78 minutes ago Carrie review – Brian De Palma’s horror masterpiece is a death metal spectacle of carnage

Sissy Spacek unforgettably evolves from ugly duckling to swan to something else entirely in the groundbreaking film adaptation of Stephen King’s novelBrian De Palma’s insouciantly horrible masterpiece from 1976, adapted from the novel by Stephen King, and mixing in tropes and tricks from Hitchcock’s Psycho, is now rereleased. This is the extraordinary exploitation shocker that also conveyed – or anyway fabricated – an impassioned sympathy for a bullied teenage girl with learning disabilities and telekinetic powers. It was a horror classic that didn’t conform to the narrative beats of the genre; it was a scary movie in which the terrifying demon was also the final girl.Sissy Spacek gives an amazing performance as Carrie, a shy high school student and put-upon daughter of Margaret (Piper ...

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19 hours ago M6 crash driver 'went wrong way' down motorway in horror smash that killed two kids

A man driving a car in the M6 crash that killed five people, including two children, was reportedly on the wrong side of the motorway when the horror smash happened

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19 hours ago Car heading in wrong direction on M6 before crash which left five dead, say police

Two children died in the crash which happened on the motorway near the Tebay services in Cumbria

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20 hours ago M6 crash: 'Car drove wrong way down motorway' before horror collision killed five including two kids

A 40-year-old man from Cambridgeshire was reportedly travelling on the wrong side of the M6 in Cumbria when he was involved in a crash in which he died, along with four others including two children

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20 hours ago Car was heading in wrong direction before M6 crash which killed two children and two adults from Glasgow

Two children and two adults from Glasgow were killed in the crash

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21 hours ago Five people died in M6 horror crash after car 'travelled the wrong way down the motorway'

Officers were called to the incident at 4:04pm yesterday following a report of a Skoda travelling Southbound on the Northbound carriageway, Cumbria.

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21 hours ago Scots boys, 7, and 15, killed in M6 crash as cops probe car 'driving wrong way'

A 42-year-old man, a 33-year-old woman and two boys aged 15 and seven - all from Glasgow - were pronounced dead following the crash.

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25 hours ago Barking Road crash: Teenage girl killed by car in horror east London smash as driver arrested

Shocking footage shows a group trying to flip a crushed car following the crash

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27 hours ago Girl, 18, killed after car hits her on busy London street as police question driver, 45, on suspicion of dangerous driving

The 18-year-old was crossing the road in Plaistow when an out of control Nissan Juke came hurtling down Barking Road yesterday afternoon.

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