Carrie (1976) poster
1976 · horror

Carrie

Directed by Brian De Palma1h 38m1976
ElsewhereIMDb7.4227kRT94%Metacritic86TMDB7.34k
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • bleak
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Our read · Carrie (1976) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want slow-burn teen horror where cruelty and piety combust into catastrophe.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 25attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorecringe humiliationchild perilsexual violence

Skip it tonightSkip if humiliation, religious abuse, or explosive horror will ruin your evening.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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