It wasn’t deliciously scary. It wasn’t hysterically gory. It had an important message. It was Carrie.

Starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore, this R-rated thriller is a remake of the original 1976 film adapted from a Stephen King novel. Moretz plays Carrie White, a high school outcast with supernatural powers who is bullied in school and abused by her excessively religious mother (Moore). After an incident of public humiliation in class, certain students begin to pity Carrie, and her luck seems to change with an invitation to prom. Yet misery can’t seem to escape her and once another disaster befalls, she knows her situation can never change.

There are two main reasons to see this film. First, eye candy and rising star Ansel Elgort. Second, the powerful lesson on bullying in high school. Though this film relies heavily on exaggerations, magical powers and buckets full of blood, it effectively portrays the catastrophe that can result when an isolated, oppressed, and ridiculed student finally explodes. Never has this been more relevant than during times plagued by school shootings. The update, with its illustrations on technology’s role in all of this, is much needed for that matter.

But for the chill factor? The bulk of the stomach churning moments occur in the last 30 minutes and aren’t new. My main thought leaving the theater? Something was missing.

If you want to see a movie purely for the creeps, see a different flick. But if you want to see a slightly disturbing movie that actually has substance, see Carrie.