Mike Flanagan’s ‘Carrie’ resurrects a hail-of-stones scene cut from his ‘The Haunting of Hill House’, using it to foreshadow the full extent of Carrie’s psychokinetic powers earlier than in previous adaptations.
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01Summary
- 01The hail-of-stones sequence was cut from Flanagan’s 2018 Netflix series ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ because it didn’t fit the family drama’s new context.
- 02The same scene appears in Flanagan’s 2026 Prime Video miniseries ‘Carrie’, where the heroine unknowingly causes rocks to rain down after her mother insults a neighbour.
- 03Previous film and TV versions of ‘Carrie’ (1976, 2002, 2013) omitted the scene as it made Carrie seem too godlike and telegraphed her powers before the prom massacre.
- 04In Shirley Jackson’s original novel, the stone-hail is used to establish Nell as a lonely outsider; in King’s ‘Carrie’, it hints at the terrifying scale of the heroine’s abilities.
02Why it matters
This restoration deepens the characterisation of Carrie, making her powers feel more ominously inevitable and giving viewers a richer, more faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel.
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