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. A while later, her daughter, Carrie was conceived and Ralph was killed in a construction accident. While Margaret attempted to recite The Lord's Prayer, her heart came to a complete stop. Margaret dies the same way as the original Margaret, with house-hold objects stabbing her and being crucified. This is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel. Still, Margaret's death continues to haunt Carrie afterwards during her journey to Florida with Sue. There she meets Tommy's friend George and his girlfriend, Erika. Carrie was very nervous, excited and happy all at the same time and was determined to keep her promise to Tommy and go. 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. Carrie then stabs Margaret with her TK with these house-hold objects crucifying her. She looks at Carrie, when she is cutting, sewing and making her prom dress, but quickly looks away when Carrie glances back at her. Carrie is not killed in the second adaptation in 2002. No one could explain how it happened, but somehow, Margaret knew. 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. 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". A boy named. Carrie returns home where she finds that her mother has escaped the closet and has gotten hold of a kitchen knife. 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. Eventually, she comes across Chris and Billy who attempt to kill her by running her over, but she uses her power to stop the car and in the process kills Billy, then sends the car flying into the gas station, killing Chris in the process. But instead, he finds a body hanging from the ceiling presumably Carrie's. Carrie insisted she would go to the Prom, and that things were about to change for them. The knife/dagger caused Carrie's death because of Carrie's blood loss and Carrie's body shut down. Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. After the death of 73 high school students in 1979, many people since then have left the town. She has blonde hair and very pale skin. Died Chris was also the most beautiful and popular girl in school whose father was a very successful and wealthy lawyer. She can't just leave Carrie behind, what type of person does that. Her mother tells her of the night she was raped and therefore conceived her. Miss Collins, though worried, encouraged the girl by emphasizing how pretty she actually looked. She doesn't, however, die in this position like in the original movie. It is implied, she has decided to kill her daughter to "free her of Satan". Her clothes and her hair were very witch-like and she had a very religious background. 1932 Carrie was the eldest of four girls and two boys. Margaret liked and loathed the event. #1: She always has to be right. 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. In 2013, Hank Hunt's daughter, Kari, was attacked and killed by her estranged husband in a Marshall, Texas hotel room. Tommy visited Carrie, once again insisting in taking her to the ball. Carrie (2002) It seemed as if Margaret punished Carrie for her own personal sins and took her own inner pain and frustration out on her own daughter. 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. When Carrie goes out to look for a dress and comes home late Margaret gets furious and says she worried about her and was wondering where she was. While this happens, she then shows a creepy smile, after letting out a big, painful death scream, Margaret dies. However, one night in December of 1963, Ralph tried to seduce Margaret and she kicked him out of the house. Margaret had a serious mental problem that made her devote her life to being a Christian who believed everything was sinful, even sexual intercourse, including within marriage. Before she could reach her, Carrie looked at Miss Desjardin's direction and she flew backward as if she was being pushed by an unseen force. Carrie's father Ralph, had another daughter named Rachel Lang, who was also a carrier of telekinesis. Margaret believes this is a sin and tried to "cleanse" Carrie by stabbing her, but Carrie instinctively uses her telekinesis to protect herself. She locks her in the closet and orders her to pray for (Compare these latter 2 examples to the 1976 version, where Margaret coldly says "go to bed.") Carrie says yes and her mother kisses her on the forehead, telling her she loves her. Age Additionally that part of the town of Chamberlain is deserted. Carrie researches about telekinesis for better understatement, while in the novel, she never does so. Carrie (Novel) Perhaps after you have done this for a bit you will not get as upset when she criticizes you. But they never found any other church in the area that was up to their traditional standards, so they held worship at home instead. Margaret first discovers Carrie's powers, when she slams all the windows shut trapping her in and Carrie tells her, she is going to the prom. Once when Carrie was at the school picnic, she bent down to pray and the seam of her skirt ripped so loudly that the crack of her butt was being shown, causing everyone to laugh at her. For some reason, both viewed any form of sex, even marital intercourse, as sinful. Carrie, in pain and slowly dying from her injuries, blamed Sue for the prank. Carrie brings her down and cries because of what she has done, while Margaret is still alive. Knowing she was responsible for what had happened to Ewen High and downtown Chamberlain, Billy tried to run Carrie down with his car to kill her. A few days later at school, when the incident had died down, Carrie was unexpectedly approached by Tommy Ross, who asked her to go to the Senior Prom with him. In the beginning of the movie, the Bible is in a puddle of water. We also recognize that the town of Chamberlain has changed because of Carrie's rampage. Despite having psychic powers, Carrie White can be classified as a non-genetic class Metahuman/Superhuman/Superpowered Human/Homo Superior. The gown was a thick fabric of red crushed velvet with a princess waistline, Juliet sleeves and allowed her cleavage to slightly show. But when Carrie told her mother about the Prom offer, Margaret threw tea onto Carrie's face and ranted. She wanted a new beginning and saw the Senior Prom as a part of that change. Once outside and alone, Carrie began to weep upon the grass on the front lawn of the school's campus. Due to seeing that orange haze in the sky from the flames burning all throughout the town, Margaret had come to believe the Devil had truly come to Chamberlain to collect Carrie's soul. This version of the character in general was more similar to the novel than Sissy Spacek's portrayal. Since 1st grade, Carrie had been the school's scapegoat and outcast. 