...AND ALSO OUTDOOR SCREENING HAPPENING OCT 1ST AT ARKEDON IN ST. LOUIS
A sampling of today's Instagram posts above and below about Brian De Palma's Carrie, most of them thanking Fathom Events for bringing De Palma's classic to the big screen for its 45th anniversary. Meanwhile, Arkadin Cinema & Bar in the Bevo neighborhood of St. Louis plans an outdoor screening of Carrie on Friday, October 1st:
At once a searing supernatural shocker and a sensitive portrait of high-school loneliness, Brian De Palma’s Carrie shows that for a film to be truly terrifying, it helps if we actually care about its characters. And it’s impossible not to connect emotionally to burgeoning telekinetic Carrie White (a brilliantly affecting Sissy Spacek), a shy, repressed girl bullied by her classmates at school and abused by her religious-fanatic mother (Piper Laurie) at home. Faithfully adapted from Stephen King’s novel, the film focuses less on Carrie’s emerging supernatural powers than on her painfully awkward desire to fit in. Less visually extravagant than many De Palma films, Carrie is still stylish without being obtrusive. When the film finally explodes in climactic violence, the effect is both cathartic and horrifying, a teenage tragedy worthy of Greek myth.
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Updated: Monday, September 27, 2021 8:23 AM CDT
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Updated: Monday, September 27, 2021 8:23 AM CDT
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