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The Evolution of Horror

MIND & BODY Pt 6: Carrie (1976)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

"They're all gonna laugh at you!"
This week Mike is joined by Michael Blyth to discuss his favourite film of all time, Brian DePalma and Stephen King's CARRIE, in spoilerific detail.

Music by Jack Whitney.

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0:00.0

The 1976 a young bullied high school girl gets to finally escape the clutches of her religious

0:29.2

abusive home life for one perfect night. She's being taken to the prom by one of the cutest boys in school.

0:38.0

She and her date spend the night chatting, laughing, dancing, doing all the things you're supposed to do for this teenage right of

0:45.8

passage.

0:46.8

Then, as the icing on the cake, they're voted prom queen and king.

0:51.6

Everything seems almost too good to be true.

0:55.0

But this perfect high school dream is about to become a nightmare.

1:06.0

Following a cruel and brutal practical joke,

1:09.0

this high school girl loses control of her mind and body leaving nothing but blood, pain, suffering and death in her wake. Wake. the mind and body as we discuss Stephen King and Brian DePalmers, Carrie.

1:35.8

I can see your dirty pillows. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your

1:47.7

host. If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome in this podcast

1:51.7

we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror

1:54.8

genre by looking at particular sub-jomras one series at a time.

1:59.2

We are currently in the middle of our journey through the mind and body in horror cinema and this is

2:04.0

Part 6 in which as that intro suggested we are only discussing one film and

2:09.3

one film only one of the all-time greats an absolute classic Brian DePalma's

2:15.2

Carrie from 1976. We will be talking about this film in spoiler-ific detail. I mean

2:21.8

it's impossible to discuss Carrie without

2:24.3

discussing that ending. So if you haven't seen Carrie,

2:27.7

what are you doing? Go and give it a watch and then come back and listen to our

2:32.1

discussion.

2:33.0

Quick announcement before we get started just to say that this Sunday night,

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