Movies Of My Life # 33: Carrie

An occasional series here at Off The Tracks celebrating the movies that I love and have thought about most often throughout my life.

To be clear, from the outset, I mean Carrie — the 1976 Brian de Palma film; not the 2002 TV movie, the stage musical, nor the 2013 redundant reboot attempt.

And I love Carrie and consider it one of the movies of my life for many reasons. First of all, I’m a Stephen King fan, and the book was one of the first of his I read, and in that initial burst of f…