Punk In England (1980)

Originally titled Punk And Its Aftershocks and later British Rock : Ready For The 80's is the weak follow up to the far superior Punk In London.

This being the middle piece in Wolfgang Buld's trilogy it makes me never want to see the final instalment which goes by the name of Regea In Babylon.

Punk In England takes us out of London and into the suburbs of Britain where punk rock has been lingering around passed its due date. The good old days of spit and anarchy are of the past and punk rock has been watered down, recycled and regurgitated again. Its become commercial and New Wave is right around the awful corner. Yuck!

We get some average footage from The Clash but nothing as mean and nasty as could be found in earlier documentaries or even films like Rude Boy. The Jam plays a song or two as does Siouxie & The Banshees. Then the film drifts off and on about Mods and Rockers and we get footage from bands like Madness which I was never to fucking fond of. I enjoy the footage from The Specials but the fans seem like a bunch of cunts. For me the best moment is some live footage from Spizzenergi. Those guys seem to be holding the old spirit of 77. The Boomtown Rats voice their shitty opinion a little more then I would have liked and this movie needs to have the fast forward button close by.

I would say skip this and check out Punk In London for a much better example of what Punk Rock was. That is unless you consider The Pretenders to be a staple in Punk Rock music. Speaking of The Pretenders the copy of Punk In England that I picked up is a double bill with an equally bad Wolfgang Buld documentary called Women In Rock. Be warned that shit is even worse!

Evil Dead 2 : Dead By Dawn (1987)

Its always a bad idea to make the sequel to your hit horror movie into a comedy. Evil Dead 2 is one of the exceptions to the rule. Six years after Sam Raimi's incredibly gory and unusually weird Evil Dead, the young director remakes his own movie. This time with a hint of comedy thrown in. Okay maybe a hint is an understatement.

This sequel/remake takes Ash (Bruce Campbell) back to the cabin where his friends were all slaughtered in the first film. Naturally nothing of this is mentioned and we just get a whole new set of blood splattered murder scenes.

Evil Dead 2 lacks the nasty, gritty look from the first flick. Unfortunately the flesh on the undead doesn't have that same crusty look that it did the first time around. Still we have decapitations (complete with dancing headless girlfriends), Heads are stomped in and eyeballs come popping out from the socket and go flying across the room into a unsuspecting victims mouth. Even the tree-rape is reenacted.

In one of the most memorable scenes Ash's hand becomes possessed and we have the privilege of watching Bruce Campbell smash plates over his own head, smash his face into the walls and floor and just generally beat the shit out of himself. He resorts to sticking a knife through his own hand (complete with splat) and then taking a chainsaw to his wrist, dismembering his possessed hand (Complete with more splatter). Naturally the possessed hand goes on the run and causes some mayhem. The hand gives off some rude gestures to our hero. This pisses Ash off and he shoots it with a shotgun. Next rivers of bright red blood blast our handless hero in the face. If you thought the corridor scene in The Shining had a lot of blood just wait till you see this. It is oddly reminiscent of the scene where Johnny Depp meets his demise in A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Sam Raimi made it a habit of doing scenes from this trilogy over and over in the sequels. In Army Of Darkness (the third film in the series) we get to a recap of when Ash saws his hand off. "Something got into my hand so I lobbed it off at the wrist". Army Of Darkness also had no choice but to continue with more elaborate monsters due to the direction that Evil Dead 2 took the series. This time around instead of typical demons we get more giant monsters and in the films climax Ash gets thrown into a time warp and ends up in Medieval times where he will be forced to fight an army of the undead in the next film.

Evil Dead part 1 is the best of the lot. Its a true horror film that holds back on the laughs. The demons are far more disgusting looking and in my humble opinion the gore looked better. Evil Dead 2 : Dead By Dawn is a fun watch for fans of the first film but new comers to the series really need to start in the beginning.

Escape From The Fire (2007)

Escape From The Fire is a short 13 minute independent film shot in 35mm. The setting is Nazi Germany and was filmed here in Long Island New York. Escape From The Fire stands aside from the majority of independent movies from this era for multiple reasons. The most obvious being that it was shot on film instead of digital video. The 35mm looks great and goes to prove that modern film makers can still make a movie that looks good if they were only given the tools needed. Video looks horrible. Always has and always will! Why Hollywood will spend 60 million on a movie but not pay the expense of decent looking film is beyond me. Another thing that makes Escape From The Fire unique is the fact that it is an American film with German dialogue. No subtitles are available. The story is basically told silently.

