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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2023 16:41:21 GMT
Anyone else a big fan of his work?
"A good ghost story should live in your mind, not on the screen"
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Post by politicidal on Jan 18, 2023 18:07:37 GMT
I really enjoyed his 'Haunting of Hill House' series and I quite liked Ouija: Origin of Evil.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2023 18:49:37 GMT
"We pulled all these seemingly disparate characters together with waking up at the same time to the sound of Nell's neck snapping"
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Post by James on Jan 18, 2023 18:53:00 GMT
I'm quite a fan. My favourite of his is probably Gerald's Game.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2023 19:15:40 GMT
I'm quite a fan. My favourite of his is probably Gerald's Game. Apart from the Moonlight Man, and the nod to Oculus, I don't rate Gerald's game at all.
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Post by gbone on Jan 18, 2023 21:07:24 GMT
Became a fan when I saw Absentia way back when. Impressed what he was able to do with a tiny budget. Then I found his original short for Oculus back in the 2000's. Liked mostly everything he's done since.
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Post by forca84 on Jan 19, 2023 4:16:24 GMT
I liked "Occulus", "Doctor Sleep", and "Absentia". But it's gonna be a looong time before I watch "The Haunting of Hill House" again. Talk about deep and depressing.
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Post by movielover on Jan 19, 2023 5:32:45 GMT
I love Oculus, and I like Ouija: Origin of Evil, Hush, and Before I Wake. Absentia was decent. I hated Gerald’s Game.
I need to watch his mini-series The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 19, 2023 12:59:52 GMT
I liked "Occulus", "Doctor Sleep", and "Absentia". But it's gonna be a looong time before I watch "The Haunting of Hill House" again. Talk about deep and depressing. Might have been depressing, but also really quite exquisitely well made. Midnight Mass is a similar in that way. It's may not be fun, but it's excellent.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2023 13:56:03 GMT
I liked "Occulus", "Doctor Sleep", and "Absentia". But it's gonna be a looong time before I watch "The Haunting of Hill House" again. Talk about deep and depressing. Might have been depressing, but also really quite exquisitely well made. Midnight Mass is a similar in that way. It's may not be fun, but it's excellent. Same can be said for The Haunting of Bly Manor... A bit deep and depressing, but well made with some neat ghosts and ideas. Not seen Midnight Mass yet... Definitely on my 'to watch' list.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 19, 2023 14:57:48 GMT
Might have been depressing, but also really quite exquisitely well made. Midnight Mass is a similar in that way. It's may not be fun, but it's excellent. Same can be said for The Haunting of Bly Manor... A bit deep and depressing, but well made with some neat ghosts and ideas. Not seen Midnight Mass yet... Definitely on my 'to watch' list. I thought Bly Manor was a little disappointing by comparison. I kind of chalk that up to the fact that Flanagan didn't direct most of the episodes, but also I didn't care for some if the writing at times. Still way above average, and there's a lot of good stuff in it, particularly some of the performances, but of the series he's done it ranks lower than Hill House and Midnight Mass. Same for Midnight Club, although I was interested in what they were gonna do with another season. He was attached to a film adaptation of Stephen King's Revival for a while. Maybe that will come back around, but I was looking forward to that. Now it seems like his Dark Tower series, if it ultimately actually happens, will be taking up most of his time.
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Post by politicidal on Feb 25, 2023 3:29:07 GMT
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Post by masterofallgoons on Feb 25, 2023 13:38:16 GMT
Saw that too. More accurately, he wanted to pitch a Nightmare on Elm Street movie, but nobody knows where the rights are.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 19, 2023 16:23:40 GMT
He talks about his 'DOCTOR SLEEP' spinoff that was canned: I had a great thing for the Dick Hallorann movie, which I was so excited about, which is him as a young man starting in Derry and had a little overlap with IT. Because in the canon, little Richie Halloran has an encounter with Pennywise as a young man. Then it was gonna be this whole other thing where he joins the army and ends up trying to work in law enforcement in New Orleans in a heavily segregated police department and is up against a kind of a cousin to the True Knot. A killer who is specifically targeting people who shine, and this big battle there.
He would win the battle but lose the war and lose the people that he cared about and ended up opting for a quieter life away from all of it and taking this job making meals at this hotel in Colorado. It was gonna be awesome. They're gonna open with Carl Lumbly as Dick Halloran cleaning up the kitchen and getting ready for the winter because the winter caretaker and his family are due to arrive. They're saying 'You got to be ready to meet them and give them a tour.'
Then he goes up to Room 237 and has a weird thing with the bathtub and it flashes back to all the stuff in his life. Then at the end of the story we come back to him in the Overlook and they say the caretakers here. He'd come downstairs to meet them in the lobby and you think it's the Torrance family, but it isn't. It's Delbert Grady and his twin daughters and his wife. And you realize you're seeing the beginning of that story. On Monday they evaluated the box office performance and by Tuesday those (spinoffs) were dead. I understood why they they couldn't proceed on those with with the box office that we did. It made sense. It was heartbreaking. It made sense. But yeah, that's all kind of gone.screenrant.com/doctor-sleep-spinoff-pennwyise-crossover-scrapped-creator-explained/
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 19, 2023 18:26:37 GMT
That plot summary for the Halloran biopic almost sounds like the new Dracula film. Black protagonist facing notorious literary pale murderer.
There's not much variety in story types.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2023 18:35:29 GMT
I've gone off Mike Flanagan a bit since finally watching Doctor Sleep... It's shite 👎
A low rent knock off of 'Near Dark', without the charm, humour, or characters you care about in Near Dark.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Mar 19, 2023 20:22:06 GMT
I've been underwhelmed by everything he has made and find his popularity perplexing.
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