Prime Video’s Carrie Trailer Brings Stephen King Story To Current Age

Prime Video released the first trailer for Mike Flanagan’s series adaptation of Carrie, putting a new face on the classic story. The streaming service released the trailer over the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con before putting it out online.

You can check out the trailer below for the series, which stars Summer Howell as the titular character. The trailer teases some of the story’s most famous bits — the bloody prom, the shower bullying scene, and our first look at Samantha Sloyan’s Margaret White — but also shows a hint at how the story is changing for an era of online bullying. We see a social media account created to mock Carrie, and Alison Thornton’s Chris Hargensen being more insidious as she appears to befriend Carrie with ulterior motives.

The series comes from Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Haunting Of Hill House) and will run eight episodes. It stars Howell (Carrie), Sloyan (Margaret White), Matthew Lillard (Principal Grayle), Thornton (Chris), Thalia Dudek (Emaline), Siena Agudong (Sue Snell), Amber Midthunder (Miss Desjardin), Josie Totah (Tina), Arthur Conti (Billy) and Joel Oulette (Tommy). Other cast members include Heather Graham, Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco, Katee Sackhoff, Rahul Kohli, Crystal Balint and Danielle Klaudt.

The series premieres on October 7th on Prime Video and is described as follows:

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.

Told over eight propulsive episodes, the series expands King’s cultural landmark — deepening its characters and tensions, and following the small, everyday choices that build toward a single, shattering night, in a gripping, deeply human story about kindness versus cruelty, and whether we’re witnessing the making of a hero, a monster, or something far more complicated.