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    Why Do We Keep Remaking Carrie?

    Why does Hollywood keep remaking Carrie? Is it that good a story? I understand the appeal. It’s simple in concept and appeals to base emotions. We all want to have superpowers. We all want to exact revenge on certain people in our lives. We all feel suppressed by “the rules” whether that’s government or religion, they always seem to have the same ridiculousness and irrelevance. But do we need four movies to tell us that (five if you count “Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver”, but let’s not talk about that). There’s the original Sissy Spacek version (1976), “The Rage: Carrie 2” (1999) which I loved, but is really the same basic story, “Carrie” the…