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. Her husband died on February of 1963 and she gave birth to her daughter, Carrie, alone in her house on September 21st, 1963. Family information It breaks Margaret's own heart to feel like she has to treat her daughter this way; compare to the 1976 Margaret especially who seemed to take pleasure in abusing Carrie, even laughing and smiling as she did so. Margaret stabs Carrie in the back, but they fly in opposite directions. And sure enough, the wildfire eventually reached the Whites' bungalow and nearly burned it completely down as well. WebHowever, Carrie realized that she did not care about where her power came from as she found it to be a special thing about herself. Also, most importantly, Carrie let loose a strange side effect of her abilities: "broadcast telepathy," which means that anyone within a certain radius of the disaster area suddenly found themselves learning about the destruction at Ewen High and downtown Chamberlain. We learn that Sue had a mental breakdown and was put into a mental hospital due to the guilt of what happened to Carrie, Tommy Ross and all the other students she knew back in 1979. Carrie begins walking away, ignoring Tommy's attempts to get her back on stage. One night, they had premarital sex and Margaret became pregnant. Margaret was very evil and very abusive to her daughter, Carrie. After following Carrie downstairs and trying to tempt her not to go, Carrie grabs her mother with her TK. Her mother lets her out and asks Carrie if she finished praying. Carrie, however, refused and, as her powers caused their windows to beat, was called a "witch" by a horrified Margaret. Sissy Spacek (1976 movie)Angela Bettis (2002 TV movie)Chlo Grace Moretz (2013 movie)Linzi Hateley (1988 musical)Molly Ranson (2012 musical revival). The two were married on March 23rd, 1962, shortly after, but on April 2nd, 1962, Margaret was admitted to Westover Doctors Hospital for a suspected miscarriage. This surprised both Tommy and Carrie, who walked away as if nothing had happened. 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. While in the films, she works a part-time job as a seamstress in a clothing store. Carrie mercilessly eliminated and killed anybody who had ever hurt, neglected or underestimated her before returning home after leaving a path of destruction in her wake to ultimately confront and finally kill her crazy, homicidal mother before dying on that very same night that ended up making national history. Tommy was hit on the head by the bucket above them and fell unconscious. Carrie then threw the kitchen's knives onto her mother, stabbing her pinned to the walls. Chris alsofilms Carrie with her phone while the other girls throw tampons and sanitary napkins at Carrie. Tommy then furiously exclaims, "WHAT THE HELL?!" After Carrie lifts her up, Carrie says she's sorry while she summons telekinetically stabbing things. They rushed to the exits and tried to bang on the doors, hammering them, pounding on them to open them, but Carrie's powers were far too strong, they were trapped! If there's one thing this woman is Carrie could see with her telepathic powers where the real Miss Desjardin was and how she was still laughing like everyone else. Before she has the chance to do it, however, Carrie sends a knife pinning her hand into the wall. Margaret's constant scolding continued from Carrie's childhood to her teenage years. Her fanaticism is proven when Carrie goes outside and sees Estelle Horan, the daughter of her neighbor, sunbathing. This may be hinting that Carrie's soul has been passed on to a happy family, something she always wanted. DeceasedAlive (2002 TV movie only) She is also similar to Ed Gein's mother, Augusta, who inspired Norma Bates from the 1960 film. Carrie lived in the very small and peaceful town of Chamberlain, Maine, with her severely mentally unstable mother who had cut her daughter off from all social life due to her religious beliefs. The hotel phone required guests to dial a 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. Hearing this, many people inside panicked and that started a stampede. by Carolyn Steber. She is acting like a child, and therefore needs to be treated like one. She telekinetically pushes her mother into the closet and locks the door (in addition, she somehow welds the lock). Getty Images/LaylaBird/E+/Getty Images. 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. However, she also entered a comatose state because of the murder attempt of her mother on her. by Carolyn Steber. At the beginning of the film, Carrie has her first period in the showers and is harassed by Chris and her gang. 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. Carrie admits that she doesnt want to kill herself, she just wants to stop hurting. In her early years, Margaret's father, John Brigham was killed in a brutal gun battle and several years later she opened a fundamentalist church group. Margaret, fearing the outcome, shouts Carrie. She desperately wants to please her Margaret Brigham-White, best known as Margaret White is the opening antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse. Getty Images/LaylaBird/E+/Getty Images. Carrie yelled that it was not her name and his ashtray fell off his desk as if it moved by itself. In the novel, however, Margaret is aware of them ever since she saw her baby bottle floating over her. Carrie arrived home and found out that Margaret had been informed of the incident. It was usually triggered by her own inner frustration and private misery and would flare whenever she lost her temper. She is asked to the prom by Tommy but thinks it is a trick and is confronted again while walking home. 