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‘The Life of Chuck’ TIFF Review – Mike Flanagan’s Uplifting Celebation of Life At the End of the World

September 7, 2024 Meagan Navarro Mike Flanagan, Reviews, Stephen King, The Life of Chuck, TIFF 2024

It’s not the horror that makes prolific author Stephen King‘s works so compelling, though it certainly helps, but rather his talent for capturing the nuanced multitudes of the human condition. His three-dimensional characters leap off the pages and into Constant Readers’ hearts, ensuring their emotional journeys resonate with or without horror. It’s something writer/director Mike […]

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Mike Flanagan Aims to Make ‘The Exorcist’ His Scariest Movie Yet

September 5, 2024 John Squires Mike Flanagan, Movies, The Exorcist

David Gordon Green’s planned The Exorcist trilogy, which began with the poorly received The Exorcist: Believer, is no more, with Blumhouse pivoting down a bold new path instead. Mike Flanagan will be directing the next installment in the franchise for Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, and it’s already been dated for theatrical release on March 13, […]

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Scream Factory Brings Mike Flanagan’s ‘Hush’ to 4K Blu-ray With New Black & White Cut Included!

September 5, 2024 John Squires Home Video, Hush, Mike Flanagan, Movies, scream factory

Mike Flanagan’s home invasion horror movie Hush (2016) made its debut on Digital courtesy of Shout! Studios just last week, the film finally available to watch again after disappearing from streaming for the past couple years. The film has also never received a physical media release, but we’ve learned that’s all changing thanks to Scream Factory later […]

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‘The Life of Chuck’ – First Images Preview Mike Flanagan’s Next Stephen King Movie

September 3, 2024 John Squires Mike Flanagan, Movies, Stephen King, The Life of Chuck

Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep) returns to the world of Stephen King with The Life of Chuck, and Vanity Fair has shared a gallery of first-look images this week. Tom Hiddleston plays the title character in the film, based on the 2020 Stephen King short story of the same name. The film will World Premiere at the […]

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Mike Flanagan’s ‘Hush’ Now Available on Digital for the Very First Time

August 27, 2024 John Squires Home Video, Hush, Mike Flanagan, Movies

Mike Flanagan’s home invasion horror movie Hush has been unavailable to stream for a while now, and with no physical media release available at this time, well, the Netflix movie had seemingly dropped off the face of the planet entirely. This week, however, it’s back. Hush was just unleashed for the first time on Digital this morning […]

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Mike Flanagan’s ‘Hush’ Comes to Digital for the First Time in August!

July 18, 2024 John Squires Home Video, Hush, Mike Flanagan, Movies, Shout! Studios

It’s been eight years since the Netflix release of Mike Flanagan’s home invasion horror movie Hush, but it’s interesting to note that the film is no longer streaming on Netflix. In fact, it’s currently unavailable to stream or rent/purchase ANYWHERE, and we’ve also never gotten a physical media release. In other words, you cannot watch Hush at all right […]

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Mike Flanagan’s ‘Exorcist’ Movie Sets Appropriately Spooky 2026 Release Date

June 18, 2024 Meagan Navarro blumhouse, Mike Flanagan, Movies, The Exorcist

Friday the 13th seems like a nice day for an exorcism, right? Universal has set an appropriately spooky date for their new Exorcist movie from director Mike Flanagan, per Deadline. The new Exorcist movie from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek has been dated for theatrical release on March 13, 2026, an appropriately spooky and fitting Friday the 13th. While plot […]

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Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Life of Chuck’ Heads to Toronto International Film Festival

June 18, 2024 John Squires Mike Flanagan, Movies, Stephen King, The Life of Chuck, TIFF 2024, Toronto International Film Festival

Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep) is headed back into the world of Stephen King with The Life of Chuck, and the film has set its World Premiere this morning. The Toronto International Film Festival is getting ready to roll out the red carpets for its 49th edition from September 5–15, 2024, and we’ve learned this morning that Mike Flanagan’s The […]

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‘Hush’: Mike Flanagan Teases Streaming and Physical Release for His Home Invasion Movie

June 3, 2024 John Squires Hush, Kate Siegel, Mike Flanagan, Movies

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Mike Flanagan Officially Set to Write/Direct All New ‘Exorcist’ Film for Blumhouse

May 29, 2024 Meagan Navarro blumhouse, Mike Flanagan, Movies, The Exorcist

It’s official: Mike Flanagan is set to write, direct, and produce the next Exorcist film for Blumhouse and Universal. But don’t expect a sequel to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer; Flanagan will offer a radical new take on The Exorcist. To reiterate, the new film will tell an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and […]

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Mike Flanagan In Talks to Helm the Next ‘Exorcist’ Movie

May 2, 2024 Meagan Navarro blumhouse, Mike Flanagan, Movies, The Exorcist, The Exorcist: Deceiver, topnews

Recent comments from producer Jason Blum suggested that a retool was in order when last year’s The Exorcist: Believer wasn’t as successful as Blumhouse and Universal hoped. That certainly seems to be the case, though, as Deadline reports tonight that Mike Flanagan is in talks to direct the next Exorcist movie. Director David Gordon Green was initially […]

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Richard Brake Appears in New Episode of Bloody FM’s “The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings”

February 14, 2024 Lauren Shand anthology, BD Podcasts, Bloody FM, David Dastmalchian, Devon Sawa, Jocelin Donahue, Kate Siegel, Mike Flanagan, Podcasts, Richard Brake, the antiquarium of sinister happenings

The force of nature that is actor Richard Brake (3 From Hell / 31 / Mandy / Barbarian / the upcoming The Last Stop in Yuma County) unleashes terror on a new episode of Bloody FM’s new horror anthology pod, The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings. A Story to Scare My Son brings to life the disturbing […]

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10 Directors Who Should Take Over ‘The Exorcist: Deceiver’

January 17, 2024 Daniel Kurland Aaron Moorhead, David Bruckner, David Gordon Green, Editorials, Eli Roth, featured, Jennifer Kent, John Carpenter, Justin Benson, Kyle Edward Ball, Mike Flanagan, Movies, Sam Raimi, Scott Derrickson, The Exorcist, The Exorcist: Believer, The Exorcist: Deceiver, Ti West, topnews

Some horror properties naturally lend themselves to incessant sequels, while others seem to will themselves into existence through sheer will, as if they’re the result of a demonic possession. William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, while over 50 years old, is still considered to be one of the scariest movies of all-time. Various Exorcist sequels and even […]

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Stephen King 2024 Preview: The Books We’ll Read, The Movies We’ll See [The Losers’ Club Podcast]

January 6, 2024 Michael Roffman Carrie, christine, cujo, Mike Flanagan, Mr. Mercedes, Podcasts, revival, Stephen King, The Life of Chuck

Seven years, eight seasons! The journey continues… Join Losers Michael Roffman, Randall Colburn, and Jenn Adams as they share their highlights from 2023, which includes an official audio drama and a live recording, before previewing all the books, movies, and events they’re covering throughout 2024. There will be Carrie, there will be Christine, there will be […]

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‘Oculus’ 10 Years Later: Mike Flanagan’s Early Days of Nihilistic Horror

December 11, 2023 Jenn Adams Editorials, Mike Flanagan, Movies, Oculus

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Oculus and The Fall of the House of Usher. Of all the horror creators currently working in the business, few have the ability to tear at our heartstrings like Mike Flanagan. Beginning with the 2018 hit miniseries The Haunting of Hill House, the director’s horrific Netflix shows are just […]

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