New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- There is a wholly understandable amount of remake/sequel fatigue in the median viewer. Every now and then, however, a writer or director's creative footprint is such it overpowers the aforementioned fatigue. It's why I'm really excited for the new Carrie miniseries, based on the 1974 Stephen King novel of the same name, releasing on Amazon Prime next week.

Mike Flanagan is one of the most original voices in horror film and TV in the last decade. For Netflix, the prolific American writer-director has developed limited series like The Haunting of Hill House (2018), Midnight Mass (2021) and The Fall of the House of Usher (2023). In roughly the same time-frame he has also directed well-received theatrical horror films li...