Fall of the House of Usher: A Poe Deep Dive

Photo: Netflix Mike Flanagan has become one of the most valuable assets in the Netflix stable. After the success of The Haunting and Midnight Mass, he announced that his next…

Midnight Mass: A Shepherd and His Flock

Hamish Linklater. Photo: Netflix In 2014, Mike Flanagan was not the renowned horror director we know now. He had an idea for a TV show that he was pitching, but…

The Haunting 

Two classic ghost stories, ”The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson and ”The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James, were loosely adapted for two seasons of this horror…

Doctor Sleep 

Three decades after the events in The Shining, Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is a recovering alcoholic who is contacted telepathically by a girl (Kyliegh Curran); together they face a lethal…

E.T. The Thing from Another World

Henry Thomas. Photo: Universal When Richard Attenborough accepted his two Oscars for Gandhi in 1983, he acknowledged the fact that he had just beaten one of the favorites. "I was…