Keep Calm and Carrie On.

Carrie White breaks my heart every single time. I wish just once she'd get to enjoy her prom.

There's no such luck for her in the 2013 remake of course.

Indeed nothing much has changed from the 1976 version other than the fashions and the protagonist looking younger and prettier. There are mobile phones and some nods to cyber bullying but this update doesn't really have any desire to do anything new with the material. There's still a wealth of material to be mined from Stephen King's book if you know it well.  Post Columbine we know what real teen rage looks like. We know all too well how religious zeal and high school pressures make monsters out of good people. I can barely imagine what demons of teen angst the children of the internet age have to fight. It would have been interesting to allude to some of that a bit more. 'Carrie' could also have been a real powerhouse 'found footage' movie. But this version just tells the story again. Shot for shot in some places. I'm fine with that. It is a good story and each generation deserves an update for the kids who would otherwise just laugh at the funny fashions in the Brian DePalma version.

But next time Hollywood, let me remake it and/or let Carrie go to the ball and enjoy it.