Remember Brat Productions version of Carrie? Philly.com's "The daily post" has offered their take ina review titled, "In campy version of Carrie, heroine is a bloody guy."
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Director Michael Alltop offers this interesting insight, "The characters don't see a guy. They see a lumpy, awkward girl." Alltop explains that the switch in gender is twofold: First it heightens Carrie's status as an outcast, and second, it's funny.
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To hype up the camp, Bart Productions encourages people to show up in their high school prom outfits. Yikes! Like those still fit.
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Regarding the altarations to the book and movie, the article notes, "Alltop posits the reason King gave Jackson his blessing to adapt his debut novel is that it deviates from the norm. "We're not trying to be the movie; we're not trying to be Broadway," Alltop says, referring to the 1988 musical that lasted only five performances on the Great White Way.
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But, as Ransom says, Jackson's script reveres the movie and the book, and Brat isn't skimping on the special effects, hiring a three-man team to recreate Carrie's telekinesis, including bursting lightbulbs, flying scissors and an exploding car.
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