History Trivia / Carrie1976

** The script carries over Margaret's line "Red. I might have known it would be red" when she first sees Carrie in her prom dress in the novel, but the costume department provided a pale pink dress for Sissy Spacek to wear. Piper Laurie insisted that they keep the line as it is, believing it would help illlustrate how far gone Margaret is in her puritanical beliefs.

** The red baseball cap Norma wears was worn by PJ Soles at her first audition, and [=De Palma=] encouraged her to wear it again in the follow-ups, and finally in the film itself. She was initially only cast for two weeks, but De Palma liked her ThrowItIn of hitting Creator/SissySpacek with the cap during one scene and her role was greatly expanded.

* FollowTheLeader: Any film about a teenage outcast who gets revenge on her (or, less commonly, his[[note]]If it's a male villain, it's more likely to draw on the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre and other real-life school shootings for inspiration.[[/note]]) classmates is going to be compared to ''Carrie'' at some point. Doubly so if the revenge is carried out through supernatural means.
** The most {{JustForFun/egregious}} example is possibly the 1978 film ''Film/{{Jennifer}}'', which is basically ''Carrie'' with snakes.
** And the 1987 film ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII'', which is ''Carrie'' meets ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''.
** ''Film/{{Evilspeak}}'' is an '80s male version of Carrie, though set in a military school, powers ''actually'' given from a Satanic source (a computer this time), and funnily enough, demonic pigs standing in for psychic powers during the rampage.
** ''Film/Zapped1982'' is ''Carrie'' PlayedForLaughs, with telekinetic powers transferred to Scott Baio through {{lightning|CanDoAnything}}.
** In a different sense, the two remakes use elements from the original film rather than the novel, despite both otherwise trying to be TruerToTheText. Carrie wears a red dress to the prom, but all films make the dress pink. In the book, she flees the prom before deciding to take revenge -- all films have her doing it immediately from the stage. All films also turn a book character into Chris's BetaBitch and has her rig the voting -- it was entirely Chris and Billy in the novel, and Carrie won legitimately. Likewise, in the novel [[spoiler: Margaret is killed before Chris and Billy, with the climax involving Sue confronting Carrie after she kills the latter two]], but all films have [[spoiler: Margaret's death]] as the climax.

** Since you have full frontal nudity in a high school girls' locker room during ''the opening credits'', out of necessity the "teenagers" were all in their 20's at the time. Creator/SissySpacek was 26, Creator/AmyIrving was 23, Creator/WilliamKatt was 25, Creator/NancyAllen and PJ Soles were 26 and Creator/JohnTravolta was 22. However, in the original book, Billy's a nineteen-year-old who had to repeat a year. Joked about by WebVideo/CinemaSins, who notes that by comparison, CreatorBettyBuckley ends up looking lie, they hired a student to teach gym class.

* FlipFlopOfGod: Various people who worked on the film have given conflicting answers on whether everyone is really laughing at Carrie after she gets covered in blood, or it's just a hallucination on her part. It's strongly implied to be at least partially a hallucination, though Miss Collins is the only one who's been confirmed to have not been laughing at her. It's unclear how many other people are laughing at her, but it's entirely possible only the mean girls laughed.

** The most {{JustForFun/egregious}} example is possibly the 1978 film ''Film/{{Jennifer}}'', which is basically ''Carrie'' '''[[RecycledINSPACE with snakes!]]''' Lampshaded by WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob when he reviewed both ''Carrie'' and ''Jennifer'' on the same video.

* ImageSource: For PromWrecker.

** Since you have full frontal nudity in a high school girls' locker room during ''the opening credits'', out of necessity the "teenagers" were all in their 20's at the time. Creator/SissySpacek was 26, Creator/AmyIrving was 23, Creator/WilliamKatt was 25, Creator/NancyAllen and PJ Soles were 26 and Creator/JohnTravolta was 22. However, in the original book, Billy's a nineteen-year-old who had to repeat a year.
** Edie [=McClurg=] has said that, despite the fact that her Website/IMDb page says she was born in 1951, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVTpYPYxcnI she was actually over 30 when she made the movie]].

** Creator/SissySpacek was widely thought to be too pretty for the title role, the character in the book being described as chunky, mousy-haired and covered in pimples with Spacek being a thin strawberry blonde with clear skin. Even the director thought that Spacek was too pretty to play Carrie and tried to discourage her. For the audition, Spacek combed Vaseline into her hair to make it lank and oily and wore an old, dowdy dress she'd had since middle school in order to prove she could be sufficiently unattractive. And of course her Oscar nomination speaks for itself.

