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But Carrie’s carefully controlled world starts to unravel after her father unexpectedly dies. Suddenly, she’s forced to leave the only environment she knows and enter public high school for the first time. And, well, we all know high school can be brutal enough without supernatural abilities entering the equation.

As Carrie attempts to navigate her new surroundings, classmate Chris Hargensen (Alison Thornton) makes things even worse by launching an Instagram account called “Carrie Red” to publicly humiliate her. Between the online bullying, social pressure and her mother’s increasingly suffocating beliefs, Carrie discovers she has telekinetic powers that are becoming harder to control.

This is actually the fifth major screen adaptation or reimagining of King’s story. The original 1976 film starred Sissy Spacek, followed by The Rage: Carrie 2 in 1999, a 2002 television movie starring Angela Bettis, and the 2013 theatrical remake with Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore.

And while that 2013 version landed somewhere in the middle with critics and audiences, this latest adaptation appears to be having a much better run. It currently holds an 86 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, with viewers also flooding social media with praise.