Director Mike Flanagan is a bit of a two-hit wonder. Not unlike Rob Zombie, who hit it out of the park with The Devil’s Rejects and House of 1,000 Corpses, but whose other work is largely forgettable, Flanagan has directed inspiring Stephen King-linked work like Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, but has largely faltered elsewhere.Continue reading “Hush”
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P2
The best horrors exploit limited space, in both senses of the term in Alien, but also coeds confined to their sorority house in Black Christmas, spelunkers in The Descent or the protagonist in P2, stuck in an underground parking garage on Christmas Eve. P2 exploits twin fears: being abandoned and stuck in a subterranean hell.Continue reading “P2”