Then there is the films appearance. Escape From The Fire shows off a great deal of talent from young, unrecognized film makers. The cinematography and lighting are the high points of the film. We have some very interesting pull focus camera work through barbed wire fences and natural lighting and shadows add much realism as the story unfolds.

The downside is that the plot is very weak. There really isn't much story going on at all. Escape From The Fire relies more on atmosphere and emotion then anything else. The film follows a little Jewish boy on the run from S.S. troops. He Escapes From The Fire through the woods and takes refuge in a barn where he meets a little girl. Together the two children bond and find a moment of peace in a world that is doomed with violence, hate and murder.

Its a nice little film and a little bit sensitive. It would probably appeal to mom more then dad but any true cine-maniac can see the strong points in this indie expression.

Escape from the Fire Teaser Trailer

Shock Waves (1977)

The opening title sequence isn't open for much suggestion here. Shock Waves blares across the screen with a giant Swastika underneath. It flashes in bright colors and is sure to catch the attention of everybody watching.

Yes we are dealing with Nazi's here. Nazi-Zombies to be exact and as far as I know this is the first Nazi-Zombie flick to take place under water.

Of course Jean Rollin's Zombie Lake would be the other water logged Nazi Zombie flick that everyone remembers. While Zombie Lake is an all out exhibition in Eurotrash cinema Shock Waves is actually rated {PG} and is far from an exploitation movie. Instead it goes for classic style scares through music, imagery, acting and action. It actually works pretty effectively. Sure it would have been nice to have some tits and ass from the Margot Kidder look alike leading actress and some gore and splatter is always a nice addition to any zombie flick but for this reason Shock Waves is something different. Something unique. It stands on its own as a good horror film.

John Carradine plays the captain of a ship who lands six people on a deserted island that is inhabited by genetically engineered Nazi-Zombie-Soldiers who have been surviving under water.

Carradine has a bit more screen time then usual and the film makers definitely got their moneys worth from the old timer. Usually by this time Carradine would show up for a quick cameo, grab his paycheck and run. Then third rate film makers could slap his name to the title card and hope to sell more tickets to their B-movie. Not Shock Waves... John Carradine goes above and beyond. They get him in a bathing suit for his under water death scene and he is even carried by a group of young actors who leave the frail actor laying half nude on the beach.

Peter Cushing plays a S.S. commander. The one who is to blame for the zombies running amok. Cushing plays the German accent to the best of his ability which isn't very good but he does come complete with a nasty scar running down his face. He also gets into some action scenes, running from the zombies. Cushing couldn't control the genetically engineered Nazi soldiers during the war and he can't control them now. Cushing also gets a death scene along with pretty much every character in the movie.

Shock Waves may be rated {PG} and virtually goreless but the makeup is still pretty cool. From the simplicity of Peter Cushing's scar to the time consuming water logged zombie look. The makeup is very affective and to say the least it beats George A. Romero's grey face paint gag. We get some rotten zombies and a pretty cool scene where a drunkard has some sharp objects shoved into his face. The makeup was done by Alan Ormsby who did the special effects for Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. The director on the other hand went on to do the ultra-cheesy and equally silly Return Of The Living Dead Part 2. Shock Waves is by far the better zombie flick. Its not a comedy and its from the 70's... It must be better!

Originally shot on Super 16mm and blown up to 35mm for theatrical release in true Texas Chainsaw Massacre fashion. Blue Underground's dvd release looks great. Check it out for a creepy time under water with zombies and a strange yellow scene with John Carradine.

Kilink VS The Flying Man (1967)

Wow and I thought Mexican wrestling Lucha Libre films were crazy. They pale in comparison to the madness of Turkish super hero flicks.

I first learned of the skeleton masked super-villain when I picked up a book on rare horror cinema from around the globe. The book is titled Fear Without Frontiers and a very informative read on rare and hard to find horror flicks from over seas. According to the book the first Kilink movie which was a ripoff from an Italian comic book with a super maniacal villain in a skeleton suit was such a hit that 12 sequels, ripoffs and remakes came out in Turkey the very same year.

Kilink VS The Flying Man also known as Kilink VS Superman is the first official sequel the original (If you can call it that) Turkish film Kilink In Istanbul and takes off where Istanbul leaves off.

