2016: The Year Mike Flanagan Established Himself as One of the New Masters of Horror
Matt Konopka looks at the year 2016 & how it established Mike Flanagan as a filmmaker through Hush, Before I Wake and Ouija: Origin of Evil.
Angela Sayers is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Convinced by her controlling brother to stop taking her medication, Angela's world unravels just a little more when she discovers she can communicate with the dead. It's not a welcome revelation. Her dead mother was driven mad by this gift. Eager to capitalize on their mother's fame as a medium, her brother forces Angela to publically become the unwilling heir apparent. Soon, Sayers Medium Services is shamelessly exploiting the fears of the most vulnerable -- the elderly, the feeble-minded, the grieving -- for obscene profit. Uncertain if her increasingly fragile state of mind is caused by lack of medication, sleep deprivation, or guilt, Angela endures a plague of sleepless nights. If she's going to have any semblance of a future, she knows she must find a way to confront her own demons -- including the fear that it's all in her head.When they are hired to cleanse an old orphanage that is genuinely haunted, it's up to Angela to get everyone out alive. But with reality slipping away, can she escape the prison of her mind long enough to save them?
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Matt Konopka looks at the year 2016 & how it established Mike Flanagan as a filmmaker through Hush, Before I Wake and Ouija: Origin of Evil.
Let me tell you about my relationship with Mike Flanagan, because it is important context for everything I am about to say. I watched Oculus alone at...
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