Carrie

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(DOG BARKING)

(MARGARET SCREAMS)

(PANTS)

Help.

Help me!

(SCREAMS)

(PANTING)

(INDISTINCT MUMBLING)

(PANTING)

(SCREAMING)

Help me, Lord.

I'm dying.

What is this?

Cancer?

(GROANING)

(SCREAMING)

Mother Mary, full of grace, protect me

and guide me in my hour of death.

(SCREAMS)

(GASPING)

(GASPS)

(GURGLES)

(COOING)

It's a test.

Cut it down.

Cut it down.

(COOING)

(CRYING)

Shh.

(CRYING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(GIRLS LAUGHING)

(LAUGHS)

DESJARDIN:
Sue Snell

and Tommy Ross, come on.

(GASPS)

(BLOWS WHISTLE)

Let's go, ladies!

In the water! Caps on, please!

Chris and Sue, let's go!

(GIRL GRUNTS)

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

DESJARDIN:
I want you to keep it

in the air three times. All right?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

CHRIS:
We are graduating, Ms. Desjardin.

Yeah, Sue!

(ALL CHEERING)

Get that.

Don't be afraid of the ball, ladies.

All right, here we go.

(WHISTLE BLOWING)

All right, Carrie White.

Let's get Carrie into the game.

You can't stand

on the sidelines all the time. Come on.

GIRL:
Whoo!

Carrie's serve.

CHRIS:
Yeah, Carrie White!

Do it, Carrie! Yeah, yeah.

Throw it. Do it. Serve it.

Oh. Ow.

(GASPS)

(BOTH GASP)

(ALL LAUGHING)

What the hell?

(LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY)

It's so funny, Chris.

CHRIS:
- Are you okay?

- Yeah.

(LAUGHING)

CHRIS:
Oh, my God.

(CHUCKLES)

You eat sh*t.

(ALL LAUGHING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

SUE:
No, he didn't.

CHRIS:
Yes, he did.

No, he didn't. You're making it up.

He came up to me and I said,

"Well, you have to extend your hand... "

Now you're lying.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(SQUEAKING)

(PANTS)

(BREATH TREMBLING)

Help! Help! Help me!

Help me.

- Get off me, you freak!

- Please.

Oh, my God. Look what you did to my shirt.

Please!

Stop! Stop! Settle down.

I think I'm bleeding to death. Please.

Oh, my God. It's period blood.

I'm bleeding. I think I'm dying.

What? Oh, my God.

Please help me!

It's just your period.

Just plug it up.

- Help me!

- Oh, God!

Oh! She got you.

(SOBBING) Help me!

God, just plug it up!

Help!

ALL:
(CHANTING) Plug it up!

I'm sorry. No!

(CHANTING CONTINUES)

No!

ALL:
Plug it up!

(SCREAMING)

(WHIMPERING)

(CHANTING CONTINUES)

(WHIMPERING)

DESJARDIN:
Girls, come on! Move!

Ladies.

- Oh, my God. Okay. All right.

- Help me.

Okay, honey, stand up.

Let's get you cleaned up.

Help me, help me.

Oh, Carrie, come on.

DESJARDIN:
Stand up.

Come on, can you stand up?

CARRIE:
It hurts! It hurts!

It hurts! Something's not right.

Something's not right.

Okay, okay. What are you talking about?

Ms. Desjardin,

I don't think she knows it's her period.

No!

All right, Sue.

Get out of here! You're not helping.

- No! No!

- Calm down!

(ALL GASP)

Everyone get out! Now! Out!

Okay, deep breaths. Come here.

Come on. It's okay. You're okay, sweetie.

It's totally normal.

Shh.

Do you know what it means?

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)

(SCREAMS)

Okay, sweetie.

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

Are you, uh, feeling better?

Can I get you some aspirin?

Some juice or something?

(GASPS)

DESJARDIN:
Juice? Really, Henry?

MORTON:
Maybe you just

want us to leave you alone.

