It seems that Sissy Spacek’s husband, Jack Fisk, had been hit by a automotive as a baby, and she or he may use his expertise to assist herself out. “In that scene, what is going on on in my head is [Jack] strolling alongside the facet of the highway when he was about 11 or 12,” Spacek defined. “It is snowing, and he is taking a look at Christmas lights. After which he noticed automotive lights. There was a automotive coming down the highway proper at him, and it ran him over.”

It is a stunning comparability to the bathe scene, however it is smart. Carrie’s preliminary deer-in-the-headlights response to what’s occurring to her is, in hindsight, remarkably becoming. “When Carrie’s within the bathe, I am seeing these Christmas lights, after which the horror of the blood …” Spacek mentioned. “Ain’t it weird that one thing like that would work?” 

A lot of the emotional resonance of “Carrie,” each the guide and the 1976 film, is how a lot the tragic finale feels believable from Carrie’s perspective. The horror is not simply {that a} teenage lady murdered all her classmates; it is that viewers and readers are made to totally consider she’s been pushed to that time. Nobody condones her actions on the finish, however as early as that opening bathe scene, we are able to definitely perceive.