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. Carrie returned the attack by using her powers to slow her mother's heart to a crawl. 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. 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 bucket thenkills Tommy and everyone laughs at Carrie. WebWhy does Carrie's mom hurt herself 2013? However, little did Carrie or anyone else know was that she was walking into a vile prank initiated by another girl in her class, Chris Hargensen, the main leader of Carrie's tormentors who ruthlessly bullied her, as well as all her life. Enraged, Carrie used her powers to close every door of the gym, locking everyone in, and turned the lights red. WebWhy does Carrie's mom hurt herself 2013? On the eve of her departure, she told An-mei a story from her childhood, when she was a little girl about An-mei's age. Here, Carrie could feel them, almost taste them with her telepathy. She also confessed that Carrie was conceived by marital rape and that she was a punishment from God. Margaret ordered Carrie to go to the closet to pray, but Carrie refused. Margaret then tells Carrie after the Prom massacre at home, that she was raped by Ralph, gains her trust and then stabs Carrie in the back. With Margaret dead, Carrie then left her home as the whole neighborhood street was on fire, consuming all the houses on the block one after the other. By this point, the entire heart of Chamberlain was up in flames, taking literally hundreds of lives with it. This caused more explosions that destroyed and demolished the town shops and local businesses. Tragically, making a direct and detail-perfect novel-to-film adaptation of anything is impossible.Something will always be left out. Margaret also disliked her mother, Judith and her new husband, Harold Allison, because Margaret believed that both were living in sin. A loved child, but a child nonetheless. She then dropped them upon the wet ground below. Tommy invited Carrie for a dance, which she initially declined. Still, a few items on this list may have affected you. In the aftermath of this version, Carrie did not die, because Sue later came to her place and managed to revive her by performing CPR. In the novel, Carrie White is described as being slightly unattractive, she is a "frog among swans". She also is very mad. 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. Margaret finally told Carrie that she would not allow her daughter to engage in such sinfulness after all she'd been taught. Sue drops to for no reason] [Sue gets back up. This was a very good thing because Carrie also had a secret crush on Tommy. The 1976 film of Carrie starred Sissy Spacek. She changes into her pyjamas and meets her mother in the upstairs hall. WebA slave on the Weylin estate, Carrie is Sarah s daughter and the only child Sarah has left (as the others have been sold). Margaret then deduced that "Satan" had began his work on Carrie, but the girl made it clear that it was her power and not Satan. On August 17th, 1966, her house was deluged with stones from the sky, which were brought on by Carrie's telekinetic power after she punished her particularly hard. 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. Margaret dies later in her arms, but Carrie does not bring her to the closet like Carrie in the original movie did. People all over the world are also scared that another telekinetic child could be born. After cradling her mother to death, Carrie realizes what she has done and makes stones begin to rain from the sky. WebAs Carrie fell down to her knees to weep and pray with her mother, Margaret stabbed her daughter in the shoulder; the blade went all the way into Carrie's shoulder with only the 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. Furthermore, when Carrie was almost 3 years old, she conversed with a young girl next door about her breasts, Margaret became very unhinged and started to scratch herself, howl and scream, shaking violently she grabbed Carrie and shoved her indoors/back in the house to give her a harsh reprimand for associating with their young neighbor. Miss Collins arrived and stopped them, expelling the girls from the locker room. In preparation for her role, Sissy Spacek isolated herself from the rest of the ensemble, decorated her dressing room with heavy religious iconography and studied Gustave Dor's illustrated Bible. She strips off her bloody clothes and takes a bath, washing off the blood. WebThis is disturbing for a few reasons: (1) getting your first period in public is the most embarrassing thing to ever exist, (2) poor Carrie had no clue what was happening to her and honestly thought she was hurt or dying, and (3) despite all this, she was tormented, mocked, laughed at, and assaulted by other girls in the locker room. Carrie then left the house afterwards. Carrie's mother believed that children should spend time with those enslaved by the family, so young Carrie had She would also scratch, punch, pull out her own hair or otherwise hurt herself in order to compel Carrie to agree with her and obey her ridiculous rules. Carrie reveals her power to her mother by lifting up all the furniture and her mother off the floor. Finished, Carrie thanked her mother and went upstairs. WebDana comments on the poor medical care for pregnant women in the past, but Kevin corrects her. At Prom night, Margaret approached Carrie, stating that she knew Carrie would wear "red", while her dress was actually pink. Status Afterwards, she explained to Carrie what menstruation was and told her it was a natural part of womanhood. Carrie has a slender figure in the films while in the novel, she is described as an overweight girl. She lies down on the bed with her. Carrie (1976) Plus, she always hated her parents for their sinful ways. Her mother, Popo, told her that she could no longer be a child. In the original story, instead of dying by being crucified by kitchen utensils, Carrie slowly stopped her heart, giving Margaret a heart attack. She then throws Margaret softly on the ground, as Margaret mourns. 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