Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" stated the film was an "absolutely spellbinding horror movie", as well as an "observant human portrait", giving three and a half stars out of four. Pauline Kael of "The New Yorker" stated that "Carrie" was "the best scary-funny movie since "Jaws"—a teasing, terrifying, lyrical shocker." "Take One Magazine" critic Susan Schenker said she was "angry at the way "Carrie" manipulated me to the point where my heart was thudding, and embarrassed because the film really works." A 1998 edition of "The Movie Guide" stated "Carrie" was a "landmark horror film", while Stephen Farber prophetically stated in a 1978 issue of "New West Magazine", "it's a horror classic, and years from now it will still be written and argued about, and it will still be scaring the daylights out of new generations of moviegoers." Quentin Tarantino placed "Carrie" at number 8 in a list of his favorite films ever.