Who is the real villain in Carrie?

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American author Stephen King in his first published horror novel, Carrie (1974), where she is the main antagonist.
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Is Carrie the villain in Carrie?

Both girls were bullied very much and one of them, like Carrie, had a fanatically religious mother. Carrie is the main anti-villain of her titular story. She is the tortured soul turned murderous villain whom the third party can root for with guilty pleasure.
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Who is the monster in Carrie?

I think it's easy to say that Carrie's overly protective, religiously zealous mother was the monster. If we are being fair to Carrie and saying that she becomes a monster because of her mother and the bullies, then Carrie's mother becomes the monster she is because of the man who used her and left her with a child.
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Is Carrie White a monster?

The audience never sees her as a monster. When it comes to Carrie White, we see ourselves. It's no wonder that Carrie keeps resurfacing again and again, having had three movie adaptations, one sequel, a musical, and several parodies. Carrie White is someone the audience can't help but feel empathy for.
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Is Carrie a demon?

Carrie is a demon in the series.
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Is Carrie a mutant?

Like Jean Grey, Carrie White is a telekinetic mutant who discovers her powers at puberty.
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Why does Carrie's mom hurt herself 2013?

Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. She locks her in the closet and orders her to pray for "forgiveness" when she learns about the shower incident, because she said it was a "curse" for Eve's disobedience offering Adam the fruit and creating the original sin.
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How did Carrie get her powers?

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
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Is Carrie based on a true story?

Nearly every novel Stephen King writes takes inspiration from his life. In Carrie, the titular character was inspired by two women he once knew. A great many stories from prolific horror author, Stephen King, are based on real-life occurrences he's experienced as well as people whom he has known personally.
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Who has the power in Carrie?

In Stephen King's novel and the film adaptations, Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek, left, in the 1976 version) is the one with the supernatural powers, but for NPR's Elizabeth Blair, Carrie's mother Margaret (Piper Laurie) was the truly scary character.
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Is Sue pregnant in Carrie?

When she is entreating Sue to leave her crumbling home, Carrie recognizes Sue is pregnant, carrying Tommy's child. "It's a girl," she tells Sue before flinging her to safety. Sue is also pregnant in the novel, but after Carrie's death, she discovers blood on herself, and knows she has miscarried.
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Did Carrie have the shine?

In the Stephen King universe, that means Carrie White has the shining. It doesn't stop there, however. From 1978's The Stand to 2019's The Institute, many characters can shine. Not all of them can shine at the same level as Danny Torrance, but still, for a lot of them, it becomes a powerful and dangerous ability.
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Why does Carrie get covered in blood?

The blood was a sticky situation.

In the memorable prom scene, Carrie's enemies dump a bucket of "pig's blood" over her head. The substance was actually Karo syrup and food coloring, which would get stuck on her skin because of the hot lights, according to IMDb.
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Who survived Carrie?

Sue Snell, Miss Desjarden, Jackie Talbot, Norma Watson, Ruth Gogan and 7 others were the only survivors. Even Carrie White was a survivor as well.
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How does the original Carrie end?

However, the ending was drastically changed: instead of killing her mother and then herself, the film has Carrie killing her mother, being revived via CPR by Sue Snell and being driven to Florida to hide.
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What is the story behind Carrie?

The story of misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Repressed by a domineering, ultra-religious mother and tormented by her peers at school, her efforts to fit in lead to a dramatic confrontation during the senior prom.
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Is Carrie supernatural?

Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by Kimberly Peirce. It is the third film adaptation and a remake to the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name and the fourth film in the Carrie franchise.
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What happened to Carrie after the prom?

Tragically, when a so-called "prank" at her Senior Prom involving, pig's blood pushed her to her breaking point and beyond her limits, Carrie finally snapped, lost her sanity and used the wild talents she possessed to seek her hostile revenge to make her bullies and enemies pay and suffer for their cruel actions.
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Is Carrie's mom crazy?

Once you meet Carrie's Momma, all of Carrie's crazy is immediately explained. Margaret White has no friends and no husband (he died in a construction accident… we don't think telekinesis was involved, but how can you ever be sure?). She hurts herself when she gets angry.
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Who was Carrie's dad?

Ralph White (October 23, 1930 - February 1963) is a character in Carrie (Novel) and an unseen character in Carrie (1976), The Rage: Carrie 2 and Carrie (2013). He is the father of Carrie White and Rachel Lang and the husband of Margaret White.
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Is Carrie White autistic?

She wore plain white cotton underpants and a heavy cotton white bra. One of her pairs were spotted with blood when one of her pads began to wilt. She cried a lot which made her eyes red and socketed from weeping. It is implied she is autistic as when the fire whistle went off she covered her ears and screamed.
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Why did Carrie's house collapse?

So even, if Carrie escaped from her mother's claws, she wouldn't be able to run from the police for too long. Having said that, Carrie decided to leave the world with her mother. The girl “broke down the house” with her telekinetic powers and the fire came from the candles that her mother lit before she arrived home.
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