United Kingdom, Oct. 7 -- Summer H. Howell was "covered in blood for 12 hours a day" while filming Carrie.

The 22-year-old actress, who has taken over Sissy Spacek's iconic role for Mike Flanagan's new adaption of the 1974 horror classic for Prime Video, has opened up about the gruelling process to make the memorable scenes look just right.

She told SFX magazine: "I'd be covered in blood for 12 hours a day when we had those scenes. It was a whole process.

"We had a blood tent, which they called the Dexter tent after a while.

"In there, our incredible makeup team would apply blood to me when we weren't doing the big blood drops.

"They would apply it precisely and I would stand in the tent for 45 minutes with goggles on, so it wouldn't...