A new eight-episode Stephen King adaptation arrives on Prime Video on Oct. 7. The selection highlights the director’s film and television work, which often pairs supernatural horror with family drama and psychological conflict.
Mike Flanagan’s new version of Carrie arrives on Prime Video on Oct. 7. The eight-episode series brings Stephen King’s story into the present: Carrie White, played by Summer H. Howell, faces bullying at school and on social media while discovering her telekinetic powers.
Flanagan is known for adapting King and for stories that weave supernatural events together with grief, family relationships and psychological trauma. He also frequently casts the same actors across different projects.
In the miniseries Midnight Mass (2021), life on an isolated island changes after a mysterious priest arrives and a series of seemingly miraculous events unfold. The seven-episode series features several of the director’s regular collaborators, including Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli, Samantha Sloyan and Henry Thomas.
The Midnight Club (2022), based on Christopher Pike’s novel, follows young hospice patients who share frightening stories at night and make a pact: the first to die must try to send the others a sign from beyond.
In Doctor Sleep (2019), a sequel to The Shining, an adult Danny Torrance confronts his past decades after the events at the Overlook Hotel. Ewan McGregor plays Danny, whose story is shaped by his meeting with a young woman who has similar abilities.
The Haunting of Hill House (2018) follows five siblings who grew up in a house marked by supernatural events. As adults, they reunite after a tragedy and face family trauma and ghosts. The cast includes Carla Gugino, Victoria Pedretti and Michiel Huisman. Flanagan later returned to related themes in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020).
In Gerald’s Game (2017), Flanagan’s first King adaptation as a director, a woman is left handcuffed to a bed in a country house after her husband dies unexpectedly. Carla Gugino stars. The thriller Hush (2016) follows a deaf writer living alone in a remote home who is stalked by a masked man. Flanagan and his frequent collaborator Kate Siegel co-wrote the film.