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God. Just rewatched The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass. Rewatching The Haunting of Hill House rn. Going to watch The Midnight Club and The Fall of the House of Usher after this. Mike Flanagan, I love you. Just going insane over all of his work, each piece is so haunting and moving and amazing. You know how it is.
Midnight Mass / Frank Bidart
The GRIP Mike flanagan has on me should be studied
It's 2024 I think we're in que for another mike flanagan show...
NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT MIDNIGHT MASS
actually i'm not done talking about midnight mass. it's just something about the concept of 'what if divinity was corrupting'. what if you met an angel and it shed your blood for god, then its blood for you. what if divinity doesn't feel like a warm bath. what if divinity makes you cough up blood and foam at the mouth. what if god's touch make your eyes bloodshot and your organs rearrange themselves. what if you were god's favorite and even that didn't save you. or something idk
house of usher comes out next week so it feels like the right time to break out the old mike flanagan bingo board.
filled out to the best of my memory. love when a dude is obsessed with themes and imagery <3
La adaptación de 'La Torre Oscura' de Mike Flanagan obtiene el sello de aprobación de Stephen King
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La adaptación de 'La Torre Oscura' de Mike Flanagan obtiene el sello de aprobación de Stephen King
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´´La Caída de la Casa de Usher´´: Primeras Imágenes del Nuevo Horror de Mike Flanagan.
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Finaliza el Rodaje de "The Life of Chuck", la adaptación del relato de Stephen King que ha dirigido Mike Flanagan.
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God this show. Mike Flanagan the director that you are
the way midnight mass spent all of seven episodes showing us what faith and fanaticism looks like only to remind us what true faith looks like in the last five minutes of the episode, by showing us the people singing, the sheriff and his son praying at the beach and the monsignor and his love holding their daughter. the way the one who believed that she was the most faithful and righteous while actually being evil was the only one who didn’t make peace with her own death and tried to cling to life with claws and teeth.
they really said faith is not about idolatry, or blind belief, or even a big guy in the sky, it’s about community, and love, and the people who forget that and allow themselves to believe that they’re better than others will find themselves alone in the end.
Midnight Mass really went above and beyond to not only show true faith, but also true horror.
At the end of the day, the creature pruitt brought back wasn't the real monster at all. Bev Keane with her hypocritical idolatry, the mayor with his blind faith, Monsignor Pruitt with his selfish greed and one dimensional thoughts, even the other islanders' blind faith; those were the real monsters in the show
Just as true faith wasn't confined to the halls of a church, true horror wasn't the eildtrich monster at all
Excellent writing to juxtapose the horrors of fanaticism and religious propaganda against an actual monster; then using all these metaphors to show that faith is born from love and community
Truly the cherry on the top!
On the second viewing, I realized that House of Usher is also a story about how Boomers made a deal with the devil - an easy life with the consequences to be paid by future generations. Gen X got to reap the most benefits from this deal - got to live longer and get more established and see where they were supposed to be able to get before they got cut off at the knees. Millennials got less - struggling to establish themselves in careers when the world is falling apart, ending up in weird digital jobs like streaming video games or throwing parties, retreating into nihilistic hedonism to deal with it. And Gen Z - poor Gen Z may not even get started, so many of them struck down before they can even really live by war and climate change and gun violence and disease. They're young enough and innocent enough to see what's wrong with the world but not powerful enough to fix it. And then the Boomers sit back and complain about how it's everyone else's fault - that they're all greedy and lazy and the cause of their own destruction - and refuse to hand over power when they should, choosing instead to collapse the entire house around them in their senility.
So, I recently watched The Midnight Club and I saw a lot of people say that they don't like Ilonka and I get it. She doesn't make the best of decisions, but she is also a dying teen who is just trying to make the best of it.
I never disliked Ilonka for making bad decisions. It actually made sense for someone in her position and there is no guarantee I would not have done the same.
But it did annoy me that she never faces any consequences for it. Like when Sandra strikes out with Spence she makes up for it with her story …we see that she actually feels bad about it but when Ilonka is reprimanded by Stanton for the right reasons she gets angry and initially it was understandable, but we never see her realizing that it was still wrong to take Anya down to the basement no matter how she felt about it. When Sandra admitted to that intercom prank, we see the other characters looking somewhat pissed though they warm back up to her later but with Ilonka when she tells them about the murder ritual with Julia Jayne they all seem unaffected by it. We never see her feeling bad for being unreasonably rude to Katherine, in the moment I understood her, but we should have seen her regretting lashing out and I know she apologizes to Kevin but what she said to Katherine did not sit right with me...coz Katherine seemed like a genuinely nice person. We never see Tim's reaction to the ritual either though it was implied that Stanton discussed it with him. He wouldn't have yelled at Ilonka but he would have still talked to her about it. She should have acknowledged that taking herself and her other sick friends to an unclean basement full of mold and whatnot (as Sandra tells her) was wrong.
So, I think a lot of people disliked Ilonka not for making bad decisions but because she never took accountability for it especially when the other characters did. I feel like that would have added depth to her character.... her realizing that though she was smart she was not always right. Maybe they would have dealt with that in season 2 but I don't know.
Also Fuck cults and fuck cultists for manipulating and taking advantage of vulnerable people.
when will Mike Flanagan take responsibility and cover the cost for therapy to help me recover from the emotional trauma his shows inflicted
The Fall of the House of Usher
Started watching the show and it gave off the Flanagan version of Avengers Endgame vibes.
Also Verna is mothering and messy as hell
Also there is something Junji Ito-esque about the way the characters died.
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Five Nights at Freddy's the Movie (2023) cw: gore
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Mike Flanagan is so wild for this
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Prospero Usher makes me so uncomfortablee like omg what is this omega twink doing trying to act like an alpha
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Why is there a deep fried chicken leg in the family meeting
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The deaths of Roderick and Madeline Usher has got to be the most horrifying ending I have ever seen in any tv show. Just the buildup to the reveal was terrifying and the reveal of Madeline is so fucked up and nightmare inducing.
Jumpscares have nothing on this shit.