10/23 Movie Trip

Paul McGuire Grimes, creator of Paul’s Trip to the Movies, shares a few horror movies you might want to check out during the spooky holiday.

CARRIE (Prime Video, 2026)

King published Carrie in 1974, and Brian DePalma made his film version with Sissy Spacek in 1976. There have been a few adaptations since then. Mike Flanagan takes the core characters and themes of King’s work and applies them to 2026 instead of keeping that 1970s setting. It’s a wise move, but one that means the audience needs to set aside their feelings for the book or previous movies and look at this one with a fresh lens. Flanagan introduces the audience to a young innocent girl named Carrie White (now played by Summer H. Howell) as she attends public school for the first time. She’s arriving after the winter break when the girls have their cliques and she&...