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Carrie White is back. Mike Flanagan, who made The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, has turned Stephen King's first novel into an eight-episode series, and all eight land on Prime Video on October 7 (Amazon). Summer H. Howell plays Carrie, and Flanagan regular Samantha Sloyan plays her mother, Margaret. This Carrie gets hit with a viral bullying scandal, so the cruelty spreads through every phone in town.
You'll be through all eight by Sunday. Here's what to put on Monday — all of them horror, not ballet dramas or black comedies that share a vibe.
Heads up: the Carrie series (2026) is too new to be on goodrecmovies yet. Every movie and show below is on the site now.
Start where it started. Brian De Palma's version turns 50 this year, and it still has Sissy Spacek's stare, Piper Laurie as the scariest mother in horror, and a prom night that goes wrong all at once. Spacek and Laurie were both Oscar-nominated, which almost never happens for a horror movie. Watch the split-screen finale and see how much horror borrowed from it.
Oskar is twelve, bullied at school and lonely at home in a snowed-in Stockholm suburb. Then Eli moves in next door, and Eli never comes out in daylight. Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film moves slowly and quietly, and the payback scene at the swimming pool is worth the wait. Subtitled.
Let Me In (2010) is the American remake, and it's on the site too.
A family tries to hold itself together after a grandmother dies, and the grief opens a door they can't close. Toni Collette plays a mother whose control frays in public and in private. Ari Aster builds the dread slowly, then drops the floor out — smothering family horror with nowhere to put the blame.
Dani (Florence Pugh) is still raw from a family loss when her boyfriend drags her to a midsummer festival in Sweden that never turns the lights off. Aster again: bright daylight, folk ritual, and an outsider who eventually stops asking permission. If Carrie's rage needs a sunny twin, this is it.
A widower holds a fake casting call to find a new wife, and the quiet girl he picks (Eihi Shiina) is not who he thinks. Takashi Miike's film starts like a romance and becomes one of the hardest revenge horrors of the '90s. Subtitled. Go in cold.
Laura brings her family back to the orphanage where she grew up, hoping to reopen it as a home for disabled kids. Her son starts talking to invisible friends, then disappears. Juan Antonio Bayona's Spanish ghost story is about motherhood, guilt, and a house that won't forget. Subtitled.
Flanagan's earlier Stephen King movie. Ewan McGregor plays a grown-up Danny Torrance from The Shining, who has to protect a girl with a frightening psychic gift from Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson) and her gang of drifters. If Flanagan is the reason you watched Carrie, watch this next.
More King, more kids nobody sticks up for. The Losers' Club in Derry, Maine, has a vicious bully on one side and Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) on the other, so they have to stick up for each other. The jokes keep coming between the scares.
At 2:17 a.m., seventeen kids from the same classroom walk out of their homes and vanish. One kid doesn't, and the whole town blames their teacher (Julia Garner). Zach Cregger tells it one character at a time, and every new chapter changes what you thought happened.
A group of Australian teens find an embalmed hand that lets the dead take over your body for ninety seconds, and they turn it into a party trick filmed on their phones. Mia (Sophie Wilde) is still grieving her mom, and she keeps holding on past the ninety seconds. Of everything here, it's the closest to Flanagan's phone-age Carrie.
Three Flanagan shows (and one Carrie cousin)
Want more episodes instead? These are on the site too.
Flanagan's breakout. Five siblings who grew up in a haunted house find out as adults that it still won't let them go.
A magnetic young priest arrives on a tiny island and the miracles start. Samantha Sloyan, the new Margaret White, is impossible to look away from here.
Flanagan does Poe. A rich family's heirs start dying, one after another.
Stranger Things (2016) — not horror the way these are, but if you're chasing the telekinesis-and-bottled-rage DNA, Eleven owes Carrie a thank-you card.
Want more nights like this? The best horror movies of all time are on one list, and if your movie buddy can't handle blood, start with scary movies that aren't gory.