This fragmented story of two runaway children, 50 years apart, takes too long to come together.

While director Kimberly Peirce’s CARRIE does coming-of-age anxiety well, it doesn’t deliver on the horror side.

Two movies open tomorrow featuring British men with a fundamental and crippling fear of being alone. Both have extremely strong bonds to the men in their lives. When those men disappear, they are left alone with their worst inclinations. The two have very different coping mechanisms. For one, the answer is suicide. For the other, it is to commit enough mischief and calculated manipulation to bring his wayward partner back into his orbit. For…