Showing posts with label Carrie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carrie. Show all posts

24 June 2022

Nancy Allen

 Nancy Allen was born on June 24th, 1950 The Bronx, NY.  

Nancy Anne Allen

Carrie (1976) with John Travolta and P.J. Soles
Starring Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving
Priscilla Pointer and Edie McClurg

1941 (1979)

Dressed to Kill (1980)

Blow out (1981)
with John Travolta and John Lithgow

Strange Invaders (1983)

Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop (1987)

Poltergeist III (1988)


25 April 2022

Emily Bergl

 Emily Bergl was born on April 25th, 1975 in Buckinghamshire, England.

Emily Bergl 

The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) directed by Katt Shea
with Amy Irving 


12 March 2022

The Rage: Carrie 2

 The Rage: Carrie 2 premiered in US theaters on March 12th,1999. 

A sequel to Brian De Palma’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel Carrie (1976). 

The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)

Directed by Katt Shea and starring Emily Bergl and Jason London. Amy Irving is the only returning cast member from the original, although they did use some scenes of Sissy Spacek in the form of flashbacks. 

25 December 2021

Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek was born on December 25th, 1949 in Quitman, Texas. 

Sissy Spacek

She originally aspired to be a recording artist and in 1968, at age 18, recorded a diss track to John Lennon under the name Rainbo. The single didn’t perform well and she was dropped by her label. 


She went on to prove herself later as a talented singer by doing all of her own singing as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter.

Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

After being dropped by her label Sissy enrolled in theater school in New York City and began hanging out with the Warhol crowd. Her first acting role was as an extra in Warhol’s Women In Revolt (1971) with Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn.

Prime Cut (1972)

Terrence Malick’s Badlands (1973)
with Martin Sheen and 
John Carter

Carrie (1976)
with Nancy AllenP.J. Soles, Priscilla Pointer,
Amy Irving and Edie McClurg

The voice of the brain in
The Man With Two Brains (1983)

Rip Torn and Sissy Spacek are cousins 


03 November 2021

Carrie (1976)

 On November 3rd, 1976, Carrie saw a limited release in 

Baltimore / Washington, D.C. 

It took over the rest of the country over the next couple weeks. 

Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, William Katt, P.J. Soles and John Travolta. Based on Stephen King’s first published novel.

Piper Laurie and Sissy Spacek

Allen and Travolta would work with
De Palma again in Blow Out (1981)

William Katt and Sissy Spacek

P.J. soles and Nancy Allen

Amy Irving as Sue Snell and real life mother
Priscilla Pointer as Mrs. Snell

Edie McClurg

Carrie would spawn two remakes (one theatrical and one made for TV), one sequel and a disastrous flop of a Broadway musical. 

Angela Bettis in Carrie (2002)

Chloe Grace Moretz (2013)


Emily Bergl in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
Directed by Katt Shea



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