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Carrie ★★★★
To date, every remake of Carrie has failed to near the power of Brian De Palma’s 1976 classic take on Stephen King’s first novel: a terrifying and tragic story of a shy high-school outcast relentlessly bullied into a murderous, supernatural rage at her prom.
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remake → fail → prom
It simply can’t be replicated; and thankfully horror auteur Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass), the man behind Carrie’s first miniseries adaptation, knows it.
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Flanagan → replicate → it
While the basic plot, characters and classic scenes (Carrie pelted with sanitary products, a prom queen soaked in pig’s blood) are present, Flanagan otherwise remixes the story with a modern-day setting, sweeping reflections on contemporary America and a focus on cyberbullying previously attempted by the 2013 remake starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
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Flanagan → pelt → Moretz
Not everything connects.
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everything → connect → ?
Purists will take issue, no doubt, with the central role that an anonymous Instagram account takes in Carrie’s bullying, resulting in scenes that feel a little too close to Gossip Girl or Mean Girls.
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that → take → Girl
And, while Flanagan introduces elements of King’s novel not in other adaptations, the presence of original characters such as Carrie’s mysterious friend Emeline (Thalia Dudek) don’t necessarily add much.
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presence → introduce → much
If some plots feel like they exist purely to stretch King’s unusually short novel into a 6.5-hour, eight-episode event, they’re likely setting up something more, with Flanagan stating he envisions his Carrie as a “three season” series.
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he → feel → series
While actor Summer H. Howell bares a striking similarity to De Palma’s lead, Sissy Spacek, her version of King’s anti-heroine is far-flung from the shy, scarred girl in the 1976 film, thanks to a new backstory.
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version → bar → backstory
Here, Carrie’s ultra-libertarian, conspiracist dad and ultra-religious mother Margaret (Flanagan mainstay Samantha Sloyan) have never once let their daughter leave the house.
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daughter → let → house
But when her father dies on a building job in the show’s opening scenes, authorities discover Carrie exists, and she’s forced to enter school for the first time at 15.
Despite it all, Carrie is open-eyed and trembling with excitement as she enters school – the lead of a gentle, shoegaze-soundtracked coming-of-age story who is failed by others at every turn.
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who → die → turn
After demanding she attend school, the state has made no effort to prepare her.
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state → demand → her
She arrives unsure what the metal detector is, let alone aware of why the school needs one.
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school → arrive → one
She’s never even met another teenager, and this is a cruel cohort.
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this → meet → teenager
Carrie’s main bully Chris Hargensen (Alison Thornton) is particularly vile in this version, with new insight into her dysfunctional family begging the question: if Carrie can choose kindness (until the very end), why can’t Chris?
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Chris → beg → end
In Flanagan’s telling, it’s Carrie’s contact with modern life – not her family’s lifelong abuse – that corrupts her kind heart.
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that → ’ → heart
Carrie is streaming on Amazon Prime Video from October 7.
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Carrie → stream → October
We’ve got you.
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We → get → you
Get The Watchlist delivered every Thursday.
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Watchlist → get → ?
- What’s Julia Morris doing after I’m a Celebrity?
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I → do → ’m
Whatever she wants.
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she → want → Whatever
- Last Meals: Why TV is full of celebrities eating chicken and doing Tim Tam slams.
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TV → eat → slams
Meet the man who inspired the show.
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who → meet → show
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