Carrie White Sissy Spacek

The 1976 horror film Carrie was arguably the start of the now booming horror movie franchise, with Sissy Spacek in the spotlight. In the film Spacek attempts to portray Carrie White, a shy, soft-spoken, loner type with new found telekinetic abilities. Carrie White aims to go through High School unnoticed, but a series of unfortunate events leave her the victim of many cruel jokes. With a religious fanatic for a mother, and the new found attention of some mean girls, and a potential love interest, Carrie tries to keep it all together until inevitably she loses it at her Prom and kills everyone while covered in Pig’s blood. The film adaptation of Stephen King’s original book would have been so much better with a different leading lady. Sissy Spacek, an award winning actress for many films (including Carrie), in my opinion was not suited for the role. I did not find her interpretation of the iconic character to be up to par with the other actors and actresses in the movie. There was no real maturation of Carrie. Though
The actresses mechanic movements and droning voice minimized the film’s overall stellar plot. She was not expressive in her movements. When trying to come across as angry, scared, or even happy her stoic body language gave no indication as to how she was feeling. Scenes such as the one where she kills her mother and when she kills everyone at prom could have been considerably better with more emotion. Even dialogue between Carrie white and her mother, Margaret White, may have contributed to the stories believability if Sissy Spacek showed any acting abilities. She would stand there and say line after line as if she could do nothing but walk forward and backward. Spacek’s performance could have been immensely better if she had spoken with more emotion. Her acting was so horrific (and not in the right way) I had to pause the film several times while