There’s a troubling, “here’s all the stuff from Carrie with modern cinematography!” thing going on in this trailer. Not much of a suggestion that anything particularly different in this rather limited, straightforward story is going to happen, except that it will happen with more CGI and stuff. That said, it looks like a fun supernatural thriller with cool things happening in them, so I’m not going to sit and shit all over it all night.
As a child of the 90s, my telekinetic-little-girl frame of reference here is less original-Carrie and more Danny DeVito’s Matilda. It’s essentially the same story, except the girl ends up doing lovely shit and promoting reading instead of murdering a bunch of people and blowing things up. You know, superficial differences.
Oh, and trailer editors: the skipping record thing in trailers is already way played out for this year alone. Kill it.
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I like the stuff with her floating things in her room. Feels like a character development moment rather than an FX wank.
Meh. Looks like the same movie, plus Sissy Spacek was much more believable as a sheltered introvert, just based on appearance alone.
One of the other movie sites I check out criticized the trailer for being too spoilery, to which I can say as a child of the 80’s that the film spoiled itself wayyyyyyyyyy before that. Growing up, before I saw the original, I thought the movie was ALL about shit going wrong at the prom. It was on the VHS box, the pictures were in the books about horror movies I’d read as a kid, and it was the only thing anyone talked about. As far as I was concerned, that WAS the movie, so I was bored to tears when I finally first saw it when I was 13 or so. You can’t blame the trailer of a re-make for giving things away when you already have nearly three and a half decades of home video box art to thank for that.
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