Instead, she tries to drown Carrie in the bathtub of her home after Carrie returns from the prom ordeal, forcing Carrie to use her telekinesis to cause Margaret's heart to stop to save her life, where Sue later finds her with Carrie in the bathtub on the brink of death. Once the classmates found a love letter from Carrie to a boy named, One year, Carrie was given the cruel nickname "pudding pop" by everyone and the next year she became known by the cruel nickname "pizza face" by everyone. Tommy visited Carrie, once again insisting in taking her to the ball. When Carrie accuses Sue of trying to trick her and forces Sue to experience the depth of Carries pain and misery, Sue offers her mind up to be read: (look carrie look #1: She always has to be right. The incidents of the rain of stones in both the past, when Carrie was a child, and in the present, when she destroys her house. After the explosion, Carrie became weak and collapsed in the middle of the lot out of exhaustion from overusing her powers and the blood loss caused by her wound. She doesn't, however, die in this position like in the original movie. Carrie (1976) She had no friends or contact with any other relatives, but was stable enough to hide her deepest problems from the outside world and keep a full-time job working on the speed iron and folder down at the local Blue Ribbon Laundry in downtown of Chamberlain, Maine. Relatives Carrie seemingly keeps her powers a secret from her mother until she talks about the Prom. Not only is the movie gory and vulgar, it also contains a sex scene. Indeed, Carrie was at the bottom of the social pyramid, but what no one knew, not even her mother, was that Carrie White was no ordinary girl, as she had been blessed or cursed, with hidden telekinetic and telepathic powers that were dormant during her youth, but brought to full force by the time she was in high school after she unexpectedly had her first period in the girl's locker room. The two were married on March 23rd, 1962, but on April 3rd, Margaret fell down the stairs and suffered a miscarriage. Since Carrie had no previous knowledge about the concept of menstruation the students rejection of Carrie became even fiercer. When Ralph passed away, her mother survived off the money from the insurance and by working at the local laundry. Her husband died on February of 1963 and she gave birth to her daughter, Carrie, alone in her house on September 21st, 1963. Meanwhile, in the 2013 movie, during almost every scene, she expresses how much she loves Carrie. Carrie's headstone makes a cameo appearance in the novel of IT, which also takes place in Maine. by Carolyn Steber. They also learned from this telepathythat it was Carrie White causing the destruction, regardless of if they knew or not who Carrie even was. 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. "She literally spent her life caring after Carrie," Todd Fisher (Carrie's brother) told Good Morning America. She then told Carrie, that boys only wanted "sex" from young girls like herself. Carrie reappears in the sequel, but only in flashbacks through a now middle-aged Sue Snell's memories about what happened regarding the events, which later lead to The Black Prom. WebA slave on the Weylin estate, Carrie is Sarah s daughter and the only child Sarah has left (as the others have been sold). 17 Surprising Signs Your Mom Is Toxic. Carrie Underwood has finally revealed the details of the nasty fall that caused her to need 40 stitches in her face and left her with a broken wrist. This is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel. She looks at Carrie, when she is cutting, sewing and making her prom dress, but quickly looks away when Carrie glances back at her. 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. A fire starts and the school burns down. As Tommy arrived, Carrie mentally telekinetically pushed her mother onto the bed to contain her, and left after saying she loved her. A boy named. She also is very mad. As Carrie screamed uncontrollably, the lamp above them exploded, much for Chris and Norma's thrill. Carrie (1976) To manipulate Carrie into staying at home, Margaret began to physically hurt herself as she scratched and clawed at own her face, pulled her hair out and punched herself in the mouth, causing herself to bleed a little. She locks her in the closet and orders her to pray for "forgiveness" when she learns about the shower incident, because she said it was a "curse" for Eve's disobedience offering Adam the fruit and creating the original sin. Ms. Desjardin tries to calm Carrie down and a light fixture breaks by itself. Additionally, Margaret would even lock Carrie inside of a small closet filled with religious icons so she could "pray for forgiveness", whenever Carrie displeased her. Margaret White is the main antagonist featured in the novel and all three film adaptions. Carrie looked at the boy with rage and he went flying off the bicycle as if an unseen force had pushed him, as he landed, he seriously got hurt. She then burns the lock, so Margaret can't escape and disturb the evening. Margaret then makes a crazy and wicked smile, as she follows Carrie down the stairs, ready to kill her, as though she on some sort of mission. Margaret, fearing the outcome, shouts Carrie. Carrie ignored her mother's crazy actions and even used her powers to physically slide her mother out the door of her bedroom and shut it in order to get ready without being distracted. Later that night, Tommy picked up Carrie for the Prom as he promised, while Margaret stayed by herself and prayed silently in another room. Two students on the platform were also immediately electrocuted, the lead band member, Josie Vreck, who was one of the loudest ones to laughed at Carrie, began to convulse uncontrollably when he touched the microphone and volts of electricity violently shot through his body. 17 Surprising Signs Your Mom Is Toxic. Carrie in this version is more similar to the book, but in modern terms. Angela Bettis was the actress who portrayed Carrie in 2002. Now there are instanceswhere Carrie's special abilities manifested all by itself without her even trying. While practicing at home, the lights flicker and her mother comes up with a knife to check if she is all right. It has become a sick and twisted memorial of that doomed night, and a painful reminder to the community of what happened in their town all those years ago. Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. During a dramatic sequence interspersed with Lily's (Cathy Ang) piano concert, Mr. Big was seen going hard at his spin class, before keeling over near the shower. 1932 The force is to strong, Carrie falls to her knees. Miss Collins, though worried, encouraged the girl by emphasizing how pretty she actually looked. When Carrie comes home, not knowing what happened, Margaret attempts to drown her correspondingly. In the end, an entire town was destroyed, taking 440 lives with it. Carrie then stabs Margaret with her TK with these house-hold objects crucifying her. Miss Desjardin calmed Carrie down and reassured her everything was going to be okay and that she wasn't dying. #1: She always has to be right. While a male bystander is walking nearby, he carelessly drops his lighted cigarette on the ground, not realizing the streets are covered in gas. The only way Margaret could save her condemned daughter was to kill her before the Devil did. Carrie is not killed in the second adaptation in 2002. Sue goes on to write a memoir about her involvement with Carrie White. She manages to slash Carrie's arm and then right as she is about to stab Carrie in the face, Carrie lifts her up. In the episode's very last scene, a vulnerable Zeke goes to see Carrie at her apartment, hoping to find comfort. With the water from the firehose, Carrie knocked Norma down and electrified Mr. Fromm and the principal. Sue drops to for no reason] [Sue gets back up. Chris was immediately thrown face-first into the dashboard, busting the glass windshield. 1979 Margaret White in Carrie was portrayed by Julianne Moore. Margaret is seen with her head down in the house while looking at a cross on the wall. Serving as the titular main villainous protagonist of Stephen King's first horror novel, Carrie, its three film adaptations Carrie film, Carrie TV Film and Carrie 2013 remake, a mentioned character in The Dead Zone and IT, and a posthumous character in The Rage: Carrie 2. She even hates her daughter for her sinful ways. In Carrie (1976) Margaret was shown to be very religious and very creepy. She is also one of the few Stephen King protagonists to die. Carrie arrived home and found out that Margaret had been informed of the incident. She told Carrie that the boys always come after the blood and that all boys want from girls is "sex" how they all like to take virgins into their cars to do dirty, ungodly and blasphemous things with them. Carrie telekinetically destroying most of Chamberlain! Carrie, in pain and slowly dying from her injuries, blamed Sue for the prank. But instead of a baby, a blood-covered arm comes out (Carrie's?). She was ready to face more hours locked in that dark, lonely closet praying endlessly for the rest of her life as she had always done before. assassination. Margaret also disliked her mother, Judith and her new husband, Harold Allison, because Margaret believed that both were living in sin. Billy's nose was broken and his torso was crushed into the steering wheel. However after Chris's video of her having her period appears on screen, Carrie realizes she has been made a fool of and reaches her final breaking point. "POWER" and oh, what a word that was! In her bedroom, Carrie angrily caused her mirror to shatter, and managed to rebuilt it before her mother could come in. Finallythe incident also became in time some kind of "Urban Legend" in the town. 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. Margaret then makes a crazy smile, as she follows Carrie downstairs ready to stab her again, as though she was in a sort of mission. She told Carrie that she had tried to kill her twice before during the first few years of Carrie's life, but she "backslid". Carrie then peered into the windows and watched students' faces smashed up against the glass like fish in an aquarium, seeing this made her laugh. In neither of the previous films nor the book did Margaret ever say "I love you". She then says, she thought that Carrie was a cancer when she was being born, Carrie reacts in pain and says it's awful acting a little aggressive on Margaret on the way. Died In the 2013 film adaptation, when Carrie tells Sue that her baby is a girl (conceived by both Sue and Tommy Ross) and saves her life from the destruction of her house, it is possible that Carrie now treats Sue as a friend. Her death causes Carrie to destroy the house with her and her mother in it dying on the way. Enraged, Carrie used her powers to close every door of the gym, locking everyone in, and turned the lights red. She then stalked the frightened child Much for her rejoice, the couple was elected King and Queen of the Prom. Over time, Margaret berated and abused Carrie every day for sins the child may or may not have committed and she would often make the child repeat passages out of one of her many religious books or hit and beat Carrie with them. In the third iteration it is unclear if Carrie survived or not and is it left to the imagination. It was amazing how she kept going, despite her wounds, but she still had one last thing to do to complete her final destruction. While at home, Carrie is tormented by her delusional mother (Piper Laurie), To Chris's delight, the prank was followed by a rain of cruel laughter in mass hysteria, by everyone in the Prom including the teachers and chaperones. Margaret practically chastised Carrie from right to wrong and began teaching the child that everything that one can think of is a "sin", a result of her abnormal beliefs. Her telekinesis would give her the ability to make her tormentors pay for what they had done. She strips off her bloody clothes and takes a bath, washing off the blood. 