Stephen King's "Carrie" Through the Ages From leftt: Photofest; Peter Cunningham; Michael Gibson/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Screen Gems Carrie Through the Years From left, Sissy Spacek in the 1976 film; Linzi Hateley in the 1988 Broadway musical; and Chloë Grace Moretz in the 2013 remake. Carrie White has been remarkably resilient. Getting pelted with tampons for decades will do that to a girl. Since the high school misfit with emerging telekinetic powers and a religious-fanatic mother first appeared in Stephen King's 1974 novel, "Carrie," her blood-streaked face and prom dress have been among the most recognizable images in horror. Brian De Palma's 1976 movie version, starring the beautifully plain-faced Sissy Spacek, helped propel Carrie into pop culture consciousness with a scene that still scares the tiara off any aspiring prom queen. Shot in masochistic slow-motion, the sequence captures in grisly detail what happens when bullies rig up a bucket that douses her with pig's blood onstage in front of her classmates. Sent into an uncontrollable rage, Carrie uses her powers to turn the gymnasium into an inferno and the scene into a horror-movie touchstone. That hair-raising mix of gore and revenge has inspired composers to write stage musicals, fashion designers to create splatter-patterned costumes, knitters to sell Carrie-theme teddy bears on Etsy.com - and now Hollywood to produce a remake (due Friday). The slide show features some of the many versions (almost always titled "Carrie") of the picked-on heroine's signature look.