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.
FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR COMES A TALE OF NEIGHBORS BROUGHT TOGETHER TO CONFRONT AN ANCIENT EVIL....All at once.HUSH, HUSH…They all come to pinnacle apartments. The oracular activist/terrorist, the displaced drag queen, the sexually and racially liberated scion, the seemingly immortal mojo luna woman, the war-ravaged comfort woman, the patient and loveless caretaker, the son of a lynched man, the mother-sister to her own child, the sadistic charmer, the time traveling drug dealer, the well-trained wife and mother, the child who sees them all; and the child only a few can see.SOMEBODY’S CALLING MY NAME…They come for money, escape, salvation, revenge, prey, and even hope. HUSH, HUSH…They come covered in blood, cast from blood, natural aeaeae blood.SOMEBODY’S CALLING MY NAME...Dragging memories and unknown connections and spirits and brutality and love, they come.OH, MY LORDInto poverty and madness, led by African gods and goddesses, dressed as neighbors, who dance freely through the streets, they come.OH, MY LORDThey come, called to this place, a place that like a hymnal christens them to respond to the query:WHAT SHALL I DO? They come. All at once.
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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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