Carrie Official Trailer: Prime Video Reveals Mike Flanagan’s New Stephen King Horror Series
Reel Perspectives
Septemeber 9, 2026
Prime Video has unveiled the official trailer for Carrie, the upcoming eight-episode Original series from showrunner Mike Flanagan, and this time, Stephen King’s infamous tale of teenage cruelty, repression, trauma, and supernatural revenge is getting a haunting new life. Starring Summer H. Howell as Carrie White, the series promises to revisit one of horror’s most recognizable characters while digging deeper into the girl behind the legend and the events that turned Chamberlain into a nightmare.
Watch the official trailer for Carrie below and get your first chilling look at Prime Video’s next generation of the horror classic.
The trailer immediately establishes that this is not simply a retelling designed to recreate moments audiences already know. Instead, it hints at a more expansive story that wants viewers to question everything they think they understand about Carrie. She is still an isolated young woman struggling to find her place in a world that seems determined to make her feel like an outsider, but Flanagan’s adaptation spends more time exploring the emotional wounds beneath Carrie’s quiet exterior and the people and circumstances responsible for creating the storm brewing inside her.
School becomes a battleground filled with mean girls where humiliation and cruelty is overwhelming, while the pressures surrounding her at home appear just as disturbing. The glimpses of Carrie trying to navigate adolescence suggest a young woman caught between wanting desperately to belong. The trailer plays with that tension beautifully, allowing the audience to see the vulnerability before reminding us that there is something far more dangerous waiting underneath it. And then there are the powers.
The trailer gives us tantalizing glimpses of Carrie discovering that her emotions may have consequences far beyond anything she can control. The atmosphere becomes increasingly sinister and what begins as the story of a painfully isolated teenager gradually transforms into something much darker, highlighting Carrie’s supernatural abilities may be only one part of the horror waiting to explode.
The real hook of this series is the possibility that there are chapters of Carrie White’s life we have never seen. Mike Flanagan has the opportunity to expand the mythology while maintaining the emotional core that has kept King’s story relevant for generations. The trailer certainly suggests that this version intends to examine Carrie not merely as a horror icon, but as a complicated young woman shaped by the people around her and pushed toward a breaking point.
For longtime Stephen King fans, Carrie offers the chance to return to familiar territory through a significantly expanded television story. For newcomers, it could be an entirely fresh introduction to one of horror's most fascinating characters.
Prime Video will release all eight episodes of Carrie on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
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