Carrie (1976)

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy are breaking down the 1976 Brian De Palma film, Carrie, starring Sissy Spacek. The two dig into the Stephen King of it all, bad moms, the trauma of menstruation, and to Amy’s dismay Paul reveals that he does NOT love this film. Next week, Paul and Amy will take a look at the 80's kids classic, The Goonies! Check out this week's spotlight episode from the Unspooled archives, Psycho, here: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/psycho/ You can join the conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 and check out Paul's Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is on presale now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1976.
0:03.0	And they're all going to laugh at your podcast.
0:05.0	They're all going to laugh of your podcast.
0:07.0	They're all going to laugh at your podcast.
0:09.0	The movie, Carrie. carrying. Hello everyone and welcome to Unspoed.
0:36.7	I am Paul Shear joined as always by my co-host
0:39.8	the great Amy Nicholson.
0:41.9	Amy, I am so happy that you are highlighting some of your amazing reviews that you were writing
0:48.1	recently.
0:49.1	I've been checking out your Instagram account, your review of challengers.
0:52.1	It was great and it actually calls back to, call me by your name,
0:56.2	and you know, if you're not reading Amy, just subscribe, get on board, get with her her get into it.
1:03.2	Oh thank you I read that one for the LA Times I love right in for those people over there.
1:07.1	I will say there was a line in the challenges of you that when I thought of it it made me
1:10.0	really laugh out loud and I was very excited to write it down. I love it and I know what it is. So today we are talking about
1:17.2	Carrie, a movie that you could argue redefined horror for generations.
1:25.0	Yes, yes, we are going to talk about a movie that to me hits me like a like a potato
1:31.0	peeler right to the heart. I mean I feel like I have just been a Carrie girl my entire life.
1:37.6	I've even been to a pancake breakfast where the pancakes were like a stack of pancakes with a
1:41.2	Carrie statue in the middle of it covered in strawberry syrup.
1:44.4	That's where Carrie is in my heart and in my stomach.
1:47.1	Well, I do want to talk about really the center of this movie, which is Sissy's Basic. I mean she is
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