But when the crowd began to sing the school song as tradition, this was the cue for an unseen Chris to pull a rope cord that caused the two buckets above to tip over and drench Carrie and Tommy with the rotting pig's blood while they sat on the thrones for the King and Queen. While on stage, Chris drenches Carrie in pig's blood. The gown was a thick fabric of red crushed velvet with a princess waistline, Juliet sleeves and allowed her cleavage to slightly show. Sissy Spacek insisted that real blood should be spilled onto her, which the director. It was the one and only exit that Carrie forgot to seal. and the word echoed in her mind. Patricia Clarkson as Carrie's mother Margaret White in Carrie (2002 remake). Patricia Clarkson portrayed Margaret White in the 2002 film remake. This Margaret is much calmer, but she also tries to kill Carrie for the same reasons, too. In this version, however, she doesn't try to kill Carrie with a knife. In her bedroom, Carrie angrily caused her mirror to shatter, and managed to rebuilt it before her mother could come in. Her mother manages to slash her arm in the process. Sue felt guilty for her mistreatment towards Carrie and honestly wanted to make it up to her by becoming her and deciding to sacrifice herself from going to the Prom and let Carrie take her potential Prom date. Family information The level of Carrie's "un-coolness" and the height of constant and verbal abuse she endured at the hands of her mother and peers and fellow classmates in the novel was far more extreme compared to the versions of the films. At the end after Sue's words, Carrie's headstone cracks before exploding, you hear her screams. After the death of 73 high school students in 1979, many people since then have left the town. As Tommy arrived, Carrie mentally telekinetically pushed her mother onto the bed to contain her, and left after saying she loved her. class, Carrie gets confronted by her classmates and gets her first period. Additionally that part of the town of Chamberlain is deserted. She also shares similarities to Dahlia Gillespie from the. When Carrie left the campus to return to her home, she made sure no one could put out her fire or tame her flames as she opened all the fire hydrants near the area to prevent the fire trucks from helping or saving anyone stuck inside. She then told Carrie, that boys only wanted "sex" from young girls like herself. Heterosexual Once outside and alone, Carrie began to weep upon the grass on the front lawn of the school's campus. However, she also entered a comatose state because of the murder attempt of her mother on her. Carrie makes a red dress for the Prom instead of pink, as depicted in the films. Carrie says yes and her mother kisses her on the forehead, telling her she loves her. by Carolyn Steber. Meanwhile, Margaret had "snapped" earlier on and hidden a knife under one of the floor boards to stab Carrie with, having fallen to the belief that her daughter was ruled by Satan. While they both recited the Lord's Prayer, Margaret stabbed Carrie and caused her to fall downstairs, backwards. But before Carrie died, Sue invited Carrie into her mind to see that she had no part in planning the nasty joke that occurred earlier that evening, and just paired her up with Tommy as amends for locker room incident. She then went into a church to pray, while at the same time, objects from the church such as pews, hymnals, and a communion set were thrown. Carrie's story becomes a controversial and highly discussed subject. While Carrie is at prom Margaret slams her arm out of the crack. Both are shocked. For the shower scene, Sissy Spacek was told to react to the blood as if she was "hit by a truck". Once the hot sparks from the cables caught onto the Prom's backdrop mural, causing it to completely catch fire, the hot flames quickly spread throughout the entire gym. Chris then had her friends rig the ballots for Prom King and Queen to ensure that Carrie and Tommy would win the contest. For the very first time in her young life, Carrie honestly looked and felt pretty, which was alien to her. Carrie mercilessly left the remaining Prom goers trapped inside with the now-dead Tommy to be consumed by the hellish inferno created by her telekinetic abilities and the rest was history. She can't just leave Carrie behind, what type of person does that. She had even tried to take part in the other camp's activities, but the jokes never stopped playing on "old praying, fart face Carrie", until she had come home on the bus a week early, her eyes, red and socket from weeping. Carrie then remembered her mother's ominous words that she would be scorned once again, Miss Collin's kind words of confidence, and the incident in the shower as, in her mind, everyone at the gym laughed at her. Tommy invited Carrie for a dance, which she