Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
ChicRawIdol
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Edwin
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Cujo108
Middling TV movie about a slightly chubby teen (Susan Myers) who is constantly teased by her sister and classmates. Even her own father treats her like garbage. She begins getting even when she is taught how to be a witch by her gym teacher. Her sympathetic mother (Lee Grant) does not approve.This was obviously inspired by 'Carrie', though this one under-develops the high school turmoil in favor of the girl's miserable family life. There is nary a likable character present here. In fact, I haven't disliked characters this much since Mario Azzopardi's 'Deadline', a film where I literally wanted to jump on screen and strangle the wife with my bare hands. The girl's father is a dick, plain and simple. I was hoping for his gruesome demise the entire time. Her sister (played by a young Helen Hunt) isn't much better. I hated these people so much that I was longing for the film to focus more on the school as opposed to the family. I did like Lelia Goldoni as the gym teacher, but she has about three scenes total.Characters aside, there are a few good moments. The opening with the popular girl pulling off circus style tricks on the gym rope was fun. We also get a bizarre death scene where a woman's skin starts smoldering, and the confrontation between student and teacher is well done.Really though, this film is far from special. Along with what's already been mentioned, we also have to deal with one of those horrid TV scores and there's a twist at the end that's pretty weak. The characters, though, are what make it a real struggle to get through.
Jacqui
This movie is available on Hulu, just fyi :) Okay, so apparently my comment must be at least 10 lines long. So, here's what I thought about the movie. At the beginning, I did feel it was a rip-off of Carrie, but the more I watched, the less similarities there were. As cheesy as most 70s movies are, I thought the acting was good. It had a real eeriness to it. What I hated was that this girl, Rita, was considered fat. It's one thing for stupid kids at school to call her fat, I was smaller than her in school & still got called fat from time to time, but for her father to do so was cruel. She was not fat. I'd love to see what she looks like now, if anyone has a link, I haven't searched it yet. Okay, I think I reached my 10-line minimum. The whole point of my comment was to let people know the movie is available on hulu...that is all :)
michman5614
I have to admit that I saw this film went I was pretty young. But that doesn;t really matter I saw the Omen at the time as well and i still like it as an adult.. I completely disagree with the review of the above poster. I don't think it's a Carrie rip off and The reason the 15 year old girl had these psychic powers was because it ran in the family. It was a family secret. It was one that her mother wanted to pretend didn't exist because it scared her too much especially because she knew her sister was Evil and wanted to use her own powers for evil things. The 15 year old girl in the film knew none of this. She only knew that went she was teased to the extent that she was by mean kids.. Things would happen to them. There were one or two example of this in the movie. Nothing major.. One got hurt and the other bully may have died from a freak accident. It wasn't excessive to say the least like the post above mine had said.. In fact there weren't masses of people dieing anywhere like he said.. The conflict and the final battle was contained within the immediate family. The above Poster clearly got his facts mixed up especially about the girl practicing the Occult. She did not and they never said she did in the movie... It was her Evil Aunt that did.. The girl did not know anything more than it seemed like she was causing her bully's to get hurt when she willed it and told her mother who knew everything but wanted to dust the facts of these powers under the rug ..The mother struggled with this through the film.. It was a very very good film.. There was a lot of cool things happening in it that I didn't want to give away here. ..I highly recommend this to anyone that likes truly scary and suspenseful films of the 70's .. I don't know where to get a copy for myself so if anyone know please e-mail me at..
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ms-hope
For this movie to be a made for television movie, it was definitely one of those you can't forget. I saw this movie when I was around 10 or 11 and here I am now 33 and have been searching for years to purchase it. I can remember every detail about this movie. The girl on this movie make CARRIE look like a goodie two shoes. (Smile) This is definitely one to add to the horror collection.
