After the first few images leaked yesterday, today we have the teaser trailer for the remake of Stephen King’s Carrie, directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) and starring Chloë Moretz. GRR, UMLAUTS!
A re-imagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
But what’s Chloë Moretz doing at a senior prom, she’s only 15! How much of an outcast could she really be if seniors are taking her to their prom? I didn’t go to a prom when I was 15, you didn’t see me covering people with pig’s blood. Of course, my only real power back then was magically getting nacho cheese stains on my shirt every break, so perhaps it’s an unfair comparison.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the original Carrie. I assume it’s some sort of metaphor for a girl learning that as she matures, a terrible power grows inside her? Hence all the blood? Anyway, I got through this entire post without saying anything pervy about Chloe Moretz. Aren’t you proud of me?
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I don’t trust Kimberly Peirce to do this remake correctly, because anyone whose name doesn’t follow the “i before e, except after c” rule cannot possibly be a good director.
Also anyone named Michael Bay or “McG” or Brett Ratner.
McLovin did not grab enough sponges.
You’ve changed, man.
The biggest question about the remake is: what about the locker room and shower scene?! That’s a classic moment of world cinema!! You can’t change that.
Oh hai, Chris Hansen…what brings you here?
That shower scene is so brutal. Much worse than anything you see in a prison movie. It’s hard to think of teenage girls as sweet little princesses ever again after seeing that.
This will be a real change for Moretz, who has always played precocious and unnaturally mature characters. “Carrie” is about as naive and innocent and clueless as a movie character gets, and her story arc is about how that makes her a victim (with a neat little final act where she gets revenge on everyone).
Spoilers, Dude!
“Anyway, I got through this entire post without saying anything pervy about Chloe Moretz. Aren’t you proud of me?”
Yes, I come to filmdrunk for the legitimate analysis of performances by teenage girls in horror remakes. Is this what happens when you let Burnsy write for filmdrunk? FUCKING BURNSY
Hey now. FUCKING BURNSY is the job of Mrs. Burnsy.
(vince)
Um, doesn’t the original movie start with Carrie getting her period?
So, yes, the message is to be afraid of menstruating women.
And powerful psychics.
Yeah that’s when the crazy really kicks in.
Truer words have never been written.
So this is just a female version of Looper? No way she’s gonna live up to the level that kid set!
Chloe Moderate IS… the Stainmaker.
Oh fuck you autospell.
Uh oh, someone tell R. Kelly that he has a kidney infection.
In the updated version, Kody Maxson bullies Carrie online, but tricks her into going to prom with him!
You know… I ain’t no mathmagician but if you get 13-year-old “vampire” Chloë Moretz to make out with 15-year-old “blood-soaked” Chloë Grace Moretz then you basically get the same chick who’s legally, like, 28, right?
…Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go let some people know that I’ve just moved into the neighborhood…
your logic is flawlwss
Holy crap, you seriously haven’t seen “Carrie”?
Welcome to film blogging.
Piper Laurie knocked it out of the park in that movie. Moore better bring her A game.
Other than making some quick cash, there is no point to the remake. The original is definitive and can’t be improved.
I don’t know about the novel being “Acclaimed”. It was basically a period piece set amongst anst-ridden teenagers with the emotional flow between a closeted-homosexual pig killer and a naive free-menstruating woman-child. The breakdown of the interior walls and ensuing outburst of raw red rage stains every aspect of the story.
I’m going to have my junk cryogenically frozen until she turns 18. That way I won’t be creepy.
When I’m walkin’ I strut my stuff, man I’m so strung out
I’m high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out
Let me go on like I blister in the sun,
Let me go on big hands I know you’re the one
I’m sure I’ll give this a chance, but everything screams Chloe is too pretty to be Carrie. Sissy Spacek look(ed)s like a homely corpse.
I took a 14 yr old to the prom. It was prison prom but it still counts.
Moore can’t hack that role.