Last night I turned on the teevee and caught the tail end of a perplexing remake of Carrie. In this version, the filmmakers forsook the flashy crucifixion-by-kitchen-implements/self-crushing-by-telekinetically-imploded-house ending in favor of a lowkey bathtub-drowning/heart-attack end for Carrie and her mom. They would have done better, as Tim Blair did with some other scripts, to rewrite the film using comments from Free Republic.
Posted by Andrea Harris at June 9, 2003 01:34 AMThat was how Carrie killed her mother in the original novel.
Posted by: James A. Wolf at June 9, 2003 at 02:07 PMAh -- it was one of those "let's be more faithful to the book" scripts. I'm surprised Brian DePalma didn't go for a cheesy heartcam shot, but it was the Seventies -- crucifixion-by-Ginsu had much more relevance then. (I've never read the book, as if you couldn't tell. I'm not much of a Steven King fan.)
Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 9, 2003 at 04:17 PM