This being the very first Kilink film I have seen to date I can not compare it to its successful proceder. What I do know is this is one crazy fucking movie. Right away Kilink is totally different then anything that an American would be used to. The main character is a bad guy and you can't help but love him. He comes back over and over again as if he was Batman or something but instead of saving the people of Gotham City Kilink is killing mother fuckers, shooting doctors, hanging out with hot girls, blowing shit up and torturing women who wont put out. Fucking awesome!

Kilink doesn't really have any super powers. He is basically just a bad-ass criminal in a silly costume. He uses guns and other weapons all the while he has "Shajam" on his tail. Shajam is basically superman. He flies and sports a cape and costume with a giant S on the chest.

These Turk's don't give a fuck about copyright laws and the films make for a bizarre ride. The best way I can describe Kilink VS The Flying Man is if you took one of the weirdest and most disjointed Hong Kong Kung Fu flick you have ever seen like Ninja Death movies where things seem to happen for no reason and threw in some silly Mexican wrestling style super hero's and chopped it all together in the basement with the lights off and a pair of sunglasses on it might come out looking a bit like this.

My dvd is obviously taken from at least two different prints and most likely three for lost footage reasons. The film stock changes moment from moment and its filled with burps, jumps and skips. The first 20 minutes of the film is a maddening recap of Kilink In Istanbul and the films final climax is completely missing. Luckily for us they replaced the footage with still photo's and a voice over narration explains what is going on. This would be a drag in most cases but Kilink VS The Flying Man or Superman or Shajam or what ever the fuck you wanna call him is already insane enough where this almost just adds to the whole experience.

Fans of Santo and The Blue Demon would probably make the best audience for the Kilink movies. I am yet to see another Kilink flick but I might put this just a step above Lucha Libre movies.

The Female : Seventy Times Seven (1962)

The Female is an earlier work from Argentinian sex symbol Isabel Sarli. It can be found on a double feature dvd from Something Weird Video with the far superior and sexy Fuego. Fuego was my introduction to the beautiful, busty brunette from Argentina and is still my favorite to date. Isabel Sarli having 30 some odd titles to her name and The Female not being a very good one.

Sexy-Sarli plays Cora a prostitute with a nasty scar running down her face. Man after man enters her room in the sleazy brothel which she works in. If you have money you can screw her but you can not kiss her. That will cost you extra. As Cora rolls around with one of her johns she looks up at hole in the celling. She is overly frightened of the hole and I couldn't help but think the Argentinian film makers were inspired by Roman Polanski's Repulsion. Obviously this is not the case considering The Female is three years older then the Polanski masterpiece. None the less The Female tries for something of an artsy-fartsy story but fails.

As other prostitutes in the brothel screw hairy men and suck man-toes in ultra sleazy scenes of sexploitive smut Cora stares up into the hole in the ceiling which takes her into her past. The rest of the film is told through a flashback and I have to admit it is quite the boring flashback.

Cora takes us back to a love triangle between herself and two men in the desert. The three are dying of thirst and dig a well. Cora eventually leaves the men for dead and has her face cut in the middle.

The Female offers up typical roughie style camera work that gives off the impression that the film was shot through a key hole. We get the almost required through the legs shots but it also offers some very nice looking cinematography at times. This is really the only positive thing you can say about the film aside from the trashy close up on toe sucking. The Female is virtually plotless and even worse then that it doesn't show off Isabel Sarli's finner aspects. We might get the occasional nip-slip here and there but there is no intentional nudity. The least they could have done was gave us more cleavage and underwear shots. On top of this the characters are dull as can be and the film might as well have been silent because there is very miminal diologue and not really any score to be heard. Just the sounds of wind and some horses. The Female is a bad example of art and should be avoided.

For a much sexier time with the queen of sex from Argentina check out Feugo. It doesn't disappoint.

Who Ever Slew Auntie Roo (1972)

Curtis Harrington, the director of oddities such as Devil Dog : The Hound From Hell and Denis Hopper's Night Tide delivers another Shelly Winters thriller one year after Whats The Matter With Helen?. There is no question about it Curtis Harrington is a pretty weird director and it is quite possible that his movies are from mars but I can not understand what his fascination was with Shelly Winters.

Whats The Mater With Helen wasn't exactly a great movie and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo is significantly worse. Perhaps there was some sort of a contract between the two or maybe they were just friends. All I know is it is a pretty weird combo. Throw American Internationals Pictures into the mix and it is even more bizarre. What the hell did A.I.P. want with this picture? Its extremely soft and doesn't really offer anything shocking at all. Was there some kind of strange Shelly Winters fetish going on at the time that I don't know about?

