(Originally published on Letterboxd on Jan 18, 2014) - Carrie, as a horror film, has officially been made four times. One of those four is technically considered a sequel, but other than the main character being named Rachel and not Carrie, everything else is pretty much identical, so to call it anything other than a remake would be a bold-faced lie. It's not hard to see why Hollywood would go to the Carrie well so often, either; it's got a great premise: An unpopular teenage girl is tormented by her classmates, and upon learning she has telekinetic superpowers, uses them to seek revenge. And in Brian De Palma's original 1976 version, it was magnificent!
In every other version since… not so much.
