<P> The score for Carrie was composed by Pino Donaggio . In addition, Donaggio scored two pop songs ("Born to Have It All" and "I Never Dreamed Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me") with lyrics by Merrit Malloy for the early portion of the prom sequence . These songs were performed by Katie Irving (no relation to star Amy Irving and her mother, Priscilla Pointer). Donaggio would work again with De Palma on Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain, and Passion . </P> <P> The soundtrack album was originally released on vinyl in 1976 from United Artists Records . A deluxe CD edition containing a few tracks of dialogue from the film was released by Rykodisc in 1997, and a 2005 CD re-release of the original soundtrack (minus dialogue) was available from Varèse Sarabande . In 2010, Kritzerland Records released all 35 cues of Donaggio's score for the film on a two - disc CD set which was presented as the complete score . Also included in this edition were the versions of "Born to Have It All" and "I Never Dreamed ..." which were heard in the film, as well as instrumentals of both songs, and hidden at the end of the final track, a version of the "Calisthenics" cue with Betty Buckley's studio - recorded voice - over from the detention scene . The second disc was a remastered copy of the original 13 - track album . The Kritzerland release was a limited edition of 1,200 copies . Kritzerland re-released the first disc as "The Encore Edition" in February 2013; this release was limited to 1,000 copies . </P> <P> Carrie received largely positive reviews and is widely regarded as one of the best films of 1976 . </P> <P> Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun - Times stated the film was an "absolutely spellbinding horror movie", as well as an "observant human portrait", giving three and a half stars out of four . Pauline Kael of The New Yorker stated that Carrie was "the best scary - funny movie since Jaws--a teasing, terrifying, lyrical shocker". Take One Magazine critic Susan Schenker said she was "angry at the way Carrie manipulated me to the point where my heart was thudding, and embarrassed because the film really works ." A 1998 edition of The Movie Guide stated Carrie was a "landmark horror film", while Stephen Farber prophetically stated in a 1978 issue of New West Magazine, "it's a horror classic, and years from now it will still be written and argued about, and it will still be scaring the daylights out of new generations of moviegoers ." Quentin Tarantino placed Carrie at number 8 in a list of his favorite films ever . </P>

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