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. who was in Mr. Mortan, assistant principles office and why. But they never found any other church in the area that was up to their traditional standards, so they held worship at home instead. The school was rebuilt elsewhere in Chamberlain and the ruins of the former school are still there. If they stay here longer, they will be dead. The actress herself does the stunt for the infamous nightmare scene, after insisting on it. Carrie explained that she was actually born gifted with telekinesis. Angry by her mother's actions, Carrie decided it was time to teach her mother a lesson too. She saw how Tommy had fallen from the throne to the ground with people surrounding him and as she stood safely outside the auditorium, she decided to give everyone a taste of their own medicine ten times fold. Margaret was shown to be very religious and very creepy. Carrie (Novel) Soon after that, while she walked home, a 5-year-old boy named Tommy Erbterverbally harassed Carrie while riding past her on his bicycle. Suddenly, one of the band musicians on stage was severely electrocuted by the large amp that had gotten soaked from the water. Enraged, Carrie acts strongly similar to, Carrie is not gifted with telepathy in the films. 16 Sexuality Throughout much of the movie, there were segments where different characters gave their accounts of the Ewen High prom night incident. This woman died because her master beat her child out of 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. When Carrie reveals that she has been asked to go to the Prom and that she said yes, Margaret tells her not to go, which forces Carrie to throw her on to the bed. We also recognize that the town of Chamberlain has changed because of Carrie's rampage. Clocks, dishes, plates, pictures, and other religious objects where tossed and thrown into the air, breaking and shattering as they fell to the floor. But Carrie used her power and slammed them shut again, catching somebody's fingers, to her, it felt like Dale Norbert in the jamb, severing one of them. Carrie's powers were strong even when she was a small child and she was also able to read other people's minds and inner thoughts when they were close enough to her, namely Miss Desjardin, the gym teacher, who secretly felt both disgusted and pity for the young girl. Once, Tommy had even been approached by the Boston Red Sox team, who wanted to recruit him after he graduated. Carrie yelled that it was not her name and his ashtray fell off his desk as if it moved by itself. She wanted to protect Carrie and not let her go out into the real world. Carrie's name on the Prom King and Queen ballot. Tricked once again, Carrie was going to simply accept what had happened and shamefully return back to her home to admit to her mother she'd been right after all. Before Carrie could make it to the exit, she was deliberately tripped by someone in the crowd and fell, causing the laughter to grow even louder. Margaret then tormented, slapped, pushed, pulled and threw Carrie into the closet and Carrie became vulgar with her mother. At the end after Sue's words, Carrie's headstone cracks before exploding, you hear her screams. Several weeks later, Carrie visits her grave for the first and last time before leaving town with Sue. At first it was funny, until she couldn't get her breath, but the kids kept calling her a "scratch a**" and Carrie got so panicky that she began to scream for air. 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 stood her ground and refused. In an alternate ending, we see Sue giving birth to the baby mentioned by Carrie. Tommy invited Carrie for a dance, which she initially declined. Carrie arrived home and found the rooms filled with lighted candles and, washing the blood away, burst in tears. Within a year, she left for good. In the first section of the story, Carrie had a greasy face with blackheads and wore stockings that were always running or about to run and she was always showing sweat stains under the arms of her blouses. Carrie killed 73 people at the night of the Prom. Despite being the main antagonist, she wasn't revealed to be the true villain until the very end. Miss Collins was forced to slap her on the face and apologized, comforting her. Margaret White was portrayed by Piper Laurie. Just as planned, Carrie and Tommy were announced as the winners. Miss Collins arrived and stopped them, expelling the girls from the locker room. Angered, Carrie caused his ashtray to fall down and be knocked out by Carrie, after the principal kept calling her "Cassie". It's a rather big mystery, due to the fact Carrie killed almost all of the witnesses in her mass homicide, and with so many people dead and so much destroyed outerly and innerly, Chamberlain becomes a virtual ghost town, and even a popular tourist attraction because of Carries actions. The novel closes with a letter written by a hillbilly woman in Tennessee whose baby daughter is developing incredibly strong advanced telekinetic abilities as well. She was a strong woman and a Christian fanatic. One of the best parts of the novel Carrie is Carrie's dramatic inner conflict about whether or not she should go to prom. The car exploded, killing both Chris and Billy instantly and also destroying the building, starting yet another major fire that burned all through the parking lot. 8. She then throws Margaret softly on the ground, as Margaret mourns. 2 boys caught for skipping French 1, got a weeks detention for staring at the blood. She was admitted to Westover Doctors Hospital. She then screams in pain and agony as Carrie crucifies her, so that she won't recover from her attack and continue to try to kill her. She locks her in the closet and orders her to pray for "forgiveness" when she learns about the shower incident, because she said it was a "curse" for Eve's disobedience offering Adam the fruit and creating the original sin. When Carrie gets home after destroying the prom and killing Chris and Billy, she walks upstairs and calls for Margaret. Carrie, with the butcher knife still stuck deep in her shoulder to the hilt, wandered aimlessly until she approached The Cavalier roadhouse, where her father drunk himself into a stupor before raping Margaret. 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