initially declined. She is the mother of Carrie White and a Christian fanatic. When Carrie received the ballots for King and Queen, she noticed that they were there as candidates. In Carrie (1976) Margaret was shown to be very religious and very creepy. She desperately wants to please her abusive, Bible-thumping mother, but even more badly, she just wants a normal life. Ignoring her sorrow, a cold-hearted Margaret simply forced Carrie to pray, because she is still a girl who, according to her twisted beliefs, was susceptible to temptation. As Carrie fell on her knees, Margaret stabbed her child in the shoulder with the knife/dagger. Carrie returned the attack by using her powers to slow her mother's heart to a crawl. She spoke to her mother, saying that she would give her darkness and send her to "whatever God lives there". Next, she looked up and turned on the sprinkler system to wet everyone and ruin their expensive tuxedos and gowns, the only regret she had was it was raining water and not blood. Though Margaret had love for her daughter, her illness warped her perspective on reality and prevented her from loving Carrie in a responsible, positive way. Carrie then falls asleep in the closet shortly afterward. Biographical information Carrie set about locking all the Prom goers inside the gym, teachers and students alike by telekinetically sealing the gymnasium doors, slamming them shut all at once. Carrie's father Ralph, had another daughter named Rachel Lang, who was also a carrier of telekinesis. Carrie rolled downstairs, unable to stand up and run, as her insane mother approached her, ready to kill "the demon". Her death then causes Carrie to destroy the house with both of them in it before killing herself on the way. Biographical information At the gym, Carrie was well received by Frieda Jason, who complimented her dress, while Norma and Freddy DeLois mocked her and the others noticed how different she looked. Miss Collins later found Carrie alone and talked to her. Margaret lived with her parents John and Judith Brigham in Motton, Maine until 1960, when she moved to Chamberlain with Ralph White. Sissy Spacek was crowned Homecoming Queen in her teenage years. She also is very mad. Unaware of this, Carrie believed she was bleeding to death and asked for help from the other girls. The hotel phone required guests to dial a Why does Carries mom hurt herself 2013? There she meets Tommy's friend George and his girlfriend, Erika. Carrie kills her mother in an act of self-defense that can't really be called a victory, at least not in a traditional senseand yet, for a moment, Carrie looks up at her Despite being the main antagonist, she wasn't revealed to be the true villain until the very end. Carrie seemingly keeps her powers a secret from her mother until she talks about the Prom. Carrie arrived home and found the rooms filled with lighted candles and, washing the blood away, burst in tears. She even hates her daughter for her sinful ways. Margaret believes this is a sin and tried to "cleanse" Carrie by stabbing her, but Carrie instinctively uses her telekinesis to protect herself. Then, when Carrie told her that she was invited to the Prom, Margaret became incensed and threw tea at her. Carrie is also the granddaughter of John and Judith Brigham, the step-granddaughter of Harold Allison and the great-granddaughter of Sadie Cochran. Chris and Billy eventually arrived at the school unseen and quietly lurked outside the gym patiently. Margaret then passes by the hallway, without Carrie noticing. Seconds after, Sue got up to fetch for help, but could feel herself miscarrying, though she initially thought that she was apparently having her period. Ralph's accident took place 7 months before Carrie's birth. Shes so sick with depression and emotionally imbalanced that its presenting as a physical pain. When Fisher died at age 60, her mother and brother were left to plan her funeral, and during the preparations, Reynolds passed away from a stroke, some believe to have been caused by grief. Sissy Spacek (1976 movie)Angela Bettis (2002 TV movie)Chlo Grace Moretz (2013 movie)Linzi Hateley (1988 musical)Molly Ranson (2012 musical revival). WebHumiliated and enraged, Carrie loses control of her powers and lets loose a torrent of telekinetic energy that demolishes the school and kills several students. She also owns her own tailor shop in this film. But when Carrie told her mother about the Prom offer, Margaret threw tea onto Carrie's face and ranted. One night, they had premarital sex and Margaret became pregnant. She then proceeded to slap Carrie across the face and ordered her to go in the closet and pray, but Carrie refused. Chris had Billy viciously slaughter two pigs at a local farm and drain their blood into two big metal buckets. Countless of bystanders were killed in