This still frame is taken from the 2013 reboot of the classic psychological horror Carrie.
In this particular scene, Carrie played by Chloe Grace Moretz has been tormented and humiliated at her senior prom, with a group of the 'popular girls, and boys' at the school dropping a bucket of pigs blood, all over her as she's crowned Prom Queen, in what seems to be a fixed vote. Earlier in the film, having been tormented and chanted at in the changing rooms, a time-line of insulted events causes Carrie to finally snap and she unleashes her telekinetic powers on the school hall, throwing tables and chairs, as well as people that bullied her; flying. This particular still shows a bloodied Carrie using her seemingly paranormal power to levitate herself across the school hall, having brought the stage lights down behind her creating a fiery background and revealing herself as some 'demon/immortal' figure. Especially considering the amount of damage and destruction she's already done. This sits as my favourite image simply because of Carrie' realization that because of these powers, she can inflict terror on those that did the same to her, in some kind of sick revenge. The way she is portrayed through the use of special effects and prosthetic makeup, considering the dark/red blood on her white gown, therefore removing the ideology that she is entirely 'pure' and then throwing in the hell/demon like effect of the fire later on makes this my favourite image in horror.
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