25 Incredibly Well-Made Horror Films Directed By Women

3. Kimberly Peirce - Carrie (2013)

The third adaptation of Stephen King€™s 1974 novel once again follows the titular Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy and awkward teenage girl who is routinely bullied and ostracised by classmates. Sheltered by her overbearing, and extremely religious, mother Margaret (Julianne Moore), Carrie longs for the €œnormal life€ of the other kids at Thomas Ewen Consolidated High School. But Carrie isn€™t normal, and after discovering that she possesses telekinetic powers, she begins to develop a new-found confidence that causes tension between her and a popular clique of girls. Pigs blood, prom, laughing, revenge, and telekinetic mayhem ensue. Although it doesn't threaten the supremacy of Brian De Palma's 1976 classic, Kimberly Peirce's remake manages an intermittently effective retelling. For viewers who are open to it, the assembled cast and crew manage to accomplish their goal of updating the still timely Carrie storyline with a more intense (and gory) retelling of events for the contemporary movie market. And while it might not have been necessary, this modernised Carrie is still an adept, entertaining, and at times downright haunting, piece of filmmaking.