Shelly Winters plays (yes you guessed it) Auntie Roo... An ex show-girl who lost her beloved daughter. Naturally she kept the corpse and she spends her time rocking the bones of her daughter in a cradle.

This year for Christmas Auntie Roo has invited kids from the orphanage to spend the night in her mansion. She fattens the little ones up and spoils them with presents. Naturally she kidnaps one or two of them and its not long before the authorities and the orphanage are aware of the missing children.

The kidnapped children believe Auntie Roo to be a witch and they reference Hansel And Gretel. The kids believe that Auntie Roo is going to kill them and eat them so they come up with an escape plan.

Considering that this film revolves around children I am sure you could have guessed that there is very little violence. We get a couple of ineffective jump scares and bunch of old style gags. There really isn't much here that can be recommended. For a much better Shelly Winters experience check out Cleopatra Jones... Anything but Auntie Roo.

The Entity (1982)

The Entity is an early 80's horror film that is based off of a true story. It wasn't intended for this ghost story to play like an exploitation movie but for many cult fans like myself this thing is total exploitation.

Barbara Hershey plays a single mother who is being haunted and terrorized by a ghost. The ghost is quite the horny fucker and he rapes Barbara Hershey repeatedly. Obviously she seems to be insane. After all who would ever believe a woman who claims to have been raped by a ghost? It all comes together with some nerdy ghost-hunters who believe her story. We get a really cheesy ending. In fact its just out right bad and in my humble opinion it actually hurts the film. The Entity also runs a bit to long. The final runtime clocks in at 125 minutes. Fortunately for us the majority of the film is pretty entertaining with ghost-rape and other ridiculous happenings. As ludicrous as it all sounds the viewer can almost buy into these absurd scenes of a rapist-ghost.

What I'm about to say now will probably earn me a lot of respect from p.c. idiots and feminists alike but Barbara Hershey looks pretty damn good in this movie and while the rape scenes are obviously somewhat disturbing it is also a pretty entertaining watch for pervy bastards like myself who think this invisible-rape shit is kinda hot!

There are lots of rape-happy ghosts in movies. One that comes to mind is Chinese Torture Chamber Story. Even the sickie, Japanese splatter flick Entrails Of A Beautiful Woman seems to have lifted scenes and special effects from The Entity but the truth is that The Entity is the grand daddy of all ghost-rapists and it is also the best.

I find it hard to believe that The Entity was even pitched and marketed as a Hollywood film but it is here and should be watched and enjoyed if not for anything else its totally bizarre plot. The beauty of The Entity is that it can be enjoyed by people who want to take it seriously and then by exploitation nut-bags who think the whole thing is a hoot.

The Hunger Games (2012)

So this is what everybody is talking about? The Hunger Games comes from the same director who did that Hollywood piece of shit in the 90's which went by the name of Pleasantville. I guess The Hunger Games is better then that sappy nonsense but it still makes for a typically over priced waste if time.

The Hunger Games is set in the future and depicts a world of two classes. That of the starving and that of the filthy rich. Those who are hungry will fight till the death. The winner will join the rest of the rich scumbags.

Now I have not read the novel so I can not compare the two but the movie is just dumb. Sure its a good idea but when it all comes together it is an overly predictable and sappy bore. Its just fucking stupid.

If you took Soylent Green and Battle Royale and Hollywood-ized them up with tons of bad c.g.i. and tagged on an upbeat happy ending you would be stuck with something like this. For me the sad part is that people are actually arguing over whether or not The Hunger Games is actually better then Battle Royale. Obviously this thing doesn't rank anywhere near the brilliance of the Japanese flick and it is a pretty useless argument all together. I have not heard anybody compare it to Soylent Green and I suppose I will be thankful for that.

The Hunger Games does have a few entertaining moments of action and murder but for the most part it is a modern p.c. fuck-tard of a movie with the most obvious of endings. Don't bother to see for yourself. Just stick with Battle Royale. Even B.R.'s sequel is better then this!

Tower Of Evil (1972)

Somehow this British slasher flick didn't make it to the Video Nasty list. We are treated to 89 minutes of sex and death. Plenty of gore for us splat-hounds and enough bare breasts for all you pervy dementos. Tower Of Evil also goes under title of Beyond The Fog but is mostly recognized as The Horror Of Snape Island.

