. What no one has realizes is that Carrie has some pretty nasty magic powers and sorts them all out..<\/p>\n<p>This film was very much a ground breaker for horror, perhaps its most important contribution was the introduction of &#8220;the last scream&#8221; involving Amy Irving in the films final moments &#8211; no its not all over&#8230;De Palma pioneered this aspect of horror films (using it again in films like <em>Dressed to Kill)<\/em> and it has been used in pretty much every horror film since.<\/p>\n<p>I hear there is a remake due out this year&#8230;we&#8217;ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classic film from Brian De Palma from the book by Stephen King (before his descent into born-again zanyness). Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek) is a strange girl who knows pretty much nothing about life due to her mother who is a religious maniac. She has been sheltered from the facts of life and pretty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/12\/23\/review-carrie-1976\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Carrie (1976)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}