Based on a Stephen King novel, Carrie is the story of a girl brought up, almost in isolation, by her psychotically religious mother Margaret. After an embarrassing incident causes her fellow pupils to tease Carrie ruthlessly, her teacher severely disciplines the students. Determined to seek revenge, the students hatch a plot against Carrie, which turns horribly wrong when Carrie's strange mental powers are unleashed during the school prom….and turns it into a bloodbath.