Screams in the Dark: Carrie (1976)
The Monologue (Val’s Voice) The world around me was rubble. Smoke clung to the air, stinging my eyes, while glass crunched under my boots with every trembling step. The fight between those two creatures—my friend, and the monster the Clerk had become—had torn my apartment into something unrecognizable. Walls split open. The floor sagged. The smell of burning wires filled the air. I couldn’t stop shaking. I had seen the Storyteller morph back into himself, broken and gasping, and Nyra lying hurt beside him. Only Kaelen and I still stood ready to fight. I looked at the twisted shadows cast by the flickering fires and thought: if this is what two of them could do, what chance did we ever have? --- Movie Review: Carrie (1976) Brian De Palma’s Carrie, based on Stephen King’s first published novel, is one of the most iconic horror films of the 1970s. It’s a story soaked in trauma, rage, and repression—culminating in one of cinema’s most unforgettable finales. Sissy Spacek’s portr...