‘Carrie’ Review Call Movie ‘Flat, Uninspired’ And ‘More Of A Mutant Movie Than A Horror Masterpiece’

The remake of "Carrie" starring Chloe Grace Moretz is finally out. The jury makes the verdict and it doesn't look good.

This is the fourth Carrie movie. There was a lesser known sequel and a TV adaptation that's forgettable for a reason.

That's why there was a question of why it had to be made. Why do we need another Carrie movie? Director Kimberly Pearce wanted it to be sympathetic to women, or have a woman's voice-polar opposite from Brian De Palma's classic. A movie that will allow them to cast someone even younger than Carrie in the book's age since there wouldn't be any nudity and less gore.

But the review still saw the "feminization" in a positive light. From The Vulture: "A female gaze - and the ideas she explored in Boys Don't Cry about gender and female self-image made it likely she'd at least bring something new to the party."

The intentions and the potential was there but it failed: "Based on the finished movie, though, I'm wondering if she had any say in what finally hit the screen. The new Carrie isn't atrocious - just flat and uninspired and compromised by the kind of mindless teen-movie "humanism" that De Palma so punkishly spat on."

The review cites that the movie has lost the horror element and presented Carrie's power as something that she can eventually control: "What's lost is the primal, inexplicable, truly demonic power. As the stunted Carrie, Moretz has a heart-shaped face - she's all cheekbones and pillowy lips and is more conventionally attractive than the pale, freckled, otherworldly Spacek. A higher percentage of the target demographic will relate to her better. To convey Carrie's alienation, Moretz hunches her shoulders and tilts her head down so that her hair hangs in her face. She's like Ally Sheedy from The Breakfast Club in desperate need of a scholarship to Professor Xavier's school for mutants."

There have already been observations that Chloe Moretz was too attractive to play an outcast. It seems like they were right. The other problem is that they failed to depict the loss of humanity and being completely consumed by evil. These are the factors that make horror scary, and it's totally absent from the movie.

Perhaps it was the need to differentiate itself from the original. But in doing so, it seemed like a prequel of "X-Men" at Jean Grey's prom (if she was old enough to make it to prom before Professor X takes her away).