Filmmaker Mike Flanagan is reteaming with Stephen King to adapt Carrie into an eight part television series for Amazon Prime.

Few modern filmmakers have a filmography as consistently good in horror as Mike Flanagan.

Making his debut in 2011 with Absentia, he followed it up with Oculus in 2013. But it was with the terrific Hush in 2016 that Flanagan really showed horror fans what he could do. After a sojourn into sequels with Ouija: Origin of Evil, also in 2016, he began a fruitful collaboration with Stephen King.

It began with Gerald’s Game for Netflix in 2017 – a film which for the most part is a psychological thriller but which also contains a violent sequence which is almost impossible to watch – followed by the critically acclaimed Shining sequel Doctor Sleep in 2019, which features a terrifying turn from Rebecca Ferguson as antagonist Rose the Hat.

According to Deadline, Mike Flanagan is now teaming up with…