Carrie

Last night I went along with the Horror Group to see the movie 1976 movie Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma and based on the novel by Stephen King. The movie tells the story of shy, unpopular high school senior Carrie White (played by Sissy Spacek) who is constantly the target of bullies at school and abused at home by her fanatically religious mother (Piper Laurie). However, after a particularly traumatic experience at school, Carrie discovers a previously hidden power of telekinesis (the ability to move or cause changes in objects with the power of the mind). It's a very stylish and very disturbing movie. It's reviewed over at Permanently Weird, which is my movie and book review journal.

After the movie I had a drink and a chat with a couple of other people from the group and got home at around one in the morning. It was a really nice evening.

Today my Mum came around to pick me up and we went out grocery shopping and then we went back to my parent's house. I had some sushi for lunch, watched a couple of episodes of The Big Bang Theory, and read some of the comic-books that I got yesterday, which were all really good, by the way. I also listened to a radio adaptation of the novel Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.

Back home I listened to a radio episode of The Man in Black, which this week was presenting a story about an unsuccessful writer who owns a failing print shop and whose wife died several months earlier. One day a mysterious man appears who offers the shopkeeper a contract by which the old printer will produce hugely successful novels. Obviously it goes without saying that there turns out to be a very heavy price to pay. It was good. personally I love horror on the radio. It can be really effective, because you don't have the visual element you have to rely entirely on your imagination, which can produce things far more disturbing than anything in a movie!