Of course, "Carrie" is a great revenge movie -- there was a purposefulness in King's original book that you wanted her to triumph, even in an evil way, over the also purposefully portrayed simplistic characters. I just find Kings writing to be terminally prosaic, excepting "The Shining." He writes novels to sell to Hollywood. "Carrie" is a better movie than it was a book.
(The bevy of bad King movies and TV miniseries could be a world record).
