There alot of Stephan King books out there that continue to get adaptation after adaption with IT being a chief example of that. However there is one of his books that has more adaptations then IT as that the book only really has two adaptations where as the film that i'm about to review today marks the third technically fourth adaptation of a book that really is truly creepy and so then join me as I review the film that really didn't need to be made in the slightest with the film in question being called simply just "Carrie" enjoy.
The plot of this film is teenage outcast Carrie White discovers that she has telekinetic powers and gets invited to a prom that both she and her hometown will remember forever. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in al honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but that's more due to the fact that the plot of the book is really good and I will admit that regardless of the quality of the adaptation this plot will always be really good and I will admit that this films plot was very entertaining for the most part in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Kick-A*s star Chloë Grace Moretz as Carrie White , Julianne Moore as Margaret White and Judy Greer as Miss Desjardin. Also starring in this film is Gabriella Wilde as Sue Snell , Portia Doubleday as Chris Hargensen , Alex Russell as Billy Nolan , Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort as Tommy Ross , Barry Shabaka Henley as Principal Henry Morton , Zoë Belkin as Tina Blake , Karissa Strain as Nicki Watson , Katie Strain as Lizzy Watson , Samantha Weinstein as Heather Mason , Demetrius Joyette as George Dawson , Mouna Traoré as Erika Langton and Hart Bochner as John Hargensen.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films cast turning in some really good performances however what lets thew acting down is the fact that you don;t just by Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie White not because she's a bad actress because she's not but it's more due tot he fact that she's horribly miscast as the character and as such you don't just see the character all you do is see the actor and that is something that really does take you out of the film.
Doing the CGI for this film is Acme F/X and the legends and the really greats that are currently over at Mr. X. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad with his films CGI being laughably bad at best which really shouldn't have been the case at all as alot of the stuff that they use CGI for should have been very easy to make look good even for a horror film released in 2013 and yet they somehow managed to turn in a film with really bad looking CGI effects.
This films just gets so much basic stuff wrong even from the first shot of the movie as they get rid of the opening of the 1976 original movie which gave you a false of security and instead replaced it with a typical horror opening. On top of that they cat the wrong person as Carrie White not because Chloe Grace Moretz is a bad actress because she really isn't as she does turn in a good performance in this film but it's because he's far to good looking which goes against everything that Carrie White is as she is meant to be just an average looking girl who is just looking to get by day to day and yet with Chloe Grace Moretz that's gone out the window because all you have to do is take one look at her and you'll know that she belongs more with the popular kids and not as this social outcast character who has no friends to speak off.
There are things that are done better in the original film like the alot of the films death scenes for example. However at the same time this film does some things that are actually good like for example by having Chris an Billy play the video that Chris took of her bullying Carrie and having that play just after she drops the bucket of pigs blood on her that was a good idea as it really does hit home that no matter where Carrie goes in her life be it to school or at home she will always be seen as an outcast and that was something that I really did like and on top of that it also made sense to update that bit of the scene as well as that character in that time period would do something like that as she is a dreadful bully.
While they did do a decent job of updating some aspects the film like by having Chris film to bullying that Carrie goes through. The film could have done a tad but more like by having Carrie find out about the video while she using the internet at school but I will admit that is a very minor issue but what isn't is the fact that the film offers us no scares where as the original film had plenty of scares you could even make the case that the opening of the original film is pretty scary given what we know happens to Carrie later on in the film this is something that should have had alot more effort put into it as the film does have a spooky premise and yet the film doesn't take full advantage of that with the film instead feeling like something that would air on The CW instead of an actually creepy movie that is worthy of the Carrie name.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty minuets and fifty six seconds. Which is a tad bit on the long side for this film to have as the film really doesn't have alot of story to cover that large amount of running time with the film having alot of stuff int that just feels like teen drama and padding as it's stuff that really doesn't effect the overall plot of the film where as if you compare that to the original film almost every single scene in that film is needed as it ether advances the plot or the characters where as in this film it just really felt like that they were really rushing alot to hit all of the plot points that we all know and really love without truly understanding why we liked them in the first place but I will admit that his film does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a horror film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in his very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty fairly bad. As alot of it just wasn't built up all that well especially when compared to either the book or the original film but I will admit that the signature prom scene was done really well altho the overuse of CGI in that scene did make it seem more laughable then it did out right scare when that shouldn't have been the case but when it got it right it really did get it right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while this remake is alot more enjoyable then what I thought that it would be it's not really as good as it really could or really eve should have been for that matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about,all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review ad as such that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Noe ten as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Carrie fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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