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CARRIE Directed by BRIAN DE PALMA Screenplay by LAWRENCE D. COHEN...
...Carrie's ultimate triumph is spectacular beyond anything one is used to in this antique genre. Brian De Palma's sure and powerfully individual style, blending romance, darkish satirical humor and suspenseful spookiness, transforms what could have been dreary stuff. From its first shot, Carrie catches the mind, energetically shakes it and refuses to let go even after the end credits have rolled...
...could be argued that Carrie is, finally, just another idle, if entertaining, exploration of the psychic world, yet an other trip through country similar to that traversed in The Exorcist and The Omen. But there is a pointed glee in De Palma's satirical vision of high school society, an oddly compelling power in his juxtaposition of the banal and the awesome moving unsuspected amidst it. The moral reckoning to which that all leads may be curious, but it is surely cautionary. In any event, the journey to that reckoning is an exercise in high style that even...
Directed by BRIAN DE PALMA Screenplay by PAUL SCHRADER
What can be said is that Brian de Palma has made an exquisite entertainment that sends one back to Hitchcock, the masterly Vertigo in particular, for comparison. Obsession is a triumph of style over substance. Vilmos Zsigmond's camera, constantly on the move with a sinuous grace, is romantic in a manner seldom seen now in the movies. The late Bernard Herrmann's score, like the many he did for Hitchcock and Welles, is an instrument of flight, lifting the viewer up and over such resistance as he may have to the movie's patent improbability...