Carrie (2013) is a more gorey and chilling take on the 1976 original directed by Brian De Palm.
Click here for a list I found online which outlines differences between 1976 and 2013 Carrie.
Here are similarities and differences I found while watching:
What I thought of the movie overall & How it relates to our project
1. Overall I really enjoyed this adaption of the original. It subverted alot of elements such as there being no use of Psycho strings when Carrie breaks the lights in the shower. The change which I found specifically interesting was the use of violence, as it shows that people who engage in Horror in contemporary times expect to see blood and graphic imagery. This contrasts with directors in the 70s who were aiming to scare audiences by toying with their imaginations, which is shown in films such as Halloween (1978) and A Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).
2. In our Horror trailer we must make sure our target audience is able to gain a sense of familiarity with what they expect to see when engaging in Horror, but also that as theorist Paul Wells highlighted in his research younger audiences are becoming harder to scare as they are increasingly immune to graphic imagery, which means as we plan to make our trailer a 15 we must remember different ages react differently to certain themes.
3. We agreed that 15 would be a perfect classification for our narrative because it is psychological in the way it toys with the audiences imagination of who is good and who is bad (which challenges expectations of contemporary Horror films as they are often graphically explicit and scary), but also graphic in terms of the fathers death with the iconography of a knife. Overall if we get the perfect balance of gore and psychological aspects I believe we would definitely be able to effectively elicit a strong reaction of fear from our audience.
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