Cameos in Mike Flanagan's Carrie series on Prime Video

Centre · 2Mike Flanagan's Carrie, an eight-episode Prime Video adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 debut novel, is now available to stream and has drawn attention for several cameos. 1 2 Centre · 1In the penultimate episode, "Romantic Literature", the pig's blood prom scene involving Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) cuts to a crowd of stunned faces that includes horror creators Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Dust Bunny) and Don Mancini (Chucky, Child's Play), according to Deadline. 1 Centre · 1Mancini had congratulated Flanagan on Instagram the week before, calling the series a "brilliant, heartrending new version" and saying fans of De Palma's film will love it because it is "rewardingly, and thrillingly, different". 1

Centre · 1Howell, who plays Carrie, made her onscreen debut in Mancini's Curse of Chucky (2013) and returned in Cult of Chucky (2017). 1 Centre · 1Flanagan has also praised Fuller's version of the Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, which has since been taken over by showrunner Brad Caleb Kane and premieres Oct. 15 on Peacock. 1 Centre · 1Screen Rant reports a further cameo: Mark Hamill appears in the opening of episode 6 as Greg McMurray, a fraud who poses as a psychic called Damon Nostra, in one of the show's flashes to other women with the TK gene. 2

Centre · 1In an interview with Screen Rant, Flanagan said Hamill is a friend they have worked with twice before, was "really excited to come do one scene", and asked only to be "somewhat unrecognizable" and for it not to be made "a big deal". 2 Centre · 1Flanagan said much of the Carrie crew had worked with Hamill on The Fall of the House of Usher, so his return, even for half a day, felt like "a little homecoming". 2 Centre · 1The series also reunites Flanagan with recurring actors including Samantha Sloyan, Matthew Lillard, Kate Siegel, Katee Sackhoff and Rahul Kohli. 2