This Carrie has the bloody prom scene, but it adds a modern horror: social media

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Set us as preferred Drenched in pig’s blood, an innocent prom queen stands in front of her classmates, bystanders to her torment.Her expression is catatonic.

Death and destruction follow.That image of utter betrayal and cruelty has defined every screen adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 novel about a high school girl with telekinetic abilities who becomes the target of incessant bullying: from Brian De Palma’s 1976 bona fide classic to the 2002 TV movie that aired on NBC, and even Kimberly Peirce’s 2013 reimagining with Chloë Grace Moretz in the titular role.A new eight-episode series from prolific horror storyteller Mike Flanagan, “Carrie,” streaming Wednesday on Prime Video, brings the conflicted heroine to the present, to a reality where active shooter drills and social media have turned adolescence scarier than ever.Yet, some elements remain intact.“We still go to prom, there’s still blood, the fans will be happy.

But it’s just a slightly new take and it’s a broader story,” says Summer H.Howell sitting at a restaurant inside a Santa Monica hotel on a warm August morning.The luminously charismatic 22-year-old Canadian actor from Manitoba plays Carrie White unlike any iteration before.

After her father’s untimely death, this Carrie, who grew up in a sheltered, cult-like environment, gets to interact with the outside world for the first time.“In every version, Carrie is this clenched up, traumatized, terrified person who is afraid of everything in the world from the minute we meet her,” says Flanagan during a recent chat in Los Feliz.“Part of the fun for me was thinking, ‘Let’s throw all that away.

‘What’s the opposite of Carrie?’ This Carrie is curious, eager, kind, earnest and excited to be there.”Flanagan’s Carrie hasn’t been touched by trauma yet, so at first she engages wi...