Three out of four American teenagers (played by English actors with really bad fake American accents) are brutally murdered while on vacation on Snape Island. An Island that contains an old watch tower and a horrible reputation to go along with it. Amongst the "American" teens is Robin Askwith (Horror Hospital, Flesh And Blood Show). Askwith meets his fate when he is impaled by a giant golden sword that is pushed through his torso and leaves him a swingin on a door. We are treated to some Askwith nudity and a couple of other bare-ass men for all the ladies out there but the real humor comes from watching Askwith put on his best American accent. Jump forward in time and a group of archaeologists explore Snape Island in search of ancient buried treasure that has been hidden in the caves bellow Snape Island.

The archaeologists get more then they bargained for when they start getting knocked off one by one from the maniac who prowls Snape Island. We get decapitations (complete with rolling severed heads), Heads are twisted by 90 degrees in true Exorcist fashion, Machete's are embedded into achy-breaky skulls, stabbings, neck breaking, and some serious third degree burns.

Aside from the sex and violence Tower Of Evil holds somewhat of a creepy atmosphere as well. The fog is layed on thick and it works better then the expected dim lighting that comes complete with scenes that are to dark to enjoy. The fog is used excellently and the sets and locations are creepy all in there own.

Tower Of Evil is another example of a English horror flick that can deliver the goods. Fans of British director Peter Walker should check this one out. It holds the same nasty vibe that Walker delivers in many of his movie. Tower Of Evil is available on a British horror set with the great Horror Hospital, the bloody alien ripoff Inseminoid and the beyond awful Curse Of The Voodoo. The set is a good buy and well worth owning. Its just to bad they had to throw that shitty voodoo flick on there. Check it out for a bloody good time from the U.K.

Dracula (1931)

Dracula, the movie that made Bela Lugosi immortal. In the film he can be killed with a stake through the heart but due to this film Bela Lugosi's name will live on and he will forever be remembered as the count in the black cloak.

This 1931 early talking film from Universal Studios comes from the brilliant silent film director Tod Browning. Most would argue but I personally feel that outside of Freaks which would be released one year after Dracula his best work was done in the silent era. Movies like The Unholy Three and Alonzo The Armless just seem like they came natural to Browning where it is obvious that Dracula really should have been silent as well.

Tod Browning did not feel comfortable with the new talkies and in my humble opinion it really shows through in Dracula. The classic vampire tale is still a good film but it has a weird pace and awkward silence that flows with it. For this reason I prefer Browning's earlier work or even Nosferatu (1922) over the Lugosi classic. As a kid Frankenstein always appealed to me more then vampires. I still am not the biggest fan of the sharp toothed monsters today, despite my lifetime horror obsession but with that said Dracula is amongst my favorites in the vampire genre.

Comfortable or not Tod Browning's direction is excellent. The sets are fantastic and creepy and Gothic. Castle Dracula obviously set in Transylvania is very dark with shadows and massive amounts of spider webs. Perhaps one of the biggest single spider webs in cinematic history. The castle is full of bugs and giant rodents. Rats, possums and even armadillos scatter around with insects and Dracula's brides. These scenes are morbid, creepy and dark and it really is to bad that Mr. Browning couldn't have made the movie that he would have been more comfortable making.

Initially Tod Browning wanted to use long term companion and brilliant character actor Lon Chaney but unfortunately the man of a thousand faces met his death before Dracula started production. One can't help but wonder what would have happened if Chaney got the vampiric lead role. History would have been completely rewritten. Would Dracula have been the major success that it became with Bela Lugosi? If not, would Frankenstein have been made? If not, would there be monster films today? Its one of those things that you can think about for hours. Either way Dracula is a timeless classic that is here to stay unlike some of Browning's long lost vampire films from the silent age. I want London After Midnight and then I will know for sure if Dracula would have been better if done without sound.

Bloodrage (1979)

If you had to lump Bloodrage into a certain genre I guess it could be considered a slasher. Sort of... It really is just a horror/drama and stays as far away from a conventional stalk and slash movie as possible.

This one comes from director Joseph Zito who would go on to do the much more gruesome The Prowler and Friday The 13th The Final Chapter. BloodRage on the other hand is a very weird movie. Its slow and virtually bloodless. We do have a sick and twisted killer on the loose but his motive is never really deeply explored. The slow and bizarre pace mixed with the gritty, sleazy atmosphere makes Bloodrage a unique watch. It doesn't really tend to bore, even during long stretches between the murder scenes. The film somehow manages to hold the viewers attention due to the fact that our killer is so impulsive and nothing is ever written out for us.

