Tag: Doctor Sleep
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Stephen King’s Favorite Movies: 25 Films the Author Wants You to See
Stephen King is a tastemaker of terror. Ever since breaking out with “Carrie” — the sordid tale of a telekinetic teenager adapted into Brian De Palma’s 1976 classic starring Sissy Spacek — the horror author has had a hand in shaping our nightmares.With dozens of novels, novellas, and short stories to his name, the 75-year-old…
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‘Fall of the House of Usher’ Images – Mark Hamill Investigates Murder
You know it’s the spooky season when Mike Flanagan returns for another round of fantastic storytelling. While we’ve loved his feature-length projects like Oculus, Hush, and Doctor Sleep, the critically acclaimed filmmaker raked in an entirely new set of fans when he began teaming up with Netflix on a handful of horror series. What started…
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‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Poster Previews a Hauntingly Starry Cast
Mike Flanagan is one of the best names in modern horror. From The Haunting of Hill House to Midnight Mass to Doctor Sleep, the writer-director has been giving genre fans chills for the last decade. With the Halloween season right around the corner, Flanagan’s about to traumatize us one final time on Netflix with his…
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This Is Mike Flanagan’s Best Scene
Writer/director Mike Flanagan has become a prominent figure in the horror genre over the past decade with movies like Hush and Doctor Sleep, and his four Netflix original limited series: The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Midnight Club, with a fifth, The Fall of the House of…
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‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Sets Release Date, Gets New Images
Mike Flanagan is back and ready to put the chill into this spooky season with his series adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher. Just days after the man behind the successful big-screen makeovers of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game announced that work would still be moving forward on The Dark…
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‘Pet Sematary’ Celebrates 35th Anniversary With Retrospective Book
Stephen King is as popular as ever with his recent horror adaptations The Boogeyman and Doctor Sleep reminding moviegoers of the author’s devilish power. However, the golden era for King adaptations was in the 80s and there was no film more beloved than Pet Sematary. Based on the author’s equally treasured 1983 novel of the…
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‘Dead Reckoning’s Rebecca Ferguson Terrifies as This Stephen King Villain
A woman sings by a lake, dropping flowers into the water. Her soft-spoken voice is bewitching as a young girl walks up. There doesn’t seem to be any worry of stranger danger, the woman, Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson), isn’t scary. When Rose grabs the little girl’s hand, drawing blood, it’s already too late. “Honey,…
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‘The Shining’ Prequel That We’ll Never Get to See
In 2019, horror mastermind Mike Flanagan released one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever: Doctor Sleep. A sequel to The Shining, Flanagan had the tough job of creating a sequel to a film that King himself disliked while also respecting King’s vision from the novels. But that was not the only thing planned by…
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How Alan Arkin Sheltered Abigail Breslin From Little Miss Sunshine’s Adult Language
It’s sometimes hard to comprehend whether child actors in R-rated films can be shielded from the adult themes in the films that surround them. At 12 years old, Chloë Grace Moretz was instructed in “Kick-Ass” to repeat nearly every curse word that exists, and a few years later, Jacob Tremblay appeared in one of horror’s…
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What We Can Expect If The Midnight Club Gets A Season 2
Mike Flanagan is known for his heady, deeply emotional ventures into horror, with projects like “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “Midnight Mass,” “Doctor Sleep,” and “Gerald’s Game” all generating massive fan bases and solidifying Flanagan as a modern horror master. His latest venture takes him out of his usual realm…