{"id":44510,"date":"2024-07-20T02:05:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T06:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44510"},"modified":"2024-07-20T02:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T06:05:56","slug":"five-favorite-mike-flanagan-productions-so-far-fantasia-film-festival-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/20\/five-favorite-mike-flanagan-productions-so-far-fantasia-film-festival-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Favorite Mike Flanagan Productions\u2014So Far [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This year, Fantasia will be awarding their 2024 Cheval Noir career award to U.S. filmmaker Mike Flanagan. \u201cFor his imaginative and heartfelt horror visions; boundary-breaking achievements in making soulful, character-driven genre television commercially viable without compromises; and the extraordinary work he\u2019s done in popularizing landmark authors to a new generation, While it may strike some as odd to bestow an achievement award to an artist who\u2019s almost certainly not yet reached a mid-career place, Flanagan has been so extraordinarily prolific and consistently brilliant in his output that the filmmaker has already accomplished several lifetimes of creation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In honor of his stellar achievement, here are five of My Favorite Mike Flagan productions \u2013 so far. As he has a long, rewarding life of filmmaking and film curating ahead of him, I imagine this list will look different in fifteen years.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
\n<\/strong>2014\u2019s \u201cOuija\u201d was a flat, dull and lackluster thriller. Enter Mike Flanagan who signed on to direct the prequel and give it a much needed shot of adrenaline. \u201cOrigin of Evil\u201d Is a period piece set in the fifties that tells the story of the Ouija board we learn about in the original film, and actually spends time making sense of plot points that felt incomplete or incoherent in the original movie. What\u2019s more is \u201cOrigin of Evil\u201d is actually really creepy and ends on a memorably spooky final scene.<\/p>\n

Absentia (2011)
\n<\/strong>One of Mike Flanagan\u2019s earliest horror films, this considerably low budget thriller channels the likes of Lovecraft and Cronenberg to build on a reality shifting horror mystery. I originally emailed Flanagan in 2011 requesting a screener for review and loved the flavor he brought to the genre. \u201cAbsentia\u201d has all the interesting hallmarks of his future projects, and it\u2019s a great debut for folks that must see everything Mike Flanagan directed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hush (2016)
\n<\/strong>Flanagan\u2019s Netflix film is a wonderful example of a home invasion film that unleashes impossible stakes on a likable protagonist. Flanagan\u2019s wife, actress Kate Siegel, is great in the role of a deaf and mute author who retreats to a cabin for a weekend to write her book. When she\u2019s stalked by a masked maniac, she has to rely on her wits and her other senses if she wants to survive. \u201cHush\u201d is highly acclaimed and an absolute horror gem with some great twists and bang up performances. It\u2019s become somewhat infamous for not being on physical media despite fans begging for it, but current news indicate we just may see a physical media release very, very soon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Doctor Sleep (2019)
\n<\/strong>Sadly, this was a flop upon its initial release, which pains me to say since \u201cDoctor Sleep\u201d is a brilliant and excellent sequel to \u201cThe Shining.\u201d Stephen King has made it abundantly clear that he hates Stanley Kubrick\u2019s version of his novel, so Mike Flanagan uses the presence of \u201cThe Shining\u201d as more of an amorphous specter that channels both the novel and movie. Meanwhile we\u2019re given a fantastic reunion with Danny Torrance who does battle with a traveling rove of vampires that feed on \u201cThe Shining\u201d from their victims. \u201cDoctor Sleep\u201d is a creepy, weird, but stellar film and I\u2019m saddened we\u2019ll never get well deserved follow ups to Danny Torrance\u2019s saga.<\/p>\n

The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
\n<\/strong>Mike Flanagan proves he\u2019s not only an ace filmmaker, but an ace television director, to boot. \u201cThe Haunting of Hill House\u201d very well could have been a dull and droning supernatural drama. Instead, it\u2019s masterfully crafted, beautifully composed, and features some of the most shocking and mind-blowing twists and turns ever put to film. Deep down though this re-imagining is a remarkable tale about family, and grief. Flanagan shows here that he\u2019s more than capable of delivering episodic scares and a slow boil horror story that explodes when you least expect it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year the Fantasia International Film Festival runs in Montreal from July 18th<\/sup> to August 4th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, Fantasia will be awarding their 2024 Cheval Noir career award to U.S. filmmaker Mike Flanagan. \u201cFor his imaginative and heartfelt horror visions; boundary-breaking achievements in making soulful, character-driven genre television commercially viable without compromises; and the extraordinary work he\u2019s done in popularizing landmark authors to a new generation, While it may strike some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,9],"tags":[64,359,477,982],"class_list":["post-44510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-list-junkies","tag-adaptation","tag-filmmaking","tag-horror","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44553,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44510\/revisions\/44553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}