A new wave of interest is starting to grow around Stephen King’s Carrie, while Jordan Peele’s Get Out easily remains his best work even after all these years. With Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of the Stephen King book all set to release soon, Carrie will likely become even more mainstream.
However, before Carrie’s small-screen adaptation premieres, it is interesting to see how several new shows are channeling the same themes that it helped popularize in the horror genre.
Something Very Is Bad About To Happen Feels Like The Perfect Get Out & Carrie Combination
Netflix’s new horror thriller, Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, is unique in more ways than one. The show has also been earning acclaim from viewers and critics for bringing something unique to the table. However, at the same time, it seems reminiscent of Stephen King’s Carrie and Jordan Peele’s Get Out in more ways than one.
Just like Chris from Get Out, the show’s main character, Rachel, has an “outsider” dynamic with the world she ends up in. Similar to Chris, she sets out on a journey to visit her partner’s family with him. However, during the journey itself, she realizes that something is truly off. She even finds dead animals during this journey, which foreshadow what lies ahead.
While watching both Get Out and Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, you, as a viewer, anticipate something truly terrible before the final arc connects all dots.
Similar to Stephen King’s Carrie, the main character in the Netflix horror show also feels ostracized and cornered. She is even hinted to have traces of supernatural abilities, like Carrie. Just like Carrie reaches the end of her wits towards the end of the Stephen King book, Rachel also ultimately makes one massive decision that leads to disastrous and bloody consequences for the people around her.
Get Out, Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, and Carrie seem to riff on the same fear of being trapped in a room full of monsters as the only sane person. All three also have undertones of relatable social commentary. While Get Out focuses on racism, Carrie criticized bullying and religious repression.
Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen treads a similar path and focuses on themes surrounding the weight of commitment and the fear of losing one’s identity within relationships.
The Netflix Horror Show Is The Perfect Warm-Up Series For Mike Flanagan’s Carrie
Considering how Mike Flanagan’s Carrie adaptation is also on the horizon, it is hard not to see Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen as the perfect warm-up show before it. With its shared themes and story beats with the Stephen King story, the original Netflix horror show brings a unique spin on the familiar coming-of-age nightmare that Carrie so effectively defined.
Reports also suggest that Flanagan’s Carrie will be more accurate to the source material than all previous movie adaptations. It might even borrow the original book’s epistolary format and try to capture it on the small-screen.
If this is true, Flanagan’s Carrie could feel like a deeply personal and immersive portrayal of trauma, alienation, and suppressed rage. Since the emotional core of Netflix’s Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen also has similar ingredients, it comes off as the perfect predecessor to the upcoming Mike Flanagan show.
Owing to this, all fans of movies like Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Stephen King’s Carrie should watch the 8-part series on Netflix before Mike Flanagan’s next big horror series comes out.