Gerald's Game (2017)
Directed by Mike Flanagan
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
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Flanagan, who previously adapted King's supposedly unfilmable Gerald's Game, is definitely one to watch, whether he's tackling King or not.
Directed by Mike Flanagan ("Gerald's Game," "Before I Wake," "Oculus," "Still Life").
Screenwriter/director Mike Flanagan already has a proven relationship with author Stephen King having successfully adapted Gerald’s Game into a particularly unsettling feature.
The difference here is that writer and director Mike Flanagan (the fright maestro is responsible for the Netflix series Haunting of Hill House and one other Stephen King adaptation already in the underappreciated Gerald’s Game), adapting the 2013 book sequel of the same name, is blending that fan service with chills and substance.
Writer and director Mike Flanagan ( Gerald’s Game , Haunting of Hill House ) once again shows he is a master of storytelling and filmmaking.
The clever management of space and communication of interiority that brought Flanagan’s earlier King-adapted movie Gerald’s Game to life have inexplicably taken leave of him.
El realizador de Oculus y Ouija: El origen del mal tiene apetito por lo fantástico, y el filme abreva en tantos tarros de pintura que algunos terminan descoloreándose.
Directed and co-written by Mike Flanagan (“Oculus,” “Ouija: Origin of Evil”), along with his frequent collaborator Jeff Howard, “Gerald’s Game” is a study of repressed memories, childhood traumas, and just how far a person will go to survive.
Flanagan has made a habit of directing female protagonists in small spaces (Oculus and Hush both feature female protagonists confined to a single location, for example), and the parameters of Gerald’s Game allow him to do what he does best — explore his female characters while ratcheting up tension.
It’s hard to overlook some of the recurring themes in his work, beginning with 2011’s Absentia and all the way through the wildly imaginative Oculus, Hush (also on Netflix ) and Ouija: Origin of Evil.
While no less horrific at times, there’s a sense of personal growth and elegance that Gerald’s Game offers, which makes it all the more wonderful that Oculus and Hush director Mike Flanagan’s take on the film ends up being something truly special.
Fortunately, director Mike Flanagan has had ample practice in the art of the mindf**k with Oculus , and he manages to turn the necessarily more literal film adaptation into a waking nightmare.
Some are sprawling prestige dramas (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile), others lean into psychological terror (Misery, Gerald’s Game), and then there are the delightfully deranged oddities (Creepshow, Maximum Overdrive).