Breaking Emotions: Fear

MettelRay has started another fun blogathon - this time she is posting a list of emotions and participants can share movie scenes that caused them to have those emotions. Yesterday she posted awkwardness and fear. Instead of giving 3 examples for each, I'll give 5 examples for fear.

Carrie

Fire walk with me

Scene of the Week: Carrie

directed by Brian De Palma

The Prom Massacre

The scene: In one of the most famous scenes in history when Carrie and Tommy get on stage as the Queen and King of the prom, Chris pulls the rope attached to the bucket with pig's blood, which falls on Carrie and knocks Tommy unconscious. Carrie, horrified, disturbed and shocked focuses her rage and her telekinetic powers of her schoolmates and even on Miss Collins, who was her friend - in her demented mind Carrie thinks she is laughing at her. De Palma used split screen here which is extremely effective - at the same time we are able to see the horror and the bloodshed and extremely frightening look on Carrie's face. Originally the entire prom sequence was shot this way but De Palma changed it. The massacre ends with Carrie setting the place on fire and walking through the door. What's adds to the horror of the scene is Pino Donaggio's score, heavily inspired by Bernard Hermann's work, who was originally set to compose music for "Carrie" but he died shortly before the making of the movie.

8 actresses who would be a better choice for Carrie than Chloe Moretz

Good Lord, it came to that. They are remaking "Carrie". The idea to remake Brian De Palma's brilliant masterpiece is ridiculous. For a while I was hoping that the project will die out, just like another stupid idea - "The Birds" remake. Unfortunately, yesterday the news broke about the studio finding the actress for the main part. And wow, it suddenly became even worse idea than it was. They want Chloe Moretz to play Carrie. 15 year old actress, who while was good in horror movie "Let me in" looks nothing like someone you would see and go "oh, I bet kids bullied her in school". She would be good in "Taxi Driver" remake playing adolescent hooker, not troubled girl with telekinetic powers. What's so memorable about Spacek's Carrie are her amazing eyes that were often the focus of the movie - Moretz doesn't stand a chance.  I mean there are some things that just can't get better - Spacek was 27 years old when she played Carrie, yet she captured her innocence and the sense of being lost completely. However if I had to chose someone to play Carrie, here are my 8 choices, who would all be better than Moretz:.

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