Mark Hamill recalled watching the 1976 horror film “Carrie,” starring Sissy Spacek, and how a theater employee made him miss the best scene.
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In an interview with “Entertainment Weekly,” the 73-year-old actor said that the experience of watching what he calls “one of the greatest scares in cinema history” was ruined by a young usher who was patrolling the theater with a flashlight — someone Hamill still holds a grudge against to this day.
At the end of the classic directed by Brian De Palma, Sue Snell (Amy Irving) visits, during a nightmare, the site where the White family’s house collapsed. She places a small bouquet of flowers on the ground, but suddenly Carrie’s (Sissy Spacek) bloody arm bursts through the rubble and grabs her — giving the audience a huge fright.
“Moments before that happened, an employee shined a flashlight and said, ‘No smoking in the theater.’ I wasn’t smoking. Maybe someone in the row below was. But I turned around to say, ‘I’m not smoking,’ and then I heard the whole theater scream: ‘Ah!’”
When he looked back at the screen, Carrie’s arm was already out. “I will never forgive that person, because you don’t get the chance to be surprised like that a second time,” Hamill complained.
“I still love the movie, but I’m so angry because, as I said, this is one of my favorite scares of all time — and I missed it because of an overzealous employee.”
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