Before I Wake (2016)
Directed by Mike Flanagan
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
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Directed by Mike Flanagan ("Gerald's Game," "Before I Wake," "Oculus," "Still Life").
According to most sources, filmmaker Flanagan (maker of such shockeroos as Before I Wake) secured King’s blessing by combining plot turns from the novels with Kubrick’s frightscape.
As staged by director Mike Flanagan, whose feature career consists mostly of horror titles — including Before I Wake and Gerald’s Game — these hunts generate distress given the children’s dreadful fates as nothing more than ghoul food.
His track record—ABSENTIA, OCULUS, HUSH, OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, BEFORE I WAKE, GERALD’S GAME, and The Haunting Of Hill House (season one anyways)—is full of more hits than misses and even his “weakest” project has at least a scene, image, performance, or some element that is truly captivating and haunts the minds of viewers for years.