While Carrie begins eerily enough, there is a turning point where the screenplay abandons psychological horror of the kind that Shutter or The Conjuring dish out, and goes for full-gear gore instead. It then becomes more graphic and visceral rather than creepy.

As remakes go, it isn’t as lame as it could be. Director Kimberly Peirce gets inside the psychology of her characters more than Brian De Pal­ma did in 1976.