Everyday Superpowers: Carrie Publicity Stunt Is Kinda Awesome

I haven’t paid a lot of attention to the upcoming remake of the movie Carrie, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, because the Brian DePalma original from 1976 is a Goddamned classic, and seeing a remake is just yet another sign that Hollywood is out of original ideas and they won’t champion new properties and I am getting old oh God so old get off my lawn you damned kids and turn down that rotten hippity hoppity okay who pissed in my pants?

Ahem.

Anyway, even though Carrie is, as many of Stephen King’s best works, a superhero story (Don’t believe me? Carrie is about a girl with Jean Grey’s powers. The Dead Zone, The Shining and Doctor Sleep are about guys with Franklin Richards’s powers. Firestarter is about a girl with The Human Torch’s power. Jack Sawyer in The Talisman and Black House jumps dimensions like Pariah. And if The Gunslinger from The Dark Tower isn’t Batman with a gun, I’ll shit myself), it hasn’t really been on my radar… until this little stunt.

The producers set up a publicity stunt in a New York coffee shop where they packed the place with a few actors, a fake wall and some gimmicked props, before opening the place for business to the rubes and staging a little impromptu demonstration of psychokinetic rage. And while I try to call myself immune to these made-to-go-viral video publicity stunts, this one put a smile on my face. Because if I had been there to witness it live, I would have counted it as the greatest thing I had ever seen. Right after I established exactly who pissed in my pants.

You can check it out for yourself right after the jump.

Carrie opens next Friday, October 18th.