More Than Pretty Victims.
"There's a reason Carrie has endured for decades. Whether it's Stephen King's original 1974 novel, Brian De Palma's screen adaptation, or any other version – including the one currently in theaters from director Kimberly Peirce – the saga of Carrie White perseveres because most of us have either been Carrie White or have known a Carrie White, and we can relate to the story of an underdog exacting revenge on bullies.
It gets a little more interesting, however, because it's a tale of horror and the underdog protagonist is a woman. For decades, horror films were traditionally, seemingly one-stop schlock offerings for every kind of violence against women. Sure, some of them got out alive – the trope of the "Final Girl" doesn't exist by accident – but it's generally understood that some of the gravest and most gruesome things ever to happen to women onscreen happened in horror flicks.
There were exceptions like Alien, which subverted the horror trope of sexualized violence against woman into a story of male sexual horror. Carrie, too, was something very, very different from the traditional horror films where sexy girls got stabbed with knives; instead, we met the meek daughter of a religious fanatic who exacted revenge on high school bullies who mocked her when she got her period. In this sense, Carrie (the character and the story) is something of a feminist icon – and it's intentional. "Carrie is largely about how women find their own channels of power, but also what men fear about women and women's sexuality," King wrote in Danse Macabre. "The book is, in its more adult implications, an uneasy masculine shrinking from a future of female equality." In other words, the scares in Carrie are derived from a fear of strong women
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