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The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

October 16, 2020 david.s.smith 0

THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR Mike Flanagan’s projects often come with high expectations. Aside from the seal of quality that is his own name, his recent work has included two super-tricky Stephen King adaptations, with […]

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LATEST NEWS: Flanagan to tackle yet another one of Stephen King’s work

May 9, 2020 Ross Hughes 0

b There is something quite good and exciting for a horror fan to hear that Mike Flanagan is once more going to tackle one of Stephen King’s novels.  Having successfully brought Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s […]

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LATEST NEWS: Flanagan and Tong to adapt The Midnight Club for Netflix

May 6, 2020 Ross Hughes 0

  Having tackled House On Haunted Hill and brought huge success for Netflix, Mike Flanagan is teaming up with Once Upon a Time’s Leah Fong to adapt Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel The Midnight Club into a […]

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3 HOUR DIRECTOR’S CUT OF ‘DOCTOR SLEEP’ COMING!

December 19, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

The long in coming sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, did decent box office and garnered mostly good reviews. I mostly liked it until the final act. Well, following in the footsteps of Midsommar, Doctor […]

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STEPHEN KING SAYS THAT ‘DOCTOR SLEEP’ REDEEMS EVERYTHING HE DISLIKED ABOUT ‘THE SHINING’

November 6, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

It’s well known that Stephen King doesn’t like Stanley Kubrick’s movie adaptation of his novel The Shining. He doesn’t like it for all sorts of reasons, some of them a bit odd, such as claiming […]

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Doctor Sleep (2019)

November 1, 2019 david.s.smith 0

DOCTOR SLEEP (2019) Directed by Mike Flanagan Talk about a tough act to follow. Though it’s maybe not my favourite, pound for pound, I reckon Stanley Kubrick’s take on The Shining is perhaps the single […]

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Too Scared to Watch THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE?

October 24, 2019 Bat 0

Do you love Halloween, but are not the biggest horror fan? Do you want to get in the mood, but are too scared of being scared? Well… The Haunting of Hill House might be a […]

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LATEST TRAILERS: ‘DOCTOR SLEEP’

September 11, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

Well it feeds a bit too much off nostalgia for my liking with its repeating of much imagery from The Shining, but many seem to be excited by the new Doctor Sleep trailer that broke […]

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‘THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE’ GETTING EXTENDED EDITION RELEASE ON BLU-RAY

August 20, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

This is great news for those who still like to properly own the TV and movies that they like. The much-acclaimed Netflix series The Haunting Of Hill House is getting a Blu-ray and DVD release. […]

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MIKE FLANAGAN TALKS ‘MIDNIGHT MASS’ AND ‘THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR’….WHICH WILL BE “UNBELIEVABLY SCARY”, HE SAYS

August 14, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

Mike Flanagan is certainly a busy man these days, and he recently spoke to  ‘Arrow In The Head’ about his next two projects for Netflix. First up for discussing was Midnight Mass which will follow: […]

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MIKE FLANAGAN AND NETFLIX DOING ANOTHER HORROR SERIES CALLED ‘MIDNIGHT MASS’

July 1, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

Netflix and Mike Flanagan [who presumably doesn’t care if his stuff doesn’t get released on DVD/Blu-ray] certainly seem to be a team as, in addition to The Haunting Of Hill House‘s sequel The Haunting Of […]

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LATEST TRAILERS: ‘DOCTOR SLEEP’

June 14, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

The first full trailer for Doctor Sleep is here, and it seems that it’s not just going to be a sequel to the novel of The Shining like Stephen King’s book was, it’s also going […]

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‘THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE’ SEQUEL WILL ADAPT ‘THE TURN OF THE SCREW’….AND THAT’S NOT THE ONLY NEW VERSION COMING

February 22, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

News has recently come through that, following the success of their TV series of The Haunting Of Hill House, Netflix has entered into a multi-year overall deal with writer/director Mike Flanagan and executive producer Trevor […]

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DOCTOR SLEEP RELEASE DATE MOVED FORWARD

February 4, 2019 Dr Lenera 0

It’s far more common for release dates to be moved back, not forward, and especially these days with Blu-ray and DVD releases since the mindbogglingly stupid decision to shut down two disc producing plants which […]

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‘THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE’ COULD BECOME AN ANTHOLOGY SERIES

November 28, 2018 Dr Lenera 0

I’ve only just gotten around to begin watching Mike Flanagan’s TV series The Haunting of Hill House, and am suitably impressed after seeing the first two episodes. Our reviewer David S. Smith raved about it […]

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The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

October 21, 2018 david.s.smith 0

At the bottom of this review, I’m going to call The Haunting of Hill House one of the best individual seasons of TV I’ve ever seen. If you want to avoid all spoilers, stop here, […]

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‘THE SHINING’ SEQUEL ‘DOCTOR SLEEP’ GETS ITS RELEASE DATE

May 25, 2018 Dr Lenera 0

The film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining sequel is moving ahead as Doctor Sleep secures a release date. Several websites have reported that Warner Bros has confirmed that the sequel is scheduled for release […]

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MIKE FLANAGAN TO DIRECT ‘THE SHINING’ SEQUEL ‘DOCTOR SLEEP’

January 29, 2018 Dr Lenera 0

Just after the release his very fine adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, Mike Flanagan [Oculus, Hush, Before I Wake] was asked which King novel he’d love to adapt the most. His answer? Doctor Sleep, […]

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