Carrie

A New Girl at School

In Carrie, which was Stephen King's 1974 debut novel, Carrie White loses her father unexpectedly and starts high school for the first time. After one of her encounters with her bullies goes viral online, the fallout from it all envelops her small community. Along the way, Carrie White discovers that she's a lot more powerful than anyone could imagine.

Flanagan Returns to King

Carrie marks Mike Flanagan's fourth adaptation of a Stephen King property, after Gerald's Game, Doctor Sleep, and The Life of Chuck. Carrie comes out of his newer deal with Amazon. Flanagan previously helmed horror series on other streaming platforms. Netflix released his The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and Midnight Mass (2021).

The original Carrie is an unusual Stephen King novel in that it's epistolary, weaving in elements like newspaper articles, personal letters, interviews, etc. As a movie, it had to give up that format and become more streamlined, like pretty much every adaptation. In making Carrie a series, Flanagan can presumably take advantage of some of that and delve into characters with greater depth, not to mention move at a slower, creepier pace.

That said, like King's novel before it, Carrie will still be about high school mean girls. Where King depicted it in an era before the internet, however, the Prime Video series is contemporary, with a bullying incident going viral online and dragging in the rest of the community.

Who Plays Whom

• Summer H. Howell as Carrie White (Hunter Hunter, Channel Zero)
• Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House, The Midnight Club, The Fall of the House of Usher)
• Siena Agudong as Sue Snell (Resident Evil)
• Alison Thornton as Chris Hargensen
• Joel Oulette as Tommy Ross (Trickster)
• Josie Totah as Tina Blake (The Buccaneers, Saved by the Bell)
• Matthew Lillard as Principal Grayle (Scream)
• Amber Midthunder as Miss Desjardin (Prey)
• Kate Siegel (Midnight Mass)
• Katee Sackhoff (Oculus, Battlestar Galactica)
• Heather Graham

Eight Episodes, One Drop

Carrie is a limited series that released all episodes at once on October 7, 2026. You can watch it on Prime Video in India if you've got an Amazon Prime subscription. Stream it using the Prime Video App on the Fire TV Stick, Fire TV, Fire TV Cube, or get the app on Android or iOS devices, smart TVs, Chromecast, gaming consoles, and other such devices.

Official Trailer

Prime Video shared a Carrie teaser way back in July. Since then, it released a Carrie trailer on 9 September 2026. It's available on its channel on YouTube.

Who It's For

Horror fans. Carrie adaptations have previously been only as movies. Brian De Palma's 1976 version was nominated in acting categories (Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, Piper Laurie as her mother Margaret). A TV-movie followed in 2002, and a more recent remake starred Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie White and Julianne Moore in 2013. A Carrie series can dig deeper, especially one made by Mike Flanagan, whose slow-moving, character-first works (and ensemble casts, as evident above) suit streaming. Samantha Sloyan is no stranger to his worlds, either. The soundtrack is courtesy of longtime collaborators, The Newton Brothers aka composer duo Taylor Stewart and Andrew Grush (who's worked with Flanagan since Oculus).

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