Sissy Spacek holding flowers and smiling as prom queen in Carrie
The Big Picture Stephen King is one of America's most prolific writers, having written dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories. It all started, however, fifty years ago, in 1974, with his first novel, Carrie. Published when he was just 27 years old, Carrie is filled with the tropes King would be known for, with its protagonist being a younger person coming of age while being surrounded by unspeakable horrors.
Director Brian De Palma Cast Sissy Spacek , Piper Laurie Writers Stephen King Runtime 100 Stephen King's Experience as a Janitor Inspired a 'Carrie' Scene Stephen King has written so many nightmarish tales over the last half century, but many of them find their original spark in his everyday life. For example, part of the inspiration for It came from sharing a plane ride with a man dressed as Ronald McDonald.
"And the other girls – grossed out, horrified, amused – start pelting her with sanitary napkins … The girl begins to scream. All that blood!" Stephen King Began To Connect the Dots for 'Carrie' After Reading About Telekinesis Close This being Stephen King, the story couldn't end there. Something supernatural that turned the horror all the way up had to be thrown in. King found further inspiration when he recalled a LIFE magazine article he'd read years earlier about telekinesis. The writer of the article had theorized that what some people claim to be poltergeist activity is instead a telekinetic phenomenon.
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