Carrie lands October 7 on Prime Video — Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode King series

The prom has a premiere. Prime Video’s Comic-Con panel locked Mike Flanagan’s Carrie for October 7, 2026 — all eight episodes at once — and debuted a teaser that hits the gymnasium faint, the crown, and the scream inside a fire without turning the series into a shot-for-shot 1976 remake.

Cast and the modern cruelty engine

Summer H. Howell is Carrie White; Samantha Sloyan is Margaret; Matthew Lillard plays Principal Grayle. The logline pushes viral bullying, social-media pressure, and telekinetic awakening after Carrie’s father dies and public school becomes the arena. Flanagan writes and showruns, directing four episodes; Stephen King is attached as EP on the Amazon MGM production.

First series, not another movie remake

King’s debut has been a film multiple times. This is the first proper series adaptation — eight hours to sit in the choices that spiral toward one night. October 7 stacks Prime’s horror autumn next to Caped Crusader’s late-July bounce and Blade Runner’s November cyberpunk.

If Hill House was architecture and Midnight Mass was faith, Carrie is high-school surveillance. Bookmark October 7. Bring a towel.