Video: 'Carrie' trailer

(Halloween, Sunday, October 31, 1976, 12:01 a.m. EDT) — Carrie, an American supernatural horror film based on Stephen King’s 1974 epistolary novel of the same name about a young teenage girl who wreaks telekinetic vengeance on her high school tormentors and religious-nut mother, premiered tonight/this morning at several U.S. theaters as one-time special Halloween midnight showings.

Video: 'Carrie (1976) - Movie' (12 clips)

Directed by Brian De Palma, the film starred Sissy Spacek, John Travolta and Piper Laurie.

The film would go into limited release in the U.S. on Nov. 3, 1976, and full release on Nov. 16, 1976.