Stephen King's "Carrie" is brought back to life in a new movie remake starring the Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore.
The remake of the film has critics split on RottonTomatoes.com, giving the new "Carrie" a 51 percent fresh rating. It's always difficult to top cult classics because at the time of the original film it was truly something viewers have never experienced before.
Still, some remakes are worth seeing and "Carrie" is definitely one of them. Check out what the reviews have to say about the movie below.
IGN rates the "Carrie" remake a 6 out of 10:
"There's nothing wrong with Carrie, per se, but it also never really comes alive. It feels somewhat dispassionate, despite having such a strong core story from King, which mixes a real life problem with a horror movie scenario. It just feels too reverential to what's come before and thus Peirce never puts her own stamp on the material."
The Washington Post gives the movie with three stars:
"Is "Carrie" a massive improvement over the original? No. De Palma's film is a classic, and its theme of the bullied becoming the bully still resonates. But the new film, which includes some of the same lines from the original plus an even bigger bloodbath at the end, works for a new audience. It's as affecting as drama as it is effective as horror. It wrenches, even as it unnerves."
The New York Times says it's not the movie you think it will be:
"As in the first film, blood runs through "Carrie," first as a symbolically suggestive trickle - initially as an unholy brew of menstruation and the blood of Christ - and then in great, gushing waves as the body count mounts. Ms. Peirce plays up the story's religious themes and Carrie's burgeoning power as she discovers her telekinetic gifts, even as the dread of the female body that deepens Mr. De Palma's version somehow goes missing.
"This "Carrie" has its share of terrors, certainly, partly because of the seeming timelessness of its deeper, more resonant themes. Although now, when Carrie - one of the more memorable screen victims of bullying - locks the doors of the school gym and does her bloody worst, it's a good guess that it won't be the movie that you will be thinking about, but recent headlines."
Still unsure if you want to see "Carrie?" Check out the trailer below.
