Fear Flashbacks! – getting ready for the 50th anniversary of Brian De Palma’s CARRIE

Imagine, if you can, a time when Stephen King only had one novel. No nightmarish clowns. No murderous self-driving cars. No Captain Trips. Just a simple novel about a bullied teen girl and her telekinetic revenge.

“Carrie” was originally released by Doubleday in the spring of 1974. It became a breakout hit and set King on his path to fame and fortune. He initially celebrated by buying his wife, Tabitha, a hair dryer, which has to be one of the dearest little stories the horror author has ever shared.

The novel’s rights were eventually snapped up by United Artists, with the film adaptation directed by Brian De Palma, who had recently scrambled many a moviegoer’s brain with PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974).

Today we have a neat little ad from an L.A.-area television showing back around 1987. Fifty years on, the Oscar-nominated film continues to influence the horror genre, and was even selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry.

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