Mike Flanagan

Mike Flanagan

Nascimento : 1978-05-20, Salem, Massachusetts, United States

História

Mike Flanagan (born May 20, 1978) is an American filmmaker and partner in Intrepid Pictures. Flanagan's work has attracted the praise of critics for his directing, focus on characters and themes rarely depicted in horror, and lack of reliance on jump scares; Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino and William Friedkin, among others, have praised him. Flanagan is best known for his horror films, all of which he directed, wrote, and edited, including Absentia (2011), Oculus (2013), Hush, Before I Wake, Ouija: Origin of Evil (all 2016), Gerald's Game (2017), and Doctor Sleep (2019). He is also known for having created, produced and served as showrunner on the Netflix supernatural horror anthology series The Haunting which consists of The Haunting of Hill House (2018), a season based on Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), a season based on the horror novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, both of which he has directed, written and edited episodes of. Flanagan also created and directed the Netflix horror mini-series Midnight Mass (2021), as well as the upcoming series The Midnight Club. Flanagan is married to actress Kate Siegel, who has been featured in most of his works since Oculus; they also wrote the screenplay of Hush together.

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Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan
Mike Flanagan

Filmes

Traición Santa
Executive Producer
Doutor Sono
Editor
Ainda marcado pelo trauma que sofreu quando criança no Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance enfrenta os fantasmas do passado quando conhece Abra, uma adolescente corajosa que precisa desesperadamente de sua ajuda – e que possui uma poderosa capacidade extra-sensorial chamada "brilho".
Doutor Sono
Screenplay
Ainda marcado pelo trauma que sofreu quando criança no Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance enfrenta os fantasmas do passado quando conhece Abra, uma adolescente corajosa que precisa desesperadamente de sua ajuda – e que possui uma poderosa capacidade extra-sensorial chamada "brilho".
Doutor Sono
Director
Ainda marcado pelo trauma que sofreu quando criança no Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance enfrenta os fantasmas do passado quando conhece Abra, uma adolescente corajosa que precisa desesperadamente de sua ajuda – e que possui uma poderosa capacidade extra-sensorial chamada "brilho".
Jogo Perigoso
Editor
Jessie (Carla Gugino) e o marido Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) viajam para uma casa de campo para aproveitar um momento romântico, que envolve um jogo, a princípio, inofensivo. Até que ela é algemada na cama e de repente tudo se transforma numa luta angustiante pela sobrevivência.
Jogo Perigoso
Screenplay
Jessie (Carla Gugino) e o marido Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) viajam para uma casa de campo para aproveitar um momento romântico, que envolve um jogo, a princípio, inofensivo. Até que ela é algemada na cama e de repente tudo se transforma numa luta angustiante pela sobrevivência.
Jogo Perigoso
Director
Jessie (Carla Gugino) e o marido Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) viajam para uma casa de campo para aproveitar um momento romântico, que envolve um jogo, a princípio, inofensivo. Até que ela é algemada na cama e de repente tudo se transforma numa luta angustiante pela sobrevivência.
Dobaara: See Your Evil
Executive Producer
An official adaptation of the cult horror film Oculus. The film revolves around a haunted mirror. It shows the emotional journey of siblings Natasha Merchant played by Huma Qureshi and Kabeer Merchant played by Saqib Saleem dealing with the death of their parents.
Dobaara: See Your Evil
Original Story
An official adaptation of the cult horror film Oculus. The film revolves around a haunted mirror. It shows the emotional journey of siblings Natasha Merchant played by Huma Qureshi and Kabeer Merchant played by Saqib Saleem dealing with the death of their parents.
Ouija: Origem do Mal
Editor
Doris é uma garotinha solitária e pouco popular na escola. Sua mãe é especialista em aplicar golpes em clientes, fingindo se comunicar com espíritos. Mas quando Doris usa um tabuleiro de Ouija para se comunicar com o falecido pai, acaba liberando uma série de seres malignos que se apoderam de seu corpo e ameaçam todos ao redor.
Ouija: Origem do Mal
Writer
Doris é uma garotinha solitária e pouco popular na escola. Sua mãe é especialista em aplicar golpes em clientes, fingindo se comunicar com espíritos. Mas quando Doris usa um tabuleiro de Ouija para se comunicar com o falecido pai, acaba liberando uma série de seres malignos que se apoderam de seu corpo e ameaçam todos ao redor.
Ouija: Origem do Mal
Director
Doris é uma garotinha solitária e pouco popular na escola. Sua mãe é especialista em aplicar golpes em clientes, fingindo se comunicar com espíritos. Mas quando Doris usa um tabuleiro de Ouija para se comunicar com o falecido pai, acaba liberando uma série de seres malignos que se apoderam de seu corpo e ameaçam todos ao redor.
O Sono da Morte
Editor
Logo após perder o filho pequeno, o casal Jessie e Mark aceita adotar Cody, um garoto da mesma idade. O filho adotivo se adapta bem à nova família, mas ele tem um problema: os seus sonhos se tornam realidade, e os pesadelos, especialmente, podem ser mortais. Quando Jessie e Mark investigam o passado do garoto, descobrem histórias sinistras.
