“The symbolic function of woman’s menstrual blood is of crucial importance in Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976). Blood takes various forms in the film: menstrual blood, pig’s blood, birth blood, the blood of sin and the blood of death. It is also blood which flows between mother and daughter and joins them together in their life-and-death struggle…. What is perhaps most significant about Carrie’s telekinetic powers is that she acquires them at the same time as her blood flows, the time of her menarche.” - Barbara Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine
