For this month’s Good/Bad Film Club, inspired by the new 4K reissue of Brian De Palma’s classic Stephen King adaptation of Carrie, we present the original film in all its restored glory alongside a rare 35mm screening of the much maligned, secretly excellent 1999 sequel The Rage, a Y2K slasher that awaits rediscovery as a subversive gem.
Carrie
A young woman facing bullying (the iconic Sissy Spacek) begins to display extraordinary telekinetic abilities which her devout mother attributes to the work of the devil, in Brian De Palma’s blood-soaked classic Stephen King adaptation, screening here in a brand new 4K restoration. As brilliant now as it was on release, this is one the great horror classics.
The Rage: Carrie 2 (35mm)
In this sequel to Brian De Palma’s 1976 horror classic, a high school teenager with an unexplored link to the now deceased Carrie White begins to experience telekinetic abilities when she reports an act of sexual violence at her school. Playfully utilising the mythos and iconography of the original film, this sequel to Carrie by director Katt Shea (Poison Ivy) is both a knowing and subversive twist on the original film (including a cameo from Carrie’s Amy Irving), with an unabashedly bloody denouement. Ripe for rediscovery, don’t miss this lost horror gem on the big screen, presented on glorious 35mm.