Sissy Spacek unforgettably evolves from ugly duckling to swan to something else entirely in the groundbreaking film of Stephen King’s novel

CARRIE Directed by BRIAN DE PALMA Screenplay by LAWRENCE D. COHEN At its simplest level, Carrie is a rendering of that familiar fairy tale of the adolescent misfit—misunderstood and cruelly...

EW's Owen Gleiberman on why 'Carrie' was the movie that made him want to become a film critic.

Brian De Palma's "Carrie" is an absolutely spellbinding horror movie, with a shock at the end that's the best thing along those lines since the shark leaped

Half Phantom of the Paradise, half Obsession, Carrie is hysterical in every sense of the word.

A fine shocker with a rare emotional twist of tension.

R • 1 hour 38 min • 1976

No author has had his work converted to the big screen with more frequency—and more scattershot results—than the horror maestro. And with ‘It Chapter Two’ imminent, what better time to take stock of the very best of the 80-plus King movies?

Read the Empire Movie review of Carrie. The reason Carrie is still held in such high regard as a horror classic is very simple: it's all in...

Adolescence is key to everything in this seminal Stephen King adaptation from 1974, starring Sissy Spacek in the career-defining title role.

The New York Daily News gave "Carrie" three stars in 1967.

Viewed in a modern context, ‘Carrie’ is a more troubling film than it might have seemed to audiences in 1976, from the opening sequence of naked teenage girls g