Carrie!!!!

Carrie.

Horror re-makes are something that has been quite popular recently, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead and now here Carrie has it's own re-make/re-imagining. Of course we all remember the Brian De Palma original from 1976 that saw a demure little girl go to prom and unleash her telekinetic powers. This re-make is something that obviously follows in the same vein as the original but with a few added little tweaks and changes to keep up to date. 

Starring as Carrie (Chloe Grace Moretz) we see her this time in a water polo game, the outcast and near the side of the pool she eventually hits the ball straight into a girls face. Back in the changing room and this time the girls are alot more covered up Carrie experiences her first period and mistakenly screams that she is dying. The girls in tern throw sanitary products at her while one of the girl films Carrie's misfortune on her mobile phone which later on will be posted onto YouTube. 

As Carrie starts to notice these strange things she can do she decides to research her telekinetic powers, reading books in the library and watching videos on YouTube she learns about what she can and can't do. With the girls who bullied and taunted her being punished one girl Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde) feels bad for what she did to Carrie and asks her boyfriend Billy Nolan (Alex Russell) to take her to prom. 

Of course Carrie has the constant struggle with her very devout religious mother Margaret White (Julianne Moore) who says she should have killed her at birth. Locking her in a cupboard under the stairs and telling her to pray she does nothing but scare her daughter. 

With Carrie deciding to go to prom she makes her own dress and goes against her mothers word "they'll all laugh at you" is the only words she gets from her mother. Of course her fellow school bully and now banned from prom Chris (Portia Doubleday) is hatching her revenge on Carrie by putting a bucket of blood up above the stage to pour all over Carrie and humiliate her even more.

For people who have seen the original we all know what happens, Carrie is covered in blood and she

 soon enough exacts her revenge on everyone who had laughed, taunted, maimed or given her false hope. Bodies fly across the room, fires erupt and alot of people are killed in her mad fit of telekinetic rage. She also goes after Chris and her boyfriend and in a clever new way she gets her final revenge. 

For a re-make it isn't too bad, it has the blood filled deaths that we all expected and being 2013 the CGI and special effects are used to make them look more sinister and impressive. Chloe Grace Moretz for me didn't look too demure enough and this isn't to criticise her natural size she could have been alot slimmer and look more vulnerable. She does look alot more menacing with the upwards glare you can see the evil in her eye which is not what Carrie was she was an innocent girl with scary new powers who just wanted to fit into society. The odd little tweaks of how a mobile phone video is posted of Carrie on YouTube brings the film more up to date with current times which is good.

The film went with the tact of having Julianne Moore being more psychotic, bashing her head against the wall, stabbing herself in the leg, scratching her wrists till they bled she was more menacing. To me this was a great idea as it shows the ferocity in the mother and the determination she went too to protect her only daughter. 

Overall a good re-make that could have been so much more if it had changed and made it alot more appealing. For anyone that hasn't seen the original then you will love it as a standalone psychological style film for anyone else who HAS seen the original be ready to grumble and constantly compare the two.

7/10.