Question: Is it me, or is Carrie's mother smiling when she gets stabbed multiple times by Carrie?
Brian Katcher
3rd Jul 2013
Carrie (1976)
Answer: She was also crucified, which makes her feel connected to Jesus.
Answer: I think for somebody as repressed as Carrie's mother even something like physical pain is a kind of release (her moans sound sexual to me). Also, remember the mother talking about enjoying Carrie's father touching her? "Hands all over me", there could be a parallel there.
I agree – it almost seemed like she was having an orgasm, or close to it, during her death throes.
Answer: My feeling is that being so fundamentally religious that she was almost happy to finally die, and meet God as she believed.