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Learn about the life and career of Mike Flanagan, an American horror director, writer, producer, and editor. He is known for his films Absentia, Oculus, Hush, Gerald's Game, and Doctor Sleep, and his Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass.
Mike Flanagan is a prolific horror filmmaker and TV creator, known for The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, and Midnight Mass. Learn about his life, career, achievements, and upcoming projects on IMDb.
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This is the official website of Mike Flanagan, writer/director of The Haunting of Bly Manor, Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Hill House, Geralds Game, Ouija; The Origin of Evil, Hush, Before I Wake, Oculus and Absentia.
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- 1 The Season Of Passage - TBD. Flanagan's third and final confirmed project is a movie based on Christopher Pike's 1992 sci-fi horror novel The Season of Passage.
- 2 The Dark Tower - TBD. In late 2022, Flanagan announced he'd purchased the rights to develop a television series based on King's The Dark Tower books, intending to spend several seasons adapting them.
- 3 The Life Of Chuck - TBD. While none of Flanagan's Amazon projects have official release dates, a movie based on Stephen King's short story "The Life of Chuck" is definitely happening.
- 'Midnight Mass' (2021) Even if Midnight Mass is the shortest series developed by Flanagan so far, it’s also the work that lingers the longer after the credits roll on the last episode.
- 'The Haunting of Hill House' (2018) With a fantastic cast that includes a team of children surprisingly capable of handling challenging scenes, The Haunting of Hill House charms audiences with the drama of a family trying to move on with their lives after living in a haunted house, which led to the suicide of the mother of five.
- 'Oculus' (2013) The best film in Flanagan’s career was only his second. After Absentia gathered a lot of public interest, even with the limited budget, Flanagan made a deal with Blumhouse to transform one of his student short films into a full feature.
- 'The Haunting of Bly Manor' (2020) The anthological sequel to The Haunting of Hill House repeats the success of the first miniseries by crafting an extremely satisfying narrative in which layered characters must face the ghosts of their own pasts.
Mike Flanagan is a prolific writer, director, and editor of feature films and television, and founder of Red Room Pictures. Flanagan entered into an exclusive overall deal with Amazon Studios in 2023 for television projects (after a similar exclusive deal with Netflix lasted from 2018-2022), and has produced feature films for Warner Bros ...
Jan 20, 2022 · SYFY WIRE lists and reviews all ten of the horror auteur's works, from Absentia to The Haunting of Bly Manor. Find out which ones made the cut and which ones missed the mark.