Stephen King's first novel Carrie was made into a movie and released November 16, 1976. (It had a limited release on November 3.) Sissy Spacek played Carrie White, a shy, unpopular high school student who is constantly bullied by her classmates. When she has her first period, she panics but then realizes she has developed telekinesis.
In an act of cruelty, two of her classmates conspire to humiliate her at the prom, but things don't go quite as well as they planned.
Spacek received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and Piper Laurie, who played her mother, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Carrie is one of very few horror films to be nominated for more than one Academy Award nomination. It was named one of the best movies of the year and grossed over $33.8M. It is ranked as No. 46 of the American Film Institute's list of 100 Greatest Cinema Thrills. The climax at the prom is ranked as 8th on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
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