Variety described her acting inJug Face as "a fine performance", and The New York Times wrote of her acting in The Woman that it was "dexterously understated". In 2016 Carter wrote a piece for the Modern Horrors website in which she discussed a film role that she turned down due to concerns for her safety.
She is a fan of horror and science fiction. In a 2016 interview with SciFiNow, Carter said "If you say you don’t like horror, it just means that you haven’t found the right movie." In 2019, Carter explained that she became a horror fan because she watchedhorror films on VHS with her father.