Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Stephen King's deadly prom queen.

The remake of “Carrie” is being released like a horror film, which is unfortunate, because the movie is very good…

Somehow, I thought this one had promise: a remake of Carrie, the 1976 Brian De Palma film of Stephen King's first novel. Two enticing stars, Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore, in the roles created by Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie: the telekinetic teen and her crazy evangelist mom.

Stephen King's bloody teen masterpiece has been updated – but with few 21st-century additions and fewer still original touches, writes Peter Bradshaw

Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore star in Kimberly Peirce's remake of the 1976 horror classic, based on the novel by Stephen King.

Not much has changed since the 1970s. Teenage girls can still be pure evil. And now they come with iPhones. So that ‘plug it up’ tampon scene – when Carrie gets

Where Brian DePalma's 1976 version of Stephen King's novel was a fever dream about femininity, masochism and cruelty, this remake looks through a wider lens, and strikes more universal notes of sympathy. It plays like a very dark, perverse version of a superhero origin story: what would happen if Superman were raised by an insane woman?

Billed as a thriller-horror, Carrie is devoid of scares, compounded by mediocre special effects