EW's Owen Gleiberman on why 'Carrie' was the movie that made him want to become a film critic.
gives me the opportunity to look back at the 1976 original, which is still one of my favorite films — and, in fact, one of the mostdid more than thrill, frighten, and captivate me; it sent a volt charge through my system that rewired my imagination, showing me everything that movies could be. I'll never forget the first time I saw, at my local mall the day after Thanksgiving. I was a teenage geek who was fast on his way to becoming a movie freak .
had affected me, but I had no real idea why. Even the ending carried a tingle of mystery: I'd been scared by other big shock moments in horror films — why did the fear factor of this one cut so deeply? From that first viewing, the movie possessed me, and somehow, I had to understand what it was aboutthat had gotten into my system. And so I thought about the movie. All the time. And went back to see it. Again and again. And even tried to write about it .
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