🎬 Four attempts. One finally works.
Brian De Palma's 1976 *Carrie* remains the gold standard. Three revivals — 1999, 2002, 2013 — all failed. Now Mike Flanagan (*Gerald's Game*, *Doctor Sleep*) brings an eight-episode series to Prime Video in 2026, and it actually holds up.
He remixes rather than retells: Carrie enters high school as the new girl for the first time in any version, and Margaret White becomes a crusader against an anonymous Instagram account targeting her daughter. Samantha Sloyan, a Flanagan regular, owns every scene she's in.
After three misfires, the fourth attempt counts.
Collider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkUw2nh6fT0
Post #3781
744