the streets and electrocuted by the wires of the fallen power lines as they evacuated from their burning homes. "She literally spent her life caring after Carrie," Todd Fisher (Carrie's brother) told Good Morning America. Carrie is deaf and mute, but finds other ways to assert her 2013 Margaret doesn't want to abuse or hurt Carrie, but she feels like she has to, in order to protect Carrie from things that she believes would be far worse - her classmates' ridicule, from being violated by males (as Margaret herself was, when maritally raped), and especially from God's judgment. Carrie, still covered in blood, much of it being her own by now, and one of her bare feet was bleeding from stepping on a broken bottle in the streets, had the intention of finally killing her mother who had been waiting for her daughter to return to her. When Ralph passed away, her mother survived off the money from the insurance and by working at the local laundry. As with everything else, Carrie was viciously teased and mercilessly bullied by the other girls in her P.E. WebA slave on the Weylin estate, Carrie is Sarah s daughter and the only child Sarah has left (as the others have been sold). Meanwhile, in the 2013 movie, during almost every scene, she expresses how much she loves Carrie. She then begins to study everything she can about her power. Stephen King states that the character of Carietta White, was based off of two real girls who he knew in his adolescent years while in grade school, both girls were bullied very much and one of them, like Carrie, had a fanatically religious mother. In the novel, Carrie White is described as being slightly unattractive, she is a "frog among swans". She clumsily attempted to flee the blood-splattered thrones while struggling to keep her balance. Carrie later went on to help other teens with their telekinesis in a hidden manner. As Carrie walked home barefoot, she left a path of destruction and death in her wake: she "flexed" her mind as hard as she could and made local gas mains at numerous corner stations explode, and let the broken pumps leak the spilled gasoline into the roads. In a cold rage, Carrie's mind finally snapped and she returned to the school barefooted and with a sadistic vengeance and a thirst for bloody revenge. We also recognize that the town of Chamberlain has changed because of Carrie's rampage. She stabs Carrie in George and Erika leave the two to dance and while Tommy wants to follow them, Carrie is scared to be in the center of attention. For all of her lonely childhood and misunderstood teenage life, Carrie, an only child, whose father abandoned his family and later died in a construction accident, was disciplined for being taken by curses and secretly abused and beaten into submission and mistreated by her mentally ill religiously fanatical mother for everything on a daily basis. 1979 Carrie manifests her powers in a state of trance (seen only in the 2002 film), while in the novel, she kills her bullies more consciously. When Carrie saw her mother and vice versa, both were shocked to realize that one wanted to kill the other. She warns her readers to never forget about Carrie, or the events that occurred in Chamberlain, or something like it could happen all over again. It was amazing how she kept going, despite her wounds, but she still had one last thing to do to complete her final destruction. Eventually, the gym exploded a half-hour later, demolishing the entire school. The new Bates High School is now instead in another part of thetown that has grown since Carrie's demise and there Rachel Lang, Carries half-sister, who is also a telekinetic, is an attending student along with her best friend who commits suicide after a cruel and degrading sexual prank is played on her. Billy's nose was broken and his torso was crushed into the steering wheel. When Carrie tells Margaret, that she's been asked to the prom, she says no. Carrie revealed she was asked to the prom by Tommy, and her suspicions that "they" were planning to humiliate her once again. Carrie then stays with her as the house gets crushed and sinks into the ground, presumably killing Carrie, too. Carrie also tried on matching high-heel shoes and a lovely corsage to complete the look. She was born in 1966, according to grave marker at the end of the film. There her own mother accused her of being a witch and tried to drown her. A girl named Rhonda Simard busted out in a crazed puppet dance when she accidentally stepped on one of the cables, causing her Prom gown to catch fire and burst into flames, setting her entirely ablaze. Carrie arrived home and found out that Margaret had been informed of the incident. Finallythe incident also became in time some kind of "Urban Legend" in the town. Margaret then appeared to seemingly comfort Carrie, telling her daughter that