{"id":3991,"date":"2014-01-18T09:50:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T08:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2014-01-18T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T08:55:37","slug":"carrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2014\/01\/18\/carrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To tie in with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/themes.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Daughters of Darkness&#8217;<\/a> theme, Howard Hardiman revisits Brian De Palma&#8217;s supernatural horror classic <I>Carrie<\/I> (1976), based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. <I>Carrie<\/I> is out now in the UK on DVD + Blu-ray (R2\/B), released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3992\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Carrie-Comic-Strip-Review-Jan-14.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3991]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Carrie-Comic-Strip-Review-Jan-14.jpg?resize=474%2C711\" alt=\"Carrie Comic Strip Review Jan 14\" width=\"474\" height=\"711\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Carrie-Comic-Strip-Review-Jan-14.jpg?resize=594%2C891 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Carrie-Comic-Strip-Review-Jan-14.jpg?resize=300%2C450 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Carrie-Comic-Strip-Review-Jan-14.jpg?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Strip Review by Howard Hardiman <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">More information on Howard Hardiman can be found <A HREF=\"http:\/\/howardhardiman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To tie in with our &#8216;Daughters of Darkness&#8217; theme, we revisit Brian De Palma&#8217;s 1976 supernatural horror classic.<br \/>\n<b><i>Comic Strip Review by Howard Hardiman<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[691,718],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-comic-strip-reviews","tag-brian-de-palma","tag-supernatural-horror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/surUP-carrie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3813,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2013\/11\/13\/the-fury\/","url_meta":{"origin":3991,"position":0},"title":"The Fury","author":"Pam Jahn","date":"November 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Although it has never been perceived as one of his more credible efforts, Brian De Palma's follow-up to Carrie is definitely worthy of attention. 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