Tag: Mike Flanagan
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The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe is eternal
The Fall of the House of Usher from writer and director Mike Flanagan is another horror classic from this prolific creator of horror. This series is based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s short story titles are used as episode titles, with events in the episodes harking back to their macabre and gory…
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The Midnight Club, ghost stories, mysteries, and horror
The Midnight Club is a YA series so chock-full of ghosts, angels, devils, mysteries, Greek myths, and jump scares that it almost turns into fun rather than horror. It deals with some heavy topics because the main characters are terminally ill and live together in a hospice.
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Review: Midnight Mass
Midnight Mass is the latest from writer and director Mike Flanagan. Like his two successful series before this one – The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Haunting of Hill House – this series is a foray into horror. I didn’t think Midnight Mass was as good as the first two. You’ll find the series…
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Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor
The Haunting of Bly Manor can be considered horror – a ghost story. More accurately it should be called stories about love, life, death, guilt, sacrifice, and chicanery. It’s streaming on Netflix.
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Review: The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House will be discussed and analyzed for years to come. It’s that kind of work of art. Watching it is like peeling an onion – you think you’ve found the meat, but there’s always one more layer. You dig deeper and deeper in tighter and tighter circles until the whole opens…