Carrie

weave it into current society,make it relevant, make it important, so that it can speak to you on a much deeper level. Mike Flanagan did exactly that. With maintaining the original essence of horror, character and story, he added his own unique style to it, while highlighting the issues of bullying, online harrasment, parenthood, peer pressure, education system and vulnerable stage of adolescence so perfectly. This Carrie is made for this generation ,and this is the magic of Stephen king, whose stories always stand the test of time. Carrie almost feels like an inner fire bursting out and absorbing everything and anything which troubled her, suppressed her and broke her from inside. And as teenagers growing up, we all felt that fire within us. Carrie just elevates those emotions in a supernatural story setup. One of my favourite moments from the series is at the end of episode 7, when Carrie is drenched in blood and it just cuts to a black screen with other students desperate screaming in pain and the chaos continuing in the background as the credits roll. It gives goosebumps, Flanagan really killed it there. I know many disliked it, who are fans of the 1976 version of Carrie, i would say both are brilliant, and if Mike Flanagan just tried to do what they did in 1976, then there is no use of making another adaptation. I feel Flanagan does enough changes with characters, themes and style to make it as fresh and relevant to this time, and i really enjoyed it.