Carrie

Starring: John Travolta , Sissy Spacek , William Katt , Nancy Allen , Piper Laurie.
Directed by Brian De Palma and Mario Tosi.
Produced by Paul Monash.

De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, has become something of an old-school classic in the currently resurgent, blood-soaked genre of teenage gorefests. Spacek is a shy teenager with a fiercely religious mother who struggles to come to terms with her emerging sexuality and extraordinary telekinetic powers. Taunted by her more popular high school classmates, Carrie begins to come out of her shell when a member of the cool clique unexpectedly asks her to the senior prom. But just as she's beginning to enjoy the sudden change in her life, a cruel practical joke drives her to a monstrous act of revenge and destruction.