In 'Carrie' (1976), a socially ostracized high school girl, Carrie White, discovers she has telekinetic abilities. After enduring relentless bullying and an abusive, religiously fanatical mother, Carrie uses her powers to exact revenge at her high school prom in a torrent of blood and destruction.
De Palma films Stephen King's prom and the gym teacher's blood and a mother who taught her daughter shame. The final shot in the cemetery is the film: rage outlives the rage.
De Palma's *Carrie* crystallizes the slasher template through its fusion of supernatural revenge and high school cruelty, establishing the teenage girl as horror's most potent vessel for both victimhood and retribution—a dynamic that continues defining the genre's moral architecture decades later. The film's split-screen prom sequence transforms intimate humiliation into apocalyptic violence, creating the visual and thematic language that countless horror films have since inherited.
Bullied girl uses telekinetic powers for bloody revenge.
