Amazon’s ‘Carrie’ Sets A Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Record

‘Carrie’ may have been a risk to remake, but Mike Flanagan has done it again and set a Rotten Tomatoes audience score record with the show.

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There was a lot of skepticism about Netflix’s horror guru Mike Flanagan taking an existing property like Carrie and re-adapting it for at least the fourth time onscreen. But now that it has dropped all episodes on Amazon Prime Video, Flanagan’s new home, reviews from both critics and audiences say maybe it wasn’t such a bad idea after all, as per at least one record Rotten Tomatoes score.

As it stands, Flanagan’s Carrie has the second-highest critic Rotten Tomatoes score for the property outside of the original 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. But in terms of audience score, it has the best reviews out of any of them, including the first movie. Here’s the breakdown:

• Carrie (movie, 1976) – 94% critic score, 77% audience score
• The Rage: Carrie 2 (movie, 1999) – 25% critic score, 33% audience score
• Carrie (movie, 2002) – 32% critic score, 49% audience score
• Carrie (movie, 2013) – 51% critic score, 44% audience score
• Carrie (miniseries, 2026) – 85% critic score, 84% audience score.

It also has the highest IMDB score out of any of them, a 7.9/10 to the original’s 7.4/10. It is actually tied with The Midnight Club for Flanagan’s lowest Rotten Tomatoes score for his horror miniseries projects, which should tell you something. Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Haunting of Hill House all range from 87%-93%. Some consider Hill House and Midnight Mass among the best horror series of all time, or among the best Netflix shows since its inception.