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By Sandra Olmsted<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Say Sissy Spacek and the image of her in Brian De Palma\u2019s Carrie<\/em> will probably come to mind, and that incredible performance is as hard an act to follow as the De Palma\u2019s classic horror masterpiece. In fact, tackling a remake of an iconic film like De Palma\u2019s horror masterpiece seems an odd choice for director Kimberly Peirce, whose acclaimed first feature, Boys Don\u2019t Cry,<\/em> was followed by only one other feature until now.<\/p>\n

With De Palma and Spacek\u2019s blessings, Peirce makes Steven King\u2019s story of Carrie White her own by emphasizing the realism of a teen outcast bullied by her peers. Without de-emphasizing the supernatural elements of the story, Peirce focuses on Carrie as an outcast, which isn\u2019t a surprise since her Boys Don\u2019t Cry<\/em> reveals the the true story of Brandon Teena, the gay girl who dresses and lives as a boy until her secret is discovered.<\/p>\n

Peirce\u2019s version opens with the scene of Carrie\u2019s birth, which is in King\u2019s book but in not De Palma\u2019s film. This scene reveals the psyche of Carrie\u2019s damaged mother, Margaret White (Julianne Moore), and puts their creepy, love\/hate relationship at the center of the movie. Peirce also skips the jump-out-and-get-ya scares to focus on the response of Carrie (Chloe Grace Moretz) to growing up an outcast, to dealing with the modern world at school and a nearly-medieval, circumscribed, religious fanaticism at home, and to understanding and using a burgeoning telekinetic power.<\/p>\n

By bends the original story towards character-driven drama, Peirce makes the relationship between Carrie and Margaret vacillate between tenderness and torture as the insane, increasingly hysterical Margaret tries to protect Carrie from growing up. Carrie parries for power, options, and understanding first with an incredible command of scripture and later with her improving control of her telekinetic powers. Moore\u2019s subtle portrayal of Margaret as a mumbling, self-mutilating frump adds to the psychological thrills in different ways than Piper Laurie\u2019s did in the original, but Moretz can\u2019t outdo or improve upon Spacek\u2019s performance as a lost little girl push to become a vengeful teen in De Palma\u2019s Carrie.<\/p>\n

Without preaching about the evils of internet bullying, Peirce also adds the modern component of a vicious classmate posting a humiliating video of Carrie freaking out when she has her first period in the locker room. This humiliation on grand scale sends Carrie over the edge even though Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde), the good girl, tries to help Carrie by pursuing her hunky boyfriend, Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to the prom.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the prom is where the secret plan of Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday) and Billy Nolan (Alex Russell) to further humiliate Carrie will go horribly wrong. While the plotline of the film is virtually unchanged from De Palma\u2019s, some of the characters get interesting updates. This includes Chris being the spoiled daddy\u2019s girl of a slick, bullying lawyer (Hart Bochner), the gym teacher (Judy Greer) being warm and concerned towards Carrie, and Margaret being a self cutter. Otherwise, the high school characters function as little more than a faceless mob following the most sensational humiliation for fun.<\/p>\n

While Peirce\u2019s remake takes itself too serious at times, it also does better at updating previous films than most remakes because it avoids being silly or boring. Since blood and bleeding play a huge part in this film\u2019s story, production designer Carol Spier and art director Nigel Churcher exaggerate blood red in the film\u2019s look, and Lee Percy\u2019s editing gives it a slick pace. Although Marco Beltrami\u2019s score is opulent, it is overused and mismatched to director of photographer Steve Yedlin\u2019s dark, mundane look for the film.<\/p>\n

Like most slasher and horror films today, Peirce\u2019s Carrie<\/em> relies too heavily on special and digital effects to wrap up the story and portray emotional events. Because both Peirce and De Palma\u2019s version share a screenwriter, Lawrence D. Cohen, who works with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa for the Peirce version, the dialogue being almost exactly like in both isn\u2019t a surprise. Peirce\u2019s version also lacks De Palma\u2019s dark sense of humor, but her realism should connect better with the intended teen audience. However, where De Palma\u2019s Carri<\/em>e left the audience thinking about the deep meanings, Peirce\u2019s cautionary tale about bullying will probably get lost in the many similar messages.<\/p>\n

Kimberly Peirce\u2019s Carrie<\/em>, a Sony Pictures Entertainment release of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, runs 99 minutes and is rated R for bloody violence, disturbing images, language and some sexual content. Carrie is in theaters now, and just in time for an early Halloween thrill.\u00a0 More of Olmsted\u2019s reviews are available at <www.thecinematicskiny.com>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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