Watch The Trailer For Mike Flanagan’s ‘Carrie’ Series

If you think you know Carrie White’s story, Mike Flanagan would like you to think again.

The horror filmmaker behind The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass and The Fall of the House of Usher is taking on one of Stephen King’s most iconic stories with a new eight-episode limited series adaptation of Carrie, arriving on Prime Video on October 7, 2026.

This time, Summer Howell steps into the role of Carrie White, the painfully isolated teenager whose emerging telekinetic abilities collide with the cruelty of her classmates and the religious fanaticism of her controlling mother, Margaret, played by Samantha Sloyan. While the bones of King’s 1974 novel remain, Flanagan’s version brings Carrie into the present day, where bullying no longer ends when the school bell rings and humiliation can spread across social media in seconds.

Here’s the official synopsis: “Misfit high-schooler Carrie White (Summer Howell) has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social-media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.”

Flanagan serves as writer and showrunner and directs four of the limited series’ eight episodes, with Amazon MGM Studios producing and King serving as an executive producer.

The cast also includes Siena Agudong as Sue Snell, Alison Thornton as Chris Hargensen, Joel Oulette as Tommy Ross, Josie Totah as Tina, Arthur Conti as Billy, Thalia Dudek as Emaline, Amber Midthunder as Miss Desjardin and Matthew Lillard as Principal Grayle.

Of course, Carrie has been adapted for the screen several times before, most famously in Brian De Palma’s 1976 film starring Sissy Spacek, which means Flanagan knew there was little reason to simply recreate what audiences had already seen.

“The only way to approach it was to build something new out of the ingredients of Carrie,” Flanagan told Entertainment Weekly. “Otherwise, there’s really no purpose in trying to retread ground that’s been so beautifully walked before.”

For Flanagan, that meant looking at how the themes King explored more than 50 years ago have evolved in an era of smartphones, social media and viral humiliation.

“The themes that Steve was talking about half a century ago of kindness versus cruelty, of empathy and bullying, and violence at school have become even more relevant today than he could have contemplated because of our relationship to technology and the degree to which violence encroaches on our high schoolers, especially in the United States,” he explained. “We had an opportunity to tell a story about a modern teenage experience that could use the seeds of these characters King created 50 years ago, but express them completely differently.”

All eight episodes of Carrie begin streaming October 7, 2026 on Prime Video.

Watch the official trailer below.