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The streamers are fighting over Halloween
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Crystal Lake, Carrie, Below, and Yaga are all competing in a very busy October.
Crystal Lake, Carrie, Below, and Yaga are all competing in a very busy October.
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The Toronto International Film Festival is a place to go to see the future of film, but this year it also provided a glimpse at what is coming very soon in the realm of streaming. Four different streamers — Peacock, Netflix, Amazon, and AMC — all premiered early looks at upcoming horror-adjacent series that are dropping very soon. And by doing it at TIFF, they showed just how important the month of October has become in the realm of streaming.
Perhaps the most high-profile is Carrie, which is coming to Prime Video. An adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel, which has already been turned into no fewer than three feature films, this version of Carrie is notable in particular because of who is helming it. Mike Flanagan has done a handful of King adaptations in the past — including Doctor Sleep and The Life of Chuck — but the director is perhaps best-known for his work on limited series for Netflix. That includes the likes of The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Those series came out on a near-annual basis between 2018 and 2023, making Flanagan’s particular blend of dramatic horror a staple of Netflix in October.
Then, in 2022, Amazon poached Flanagan to work on projects for Prime Video. The first of these is Carrie, which starts streaming on October 7th. It still tells largely the same story as its predecessors — a young girl’s destructive psychic powers awaken after getting bullied in high school — but it updates it in a few ways. For starters, the story has been thoroughly modernized, with much of the bullying happening in cyberspace. But since it’s a series instead of a movie, Carrie also stretches out the story, which gives it the space to explore the teen drama a little, and also adds plenty of opportunities for Flanagan’s trademark lengthy monologues. I’ve only seen the premiere episode so far, but early on it’s a combination of flavors that work really well together.