Carrie, honey,

I am so sorry that I slapped you.

I should have handled it better.

It's totally normal

for young girls to get their periods.

It usually actually happens

a little bit earlier.

Is this your first time?

(SIGHS)

Honey, do you understand

what's happening to your body?

Do you know what it means?

CARRIE:
What?

I don't know.

I felt something moving down there.

DESJARDIN:
- Oh, honey.

- Whoa!

Maybe you could, uh,

talk to a counselor about that

or a nurse.

Um, what I need to know

is who started throwing...

...things.

It was Chris Hargensen

and all of her friends.

- Cassie...

- "Carrie. "

Carrie, did Chris Hargensen start this?

Honey, you don't have to protect them.

What they did was unforgiveable.

Okay, uh...

It doesn't seem that Carrie

is going to point the finger,

so Ms. Desjardin,

I need you to get to the bottom of this.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Okay.

Carrie, you're excused

from P.E. class for the rest of the week.

Just take study hall, okay? At the library.

MORTON:
Yeah. We're going

to have to call your mom.

What?

We're going to have to

call your mother, Carrie.

I know she's had

problems with us in the past,

ever since the state stopped her from

homeschooling you anymore,

but we've got to bring her into this, okay?

Mmm-mmm. No.

Sweetie, we have no choice.

- We have to tell your mom what happened.

- No.

(GASPING)

DESJARDIN:
Carrie.

BOY:
Hey. Hey, you.

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(BOYS CHUCKLING)

(SIGHS)

(GASPS)

Tina, give it to me. Give it here.

This is brilliant. Look at this video.

GALS:
(CHANTING) Plug it up!

She got her period. On my hand.

(LAUGHS)

CHRIS:
That is so disgusting.

It was on my hand and Sue's shirt.

It was so disgusting.

(CHUCKLING)

Mmm.

I'm sorry you had

to come to school today, Mom.

(BRAKES SQUEAK)

(ENGINE RATTLES)

Let's go inside, little girl.

You need to come inside with me.

Mama, why didn't you tell me?

I was so scared, Mama.

I thought I was going to die.

Mama, they laughed at me

and they threw things at me.

We'll talk about this inside, Carrie.

No.

I want to talk about it right here.

I don't want to go inside with you.

(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)

(GASPS)

Crazy Carrie, Crazy Carrie! (SNORTS)

(SIGHS)

Crazy Carrie, Crazy Carrie.

(GRUNTS)

(PANTING)

(THUDDING)

MARGARET:
Oh, Lord, help my child.

She's lost.

Mama, stop it.

Mama!

I don't want to upset you.

So, you're a woman now.

And God made Eve from the rib of Adam.

- And what, Carrie? Say it.

- No, Mama.

- Say it.

- Talk to me.

- Please just talk to me.

- And Eve was weak.

I just want you to talk to me.

And the first sin was

the sin of intercourse.

And the first sin was

the sin of intercourse.

Why didn't you tell me, Mama?

And God visited Eve with a curse.

And the curse was a curse of blood.

I'm not going to say that.

That's not even in the Bible.

It doesn't say that anywhere.

Oh, Lord. Help this little girl

see the sin of her days and ways.

Show her if she had remained innocent,

the curse of blood would

not have come upon her as it did on Eve.

I'm not Eve, Mama. I didn't sin.

You showered with those other girls.

You had lust-filled thoughts.

Everyone has to shower, Mama.

Everyone. That's just the rules.

You must be different,

because He can see you.

I don't want to be different, Mama.

I want to be like them.

He can smell the sin on you.

And He will punish you.

(GASPS)

I will not let that

come down upon you. I will not.

Lord have mercy.

No. "The Lord is good.

His unfailing love endures forever,

and his faithfulness continues

through all generations. "

Psalms 100, verse 5.

I'm going to keep you

away from that school.

- You can't.

- We'll pray. We'll pray together.

To save our women-weak,

wicked, sinning souls.

You didn't tell me and they laughed.

I didn't sin, you sinned.

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