Exclusive 1:1 interview with director Kimberly Peirce for her remake of Carrie!

By Andrew Hegele

Posted 13 years ago

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Kimberley Pierce is one of the few directors I considered a cinematic genius out of the gate with her freshman film BOYS DON’T CRY, a movie so damn powerful I find myself literally quivering in anxiety whenever I revisit it. I can’t stress i enough, that picture is a masterpiece. So when I heard she’d be tackling a full fledged studio horror picture a year ago, I flipped like a giddy pup. The project seemed out of left field, yet the material is so fitting.

With CARRIE Kimberley is exploring themes similar to her award winning debut such as isolation, loneliness and identity… only this time in a genre that relishes a bloody macabre finale. We discussed her attraction to the story, her relationship with both the Stephen King novel as well as the Brian De Palma adaptation and the early days of development when MGM was tossing around the notion of turning the remake into a FOUND FOOTAGE picture.

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Favorite Movies: E.T., The Apartment, Boogie Nights, Shoot the Piano Player, The Apostle, read more Persona, Phantom of the Paradise, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Exorcist, Pulp Fiction, The Sweet Smell of Success, Chungking Express, Dawn of the Dead 78', Nashville, Singing in the Rain, Blume in Love, The Conversation, Dazed & Confused, The Ninth Configuration, The Last Picture Show, Ordinary People, Once Upon a Time in the West, Short Cuts, Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Naked, Lightning Over Water, Network, Shampoo, Clue, The Silent Partner, They All Laughed, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Melvin and Howard, Mean Streets, Elephant

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