The film starts off with a prostitute who murdered by a young teenage boy. Her face is pushed through a window and her throat is slit with broken glass. This is one of the few scenes of gore in the whole movie. Our young killer cleans up the scene of the crime and runs off to New York City where he can blend in with the rest of the scum. He is aware that the prostitutes lover was a police officer and that the cops will be after him. Bloodrage depicts NYC as the cesspool that it was. Seedy hotel rooms and raunchy theaters are shown as they were and the degenerates that terrorized the streets stagger passed the camera for an added touch of grit. I guess old habits are hard to break because its not long before our main character is killing hookers again. Most of the murder scenes are pretty lame and might as well just have been off screen murders. The nudity on the other hand is frequent and makes up for the lack of blood. Our killer is a voyeuristic nut. He enjoys peeping into prostitutes windows. That is until they notice him. The he goes in for a bit of the rough stuff. The wildest and most disturbing scene in the movie involves a dog killing. This scene has to be seen to be believed.

Bloodrage comes complete with strangulation, drownings, lots of bush and breasts, weirdo old perverts, weirdo young perverts, slit throats, pimps that throw a public beating, animal murder, foul mouthed junkie girls and an amazing climax that comes complete with some nasty straight razor slashing.

Bloodrage also known as Never Pick Up A Stranger might have the worlds ugliest cast. Our main character is one ugly fucker and we also have this ugly hippie chick who gets naked on screen for some added nausea. This busted up hippie chick makes the Manson girls look like Raquel Welsh. I think the ugly people and the ugly locations just add to what turns out to be a strange, and unusual ugly movie.

It really shouldn't work but it does. It holds very little replay value but is worth a watch for the dog scene and just how strange the final product is.

Carrie (1976)

 You don't really get more classic then Carrie. It has to be one of the saddest horror films ever made and of course we can thank Steven King and Brian De Palma combined for that. Between King's story and De Palma's masterful direction Carrie comes together as a heart wrenching drama with a horrific climax.

Carrie sports an all around excellent cast. Of course Sissy Spacek does an excellent job as the lead actress, who plays Carrie White a telekinetic teenager with a psychotic, religious mother. The kids in school hate her and she will eventually have her revenge through her super natural powers. Piper Laurie (The Hustler, Trauma) plays the insane mother of Carrie and her screen presence is creepy to say the least. Brian De Palma favorite Nancy Allen (Dressed To Kill) plays the hot highschool bully/bitch who gets her rocks off on tormenting Carrie. A young John Trovolta shows up as the "Dumb-Shit" boyfriend of Nancy Allen. This is only the second film that Trovolta has ever appeared in and he takes on scenes in which he slaps his girlfriend around, drinks and drives, kills a pig with a sledge hammer to the achy-breaky skull and meets his fate in a violent crash and burn car accident. P.J. Soles who most would probably remember best as the naked teen in Halloween who gets strangled in the infamous "Can I get your ghost Bob" scene or Riff Randel from The Ramones and Roger Corman collaboration Rock 'N' Roll Highschool also shows up as a mindless teenage follower who joins in on the heartless bullying of Carrie White. We are also blessed with the screen presence of one of cinemas most awkward and bizarre actors of all time. The great Sydney Lassick who I remember best as the cry baby lunatic who goes bats and screams "I want my cigarettes" in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest appears as a nerd-tastic teacher who enjoys teasing Carrie in front of the classroom. Mr. Lassick gets what he deserves and is fried alive in one of the films most memorable moments.            

Carrie mixes the wrongs of religious fanaticism with the cruel realities of highschool kids. Carrie's home life sucks. Carrie's social life sucks. Even the walls in school are graffiti with rude gestures. Watch for the scene in the gym when the janitor is cleaning the doors. "Carrie White eats shit" is written on the wall. Anybody who has been to school has seen kids doing horrible things to other and usual innocent kids. Carrie finally catches a break when a boy asks her out to the prom. What happens after that is just heart breaking but it all comes together with a highschool massacre. Everybody dies. We have people being crushed with heavy objects, electrocutions, explosions, stabbings and an amazing Crucifixion scene.

Of course they made a shitty sequel to this in the 90's that just isn't worth the time or effort. The also did a remake in the 2000's which I haven't seen and really don't want to. Some claim it to be more accurate in the sense that it is closer to Steven King's novel. Well I remember when they said that about The Shining. Need I say anymore? Skip church and stick with this 70's classic or else "they're all gonna laugh at you".