Miss Collins

Unaware that she is experiencing her first period, Carrie panics and screams in fear for help.

Her classmates, because teenagers are the absolute dirt fucking worst, respond by taunting her and throwing tampons at her, chanting, "Plug it up." Miss Collins, the gym teacher, played by Betty Buckley, takes Carrie to the office, where an uncaring principal's inability to even remember her name causes her to lose her temper and make an ashtray fly off the desk.

It soon becomes clear to us that Carrie has two crucial things in her life: psychic talents and a religiously fanatical mother, Margaret, played by Piper Laurie.

Margaret blames Carrie's period on lustful thoughts and abuses her, including locking her in a closet where she must repent to a statue of Saint Sebastian.

Miss Collins at school punishes the girls who tormented Carrie by giving them detention where she makes them exercise.

One of them, meanest of mean girls, Chris, played by Nancy Allen, uh, tries to rebel and gets suspended and banned from prom for it.

Another of the girls, Sue, played by Amy Irving, feels guilty over what she did and asks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, William Katt, to invite Carrie to the prom.

Chris convinces her delinquent boyfriend, Billy, played by John Travolta, to enlist friends in the prank to end all pranks as they slaughter a pig and set a bucket of pig blood over the stage.

It is so good.

The film featured an actress named Betty Buckley playing the sympathetic gym teacher, Miss Collins.

Keep a very big pin in her name.

Seriously, keep a pin in it because the way she intersects with this franchise decades later is easily one of the strangest twists in this entire deep dive.

Yes, Betty Buckley

The casting connection here is unbelievable.

Betty Buckley, the actress who played the sympathetic gym teacher Miss Collins in the 1976 movie, actually returned to the franchise 12 years later

Talk about a homecoming

And Mrs.

Eight is Enough herself, Betty Buckley, in the role of the sympathetic gym teacher, Miss Collins, even though her name in the book and in the 2013 remake is Desjardin.

I-

Uh, don't forget the honorable Sydney Lassick as the English teacher.

This one, I agree with you.

There's a lot of talent both behind and in front of the camera, but a lot of expository dialogue and a lot of moments that are forced, shoehorned in to prove, "Hey, we're in the 21st century now.

We're in the 21st century now." I think, for example, the fact that the gym teacher, Miss Desjardin, she no longer is the, the badass that she is in the '76.

She's not Betty Buckley, you know-

Yep.

They brought back Betty Buckley, who played the sympathetic gym teacher in the movie, Miss Collins, but they elevated her to the role of the terrifying mother, Margaret.

Which is great casting on paper.

Exactly.

She really did need that talk from the teacher.

Mrs. Collins really kind of did change her point of view where she starts to kind of clock into who she is and get out of that, like that thumb deeming down on her from mom, which I like.

So, um, if, if I was her, uh, I like Carrie.

Um, I would have, um, probably not electrocuted everyone but i i maybe would have just like instead of in the in the um fire extinguisher would have filled that with blood

It's tough.

Anybody in that

climate would not do – Well, by the time that Miss Collins even tries to step in, it's like, well, there's already been years and years and years of bullying.

And the principal doesn't really give a fuck.

But I, I also feel that it's like you're making decisions that are like clearly worse.

Like there, in some cases, there's like huge differences, like showing the entire like childhood, like, stage of the movie is different, but we're seeing a lot of, like, the same stuff from the original, and it's just sort of, like, it's diluted, and I always, like, reference the Carrie remake as this, because I love the original Carrie when the girls are, like, in detention, and you have Betty Buckley as Miss Collins, just, like, reaming them out, and then, like, when Chris is, like, I'm not going to do this, and she's banned from detention, it's just, like...

She called her a bitch or something or whatever.

She slapped her.