Carrie 2013

            I looked forward in watching Carrie the time I learned it will be having its remake this year. It felt excited because I always knew that the movie is really scary since I was able to watch the previous and original adaptation when I was younger. I could still remember how much I got scared when I watched the movie during the 90s. And so the other day, I watched it on the big screen.

            Originally based on the 1974 novel by Stephen king, this time, Carrie 2013 took us to a modern setting of the story. Starring Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie White, played the girl in her senior year in high school that possesses telekinetic powers and has a very religious mother (Julianne Moore). She is being bullied in school by some popular girls, Chris (Portia Doubleday) and Sue (Gabriella Wilde). Realizing her fault and to make it up to Carrie, Sue asked her boyfriend, Tommy (Ansel Elgort) to take Carrie to the prom. Highlight of the film was when Tommy attended the prom with Carrie and had a good time. But Chris, her boyfriend and her other friends, made sure to ruin the night for Carrie by pouring a pail of pig’s blood on Carrie and Tommy when they were crowned as the Prom King and Queen and showed a video of Carrie freaking out. She was humiliated and all the people in the event laughed at her. With all the anger she was feeling, Carrie avenged to everyone using her telekinetic powers in killing most of the people there including Chris. Later on the film, she also killed her mother and Carrie died through the falling rocks and stones that crushed their house.

            I always believed that Carrie has been a part of the movie history as one of the scariest film ever but this recent remake of the movie made me feel disappointed. There was no doubt that Julianne Moore delivered well, but the other artists, I am not sure if they were good enough, maybe they do. The storytelling was a little dragging. I don’t know if I am just already mature for this super power kind of movie, but I almost didn’t feel any goose bump. My friends and I went to watch Carrie anticipating for a real horror flick but it turned out we just wasted our money for it didn’t reach our expectation from the movie. I did not feel terrified the way I felt during the first two movie adaptation of the novel. 

            Oh well. Maybe next time, we must read reviews first before finally catching this kind of movie on cinema. Still, Carrie is Carrie.