she was conceived after Ralph got drunk and they made love, which Margaret regretted. Margaret finally told Carrie that she would not allow her daughter to engage in such sinfulness after all she'd been taught. He also was the boyfriend of Sue Snell, who was one of the popular girls and a bully of Carrie. Eventually, Carrie made her way through the exit and out the lobby doors, losing both her high-heel shoes as if she were Cinderella fleeing from the Ball. Carrie questioned why she was not told by Carrie who called or was telling the girls laughed at her over her ignorance. Also in the novel, Carrie is sometimes locked in the closet by her mother for days on end without food, water or even bathroom breaks. When Carrie was almost 3-years-old, she encountered a young and beautiful neighbor girl named, The film versions of Carrie are heavily different from. One day after P.E. She had the "POWER!!!" In all continuities, Margaret finally went off the deep end and tried to murder Carrie when she returned from the Senior Prom after killing her peers as revenge for a cruel prank involving pig's blood. Carrie, thinking additionally that Tommy had been purposely killed for taking her to Prom, was overcome with humiliation and utter grief. Whos laughing now, Mom? Movie info She is allegedly the only daughter of Margaret and Ralph White, even though it hints that Ralph may have had other children with different women. She is also one of the few Stephen King protagonists to die. Carrie found that Sue was innocent and never really felt any personal hatred towards her. While Margaret attempted to recite The Lord's Prayer, her heart came to a complete stop. The mother hurts herself (example: She stabs herself with sewing needles). The assistant principal, Mr. Morton, who dismissed Carrie for the day, kept calling her "Cassie". But not one of her calls ever went through. After years of going back and forth, I cut my mother cleanly out of my life, 13 years before she died. On the evening of the Prom, Carrie prepared for the night and tried on the elegant and authentic Prom gown she made. A boy named. Angry by her mother's actions, Carrie decided it was time to teach her mother a lesson too. As Carrie fell on her knees, Margaret stabbed her child in the shoulder with the knife/dagger. In the novel, Margaret was working at the laundry in the town. Many perish in the fire (except Ms. Desjardin) and Carrie leaves, leaving a massive trail of destruction and flames while she walks home. Principal Henry Grayle also resigns for not preventing morewhat happened. She approaches her again and under the argument, that she must kill Satan in her attacks her again. Now there are instanceswhere Carrie's special abilities manifested all by itself without her even trying. Much for her rejoice, the couple was elected King and Queen of the Prom. In 2013, Hank Hunt's daughter, Kari, was attacked and killed by her estranged husband in a Marshall, Texas hotel room. Later, when Carrie announces that she has been asked to the prom, Margaret throws tea at her head in an attempt to dissuade her. Carrie's pleasure came to an end when a bucket of blood was spilled on her, much to her horror. Gender Like Barbara Lang, she too suffers from mental illness, however, unlike Margaret, Barbara is more laid-back, as she does not abuse her daughter. Family information Chris believed that Carrie was to blame for her being banned from going to the Prom after she became the ringleader in humiliating Carrie in the girls locker room, when she received her first period. When Tommy asks her if they want to vote for themselves, Carrie is unimpressed. Before she has the chance to do it, however, Carrie sends a group of knifes, pinning her against the doorway and killing her instantly, thus ending her life once and for all. Female She demands that she is going and wants to be normal. With the water from the firehose, Carrie knocked Norma down and electrified Mr. Fromm and the principal. class, who all laughed hysterically as they threw tampons, small towels and sanitary napkins at her while loudly chanting "Plug it up! Margaret gave birth to Carrie while in her house without medical assistance, causing Margaret to lose some blood. Her relationship with her daughter was extremely abusive from the time Carrie was a baby. At school, Carrie was made fun of by her peers and classmates into submission on a daily basis. Gender Age Her fanaticism is proven when Carrie goes outside and sees Estelle Horan, the daughter of her neighbor, sunbathing. She was a strong woman and a Christian fanatic. Still, Margaret's death continues to haunt Carrie afterwards during her journey to Florida with Sue. When Prom Night arrived, Margaret and Carrie got into another argument about the Prom. 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