Carrie (2013)
- The original script for Carrie was written over a decade before production finally began in 2013.
- During the filming of Carrie, Chloë Grace Moretz improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Kimberly Peirce's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by Kimberly Peirce, a modernized adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 debut novel. Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Carrie White, a sheltered, bullied teenager raised by her fanatically religious mother Margaret, played by Julianne Moore, who discovers she has telekinetic powers that manifest as her body matures. When a cruel prank at the senior prom humiliates Carrie in front of the entire school, her powers erupt in a catastrophic, vengeful destruction of everyone in the gymnasium.
The remake updated Carrie's story to the social media era, with the inciting bullying incident filmed on a phone and uploaded online, amplifying the humiliation beyond the physical space of the school. Julianne Moore's Margaret White was a more psychologically textured portrayal than Piper Laurie's operatic original, depicting religious mania as a manifestation of genuine mental illness rather than pure villainy. Carrie earned $84 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.
