Unpopular opinion from the actual book: Carrie isn’t a revenge fantasy or an empowerment story. King writes her as a product of her mother’s religious abuse who then becomes a mass murderer over 400 dead, the town levelled, and the prom sequence only the start. The epistolary sections (the White Commission reports, the scientific papers on telekinesis) frame her powers as an amplifying curse, not a tool for justice. Adaptations that pull the ending back so she stays “innocent” or shift the worst of the violence onto someone else are dodging the novel’s point: the cycle of cruelty produces something worse than the bullies. The 1976 film at least didn’t flinch at that; most later versions, including the new series, do.