mike flanagan Archives - Movies In Focus

Behind The Scenes: Ewan McGregor & Director Mike Flanagan On The Set Of DOCTOR SLEEP

Set forty years after Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) tried to kill his family in The Overlook Hotel, Doctor Sleep follows a grown-up Danny Torrance (played by Ewan McGregor) who is still afflicted by the supernatural abilities, which he calls The [...]

May 15, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Mike Flanagan’s ABSENTIA

Absentia is an intriguing low budget horror film that raises some interesting questions. Mike Flanagan’s film was originally funded by a Kickstarter campaign and while it might not be slick it does feature enough strong images to help it [...]

September 2, 2020

Doctor Sleep Filmmaker Bringing Stephen King’s REVIVAL To The Screen

Doctor Sleep writer/director Mike Flanagan is adapting Stephen King novel, Revival for the big screen. The 2014 book is one of King’s finest works over the last decade, and it follows the relationship between a minister and musician as [...]

May 9, 2020

Blu-ray Review: DOCTOR SLEEP Is A Worthwhile Sequel To The Shining

It was incredibly brave for the mighty Stephen King to write a follow-up to his seminal 1977 novel The Shining. The tale (and Stanley Kubrick’s film) has sunk deep into horror lore and there was a tremendous amount of expectation placed on Doctor [...]

March 7, 2020

Heeeeere’s Danny! DOCTOR SLEEP ‘Danny’s Journey’ Featurette

Movies In Focus has read Stephen King‘s Doctor Sleep – and while it’s not a patch on the mastery of The Shining, it’s still a fun read. I’m very intrigued about how director Mike Flanagan joins the dots between this [...]

October 9, 2019

Not To Be Overlooked: Trailer For Stephen King Adaptation DOCTOR SLEEP

The Shining is one of the great Stephen King books and Stanley Kubrick’s film is one of the finest adaptations of a King novel – even though it’s not a true adaptation of the book. Doctor Sleep, the follow-up novel to The Shining is an [...]

June 15, 2019

Trailer For Netflix’s THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Mike Flanagan directs The Haunting of Hill House, the new Netflix series adaptation of Shriley Jackson’s novel. The book has been adapted before – first as Robert Wise’s The Haunting in 1963, and then in 1999 by Jan de Bont (boy, I [...]

September 19, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Get Some Haunted Mirror Action With OCULUS

Horror is a genre directed at young people. The genre is successful because it excites, scares and thrills its audience. It’s a genre that has a target audience which is oddly teenage girls – they love to be scared. Boys take their [...]

October 25, 2014

Blu-Ray Review: ABSENTIA Holds Its Own As A Horror

June 14, 2014