The best Stephen King adaptation is now available to stream on Max
As part of March’s slate ofnew moviesand TV shows, Max has just added the highest-rated Stephen King adaptation of all time.
While Osgood Perkins’ adaptation ofThe Monkeyis earning critical acclaim, Max is revisiting one of the best Stephen King stories.
King’s work has often appeared on lists of thebest horror movies, and withnew adaptationson the way (including The Long Walk and The Running Man), there’s no sign of slowing down on his work.
If you’re looking to check out one of his first (and best) novels-turned-movies, then you simply need to head to Max.
Stephen King Carrie adaptation is now on Max
Both the 1976 and 2013 versions of Carrie have been added to thestreaming serviceas of March 1.
Carrie was King’s first published novel, and subsequently, the first adaptation of his work. In the years since the first movie was released, it still remains the highest-ratedKing movieon Rotten Tomatoes at 94%.
The 1976 horror starred Sissy Spacek and John Travolta, and followed a young woman who discovered she had telekinetic powers after getting her period. As her powers grow, she struggles to cope with the bullies at school and her religious fanatic of a mother.
Carrie was then remade in 2013 with Chloë Grace Moretz in the leading role. The reboot wasn’t nearly as critically as successful as the original, though it did make $84.8 million at the box office against a $30 million budget.
As a movie based on King’s first published novel, Carrie is an important landmark in the legend’s history. But it almost never happened in the first place.
In King’s autobiography On Writing, he revealed how he’d almost thrown away the first pages of the novel after revisiting them in “disgust.”
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“The next night, when I came home from school, my wife Tabby had the pages,” he explained. “She’d spied them while emptying my waste-basket, had shaken the cigarette ashes off the crumpled balls of paper smoothed them out and sat down to read them. She wanted me to go on. She wanted to know the rest of the story.”
To see what else is out this month, check out all thenew Netflix releasesandnew Apple TV+ releases. You can also take a look at thebest upcoming horror movies in 2025, and see what we voted as themost violent horror movies ever made.
