If you love horror and you haven’t checked out 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mike Flanagan’s work yet, you’re missing out. Flanagan has created and directed some 𝕴of the finest horror to ever grace , and some of my favourite horror anthologies ever. He started his career with features like Absentia, Oculus, Hush and Before I Wake, and later directed the sequel to ꦛThe Shining, Doctor Sleep.
My favourite works of his, though, are the ones he&rꦛsquo;s made for Netflix, like The Haunting💞 of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, both loose modern day adaptations of literary horror classics (Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, respectively). He also made Midnight Mass and The Midnight Club, and his work hasn’t failed to impress me yet.
What I love most about Fla﷽nagan’s catalogue is his attention to character. His treatment o🃏f the characters in The Haunting of Hill House, in particular, reminded me of one of my favourite horror films, Hereditary. Each family member in the series gets their own episode, delving into their experiences in the house and how they felt growing up, explaining why they are the way they are as adults. It handles tough, complex issues like trauma, addiction, and mental illness with grace and a surprisingly deft hand, and earned itself praise from the likes of Stephen King, who called it “close to a work of genius”, and Quentin Tarantino, who said it was his favourite Netflix series.
Flanagan is excellent at family dramas, which is why I’m so excited for his new upcoming Netflix show, The Fall of the House of Usher. Like some of his previous work, it’s loosely based on yet another literary classic adapted for the modern day: the horror short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. Also like his previous work, the series seems inspired by, but not a direct adaptation of, its source material. The horror drama ex♏plores the Usher family, and how its patriarch 🌺Roderick Usher, the CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical company, has to face his dark past when his children start to die in brutal ways.
The trailer was released yesterday, and is full of over-the-top campy horror and gore. There’s dramatic music, glowing eyes in the dark, bodies dropping, what appears to be melting skin, smeared blood, scream queen-worthy wails of terror, gouged-out eyeballs… I could go on. And with camp, comes humour. As cast member Carla Gugino told Netflix, “It’s batshit crazy in t🅺he best possible way… It has quite a lot of very dark humor, but also really touc🐠hes the soul.” I don’t doubt it.
The trailer makes it look like it’ll be full of laughs, but be warned: Flanagan kills at jumpscares. In fact, the first 🧸episode of The Midnight Club had so many that it broke the Guinness World Record for most scripted jump-scares in an episode of television. As Flanagan himself put it in an interview with , “It’s wild. It is colorful and dark and blood-soaked and wicked and funny, and aggressive and scary and hilarious.” The Fall of the House of Usher will premiere October 12 on Netflix, just in time for a Halloween watch party.