Lake Mungo begins with the accidental drowning of 16-year-old Alice Palmer. But in the psychological horror film Lake Mungo - set in Ararat, Australia - the fear isn't born from external foes, but rather from the terror required to succomb to the depths of human feeling. Given that everything natural on the continent is designed to kill you, Australia seems an ideal setting for a horror movie. At the same time, she offers just enough tweaks and updated details to present the material in a new way." In their review, an EW critic writes that Peirce "follows De Palma's version quite faithfully, evoking everything from his camera angles to his lighting to his flying-object F/X to his gleeful staging of mean-girl antics. Directed by Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Don't Cry), this version of Carrie will look familiar to the generations that grew up on cell phones and social media, while still retaining the essence of what De Palma captured so brilliantly the first go round in his adaptation of the first novel Stephen King ever sold. Chloƫ Grace Moretz takes on the role that won Sissy Spacek an Oscar nomination, starring alongside Judy Greer, Portia Doubleday, Gabriella Wilde, Ansel Elgort, and Alex Russell. There are few heroes more pitiable than Carrie White, a sheltered, passive girl raised by a religious fundamentalist mother ( Julianne Moore), tormented by her peers at school, and - in the 2013 reboot of Brian De Palma's classic from 1976 - cyberbullied, after a video of her being taunted in the gym showers is uploaded to YouTube.
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