Julianne Moore: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

2. Margaret White €“ Carrie

Going into last year's remake of Carrie, nobody expected it to equal Brian De Palma's 1976 seminal work, and yet with the expectations so low came the capacity to surprise. Kimberly Pierce, the director of this reboot, works hard to break away from De Palma's version and the result is a fairly good adaptation of the novel. Yet long before the blood starts spilling in this R-rated horror, the film is already truly scary, and that's down to one person Going into last year's remake of Carrie, nobody expected it to equal Brian De Palma's 1976 seminal work, or even surpass it, and yet in the hearts of many Stephen King fans it did Julianne Moore as Carrie's mother, Margaret White. Unbelievably, Moore's version of Mrs. White gives Piper Laurie's "definitive" version of the character a run for its money, doing away with the screeching harpy elements that Laurie worked into the role in favour of something altogether more chilling. Moore instead brings a quiet malice to the film, manipulating her daughter and everyone around her and creating a seemingly happy environment on the outside that is really just a prison for Carrie. Mrs. White in this film feels like a real person who truly believes the things she says with a steely-eyed resolve, whereas in the original it feels just a little fake. Moore works hard to create a mentally ill woman who has tricked herself into buying her own lies.