Comparing Carrie (1976) to Carrie (2013)

I enjoyed watching both versions of Carrie's although I feel like the newer 2013 version had a better prom scene than the first one and there was a lot more blood used which is a typical element of horror. In the 1976 version of Carrie whilst the prom scene occurs, the whole scene changes to red.  The colour red is used to connote blood and danger and shows her vengeful actions against the people who bullied her, it makes it seem as though Carrie is literally 'seeing red' which is an expression used when a person is really angry. The split screen used in this version was done to show what she's doing to the others and also to show her facial reactions. It's clear to tell that by her eyes she is able to make stuff happen and also hand movements which is similar to the 2013 version. The voice over kept saying 'They're all gonna laugh at you' which were her mothers words and they were constantly repeated during the prom scene. This was effective in seeing the affect those words had on Carrie. The words made her more angry and made her want revenge. In Carrie (1976), her mother has told her "first comes the blood, then comes the sin" so at the prom scene when the blood fell on Carrie, it reiterated what her mother had been saying all along and made Carrie seem as though she was sinful. The sinfulness of the blood being poured on her led her to commit more sins by killing all the students who bullied her.

In the 2013 version of the prom version, blood was used to show all the deaths that occurred. Instead of a voice over of her mothers words in Carrie (2013), the video of the shower scene was used to remind Carrie of the torment her classmates put her through and that made her be vengeful towards them. The psycho strings were used in Carrie (1976) in the first shower scene when Carrie made the light blow out. This references Psycho (1960) as that sound is associated with the horror genre since the film Psycho came out. In both Carrie versions, a red car is used by Chris and her boyfriend when trying to escape. The colour red is the colour of blood and is associated with rage, anger and danger. Both Carrie's destroy the red cars that Billy drives which shows her anger being taken out on Chris and Billy. It also shows how danger may be coming towards Chris and Billy too. 

The image below shows the deaths of the mothers both caused by Carrie. The mothers arms are sprawled out and it looks to represent the cross and has connotations of religion, it was an imitation of the crucifixion of Jesus. The hands are pinned down by scissors which is like how Jesus was pinned down with the nails on his hands on the cross. The puppet on the right was seen in the beginning and the ending of the film. The puppet foreshadowed the mothers death as the arrows in the puppet are placed where the objects hit Carrie's mother. The puppet then reappears after Carrie has killed her mother which is significant in showing the similarities between them and showing how Margaret is literally like a puppet and dead. In both versions of Carrie, the mother's are wearing white, the colour white connotes innocence which the mother's were both trying to be as they didn't want to be sinful and were both very religious. Their innocence is tainted by the blood stains on their clothes.