** ''Film/{{Zapped}}'' is ''Carrie'' PlayedForLaughs, with telekinetic powers transferred to Scott Baio through [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning]].

* CareerResurrection: Creator/PiperLaurie had retired from the movie business after ''Film/TheHustler'' when the script came her way. She initially didn't understand the script at all, thinking it rather clichéd, until her husband pointed out that Creator/BrianDePalma usually took a comedic approach to his work. When she reread the screenplay with that viewpoint, the part of Margaret White made a lot more sense to Laurie. The subsequent Oscar nomination for playing Margaret relaunched her career.

** More split screen effects were filmed for the 1976 version. WordOfGod is that they turned out badly and only the few that looked good were used in the movie.

* BabyNameTrendKiller: In the early '70s, "Carrie" was a fairly common name for baby girls that was rapidly rising in popularity, but it [[https://www.behindthename.com/name/carrie/top collapsed just as quickly]] after the film [[PersonAsVerb made it a shorthand]] for somebody (especially a woman) violently snapping after hitting her RageBreakingPoint.

* BabyNameTrendStarter: Inverted. In the early '70s, "Carrie" was a fairly common name for baby girls that was rapidly rising in popularity, but it [[https://www.behindthename.com/name/carrie/top collapsed just as quickly]] after the film [[PersonAsVerb made it a shorthand]] for somebody (especially a woman) violently snapping after hitting her RageBreakingPoint.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: With its epic SeventiesHair, teen heartthrob Creator/JohnTravolta, the opening scene being utterly awash in naked flesh, and a soundtrack by Music/PinoDonaggio that combines PsychoStrings with funkadelic '70s cues. The prom is given a disco theme, with ruffles on most of the characters. And that's not even getting into its portrayal of teen bullying.

* SeredipityWritesThePlot: The original plan was to have Carrie burn down the entire town like in the book. However, this proved far too expensive to film. This is [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools probably for the better,]] as it makes Carrie more sympathetic.

** The production of the original film experienced a literal example of SpecialEffectFailure, detailed in the [[DVDBonusContent special features]] on the DVD. The finale was supposed to involve Carrie calling down a meteor shower on her house, destroying it. Indeed, the interior scenes, showing the rocks coming through the ceiling, had already been shot. However, when they shot the exterior of the house burning down, the rig that was supposed to drop the stones malfunctioned. The production didn't have enough money left to redo the shot, so they simply filmed it sans meteors.

** The film was cast in a joint session with the casting of ''Film/ANewHope'', which creates some ''very'' interesting casting possibilities. Allegedly, Creator/CarrieFisher was originally auditioning for Carrie White before she was cast as Princess Leia. Speculation is that Carrie Fisher objected to the nude scenes in Carrie, while Sissy Spacek didn't, so Carrie Fisher got to be in ''Star Wars'' while Sissy Spacek got to be in Carrie. Fisher later {{Jossed}} these rumours, saying she would have had no problem with the nudity.

** Margaret says of Carrie's dress "I might have known it would be red". In the book the dress actually is red and it was going to be in the film, but they decided pink looked better on Sissy Spacek and forgot to change the line.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: With its epic SeventiesHair, teen heartthrob Creator/JohnTravolta, the opening scene being utterly awash in naked flesh, and a soundtrack by Pino Donaggio that combines PsychoStrings with funkadelic '70s cues. The prom is given a disco theme, with ruffles on most of the characters. And that's not even getting into its portrayal of teen bullying.

** The most {{JustForFun/egregious}} example is possibly the 1978 film ''Film{{Jennifer}}'', which is basically ''Carrie'' '''[[RecycledINSPACE with snakes!]]''' Lampshaded by WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob when he reviewed both ''Carrie'' and ''Jennifer'' on the same video.

** The most {{JustForFun/egregious}} example is possibly the 1978 film ''Jennifer'', which is basically ''Carrie'' '''[[RecycledINSPACE with snakes!]]''' Lampshaded by WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob when he reviewed both ''Carrie'' and ''Jennifer'' on the same video.

* ProductionPosse: Creator/BrianDePalma, Creator/JohnTravolta, and Creator/NancyAllen reunited five years later for the film ''Film/BlowOut''.

** Music/BernardHerrmann was the first choice to score the film but died during production. Pino Donaggio, who'd contributed a memorable score to ''Film/DontLookNow'', replaced him.