O Sono da Morte
Writer
Logo após perder o filho pequeno, o casal Jessie e Mark aceita adotar Cody, um garoto da mesma idade. O filho adotivo se adapta bem à nova família, mas ele tem um problema: os seus sonhos se tornam realidade, e os pesadelos, especialmente, podem ser mortais. Quando Jessie e Mark investigam o passado do garoto, descobrem histórias sinistras.
O Sono da Morte
Director
Logo após perder o filho pequeno, o casal Jessie e Mark aceita adotar Cody, um garoto da mesma idade. O filho adotivo se adapta bem à nova família, mas ele tem um problema: os seus sonhos se tornam realidade, e os pesadelos, especialmente, podem ser mortais. Quando Jessie e Mark investigam o passado do garoto, descobrem histórias sinistras.
Hush: A Morte Ouve
Editor
Depois de perder sua audição quando adolescente, Maddie Young viveu uma vida de isolamento totalmente recuada em seu mundo silencioso. Porém, quando o rosto mascarado de um assassino psicótico aparece na janela de sua casa ela deve ultrapassar seus limites físicos e psicológicos para poder sobreviver uma noite.
Hush: A Morte Ouve
Writer
Depois de perder sua audição quando adolescente, Maddie Young viveu uma vida de isolamento totalmente recuada em seu mundo silencioso. Porém, quando o rosto mascarado de um assassino psicótico aparece na janela de sua casa ela deve ultrapassar seus limites físicos e psicológicos para poder sobreviver uma noite.
Hush: A Morte Ouve
Director
Depois de perder sua audição quando adolescente, Maddie Young viveu uma vida de isolamento totalmente recuada em seu mundo silencioso. Porém, quando o rosto mascarado de um assassino psicótico aparece na janela de sua casa ela deve ultrapassar seus limites físicos e psicológicos para poder sobreviver uma noite.
Absentia: A Retrospective
Self
Documentary film on the making of Mike Flanagan's Absentia. Interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes.
Absentia: A Retrospective
Editor
Documentary film on the making of Mike Flanagan's Absentia. Interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes.
Oculus: O Espelho do Demónio
Editor
Tim e Kaylie são dois irmãos, traumatizados pela morte dos pais. Apesar de os tribunais terem ditado um veredicto diferente, Kaylie atribui a culpa a um espelho antigo, com poderes sobrenaturais, que ditou mortes violentas ou a loucura a todos os seus anteriores donos. Cercados por fenómenos paranormais, os dois irmãos tentarão provar que o objecto é o verdadeiro responsável pela morte dos seus pais.
Oculus: O Espelho do Demónio
Screenplay
Tim e Kaylie são dois irmãos, traumatizados pela morte dos pais. Apesar de os tribunais terem ditado um veredicto diferente, Kaylie atribui a culpa a um espelho antigo, com poderes sobrenaturais, que ditou mortes violentas ou a loucura a todos os seus anteriores donos. Cercados por fenómenos paranormais, os dois irmãos tentarão provar que o objecto é o verdadeiro responsável pela morte dos seus pais.
Oculus: O Espelho do Demónio
Director
Tim e Kaylie são dois irmãos, traumatizados pela morte dos pais. Apesar de os tribunais terem ditado um veredicto diferente, Kaylie atribui a culpa a um espelho antigo, com poderes sobrenaturais, que ditou mortes violentas ou a loucura a todos os seus anteriores donos. Cercados por fenómenos paranormais, os dois irmãos tentarão provar que o objecto é o verdadeiro responsável pela morte dos seus pais.
Absentia
Editor
O marido de Tricia está desaparecido há sete anos, mas ela reluta em declará-lo morto. Sua irmã mais nova Callie passa a morar com ela para ajudá-la a superar. Mas um túnel misterioso, próximo da casa, e estranhos acontecimentos sugerem que o desaparecimento teve causas sobrenaturais e o marido dela pode estar sofrendo um destino muito pior do que a morte.
Absentia
Producer
O marido de Tricia está desaparecido há sete anos, mas ela reluta em declará-lo morto. Sua irmã mais nova Callie passa a morar com ela para ajudá-la a superar. Mas um túnel misterioso, próximo da casa, e estranhos acontecimentos sugerem que o desaparecimento teve causas sobrenaturais e o marido dela pode estar sofrendo um destino muito pior do que a morte.
Absentia
Writer
O marido de Tricia está desaparecido há sete anos, mas ela reluta em declará-lo morto. Sua irmã mais nova Callie passa a morar com ela para ajudá-la a superar. Mas um túnel misterioso, próximo da casa, e estranhos acontecimentos sugerem que o desaparecimento teve causas sobrenaturais e o marido dela pode estar sofrendo um destino muito pior do que a morte.
Absentia
Director
O marido de Tricia está desaparecido há sete anos, mas ela reluta em declará-lo morto. Sua irmã mais nova Callie passa a morar com ela para ajudá-la a superar. Mas um túnel misterioso, próximo da casa, e estranhos acontecimentos sugerem que o desaparecimento teve causas sobrenaturais e o marido dela pode estar sofrendo um destino muito pior do que a morte.
Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan
Director of Photography
A man sets out to prove an antique mirror is haunted.
Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan
Ghoul 2
A man sets out to prove an antique mirror is haunted.
Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan
Writer
A man sets out to prove an antique mirror is haunted.
Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan
Producer
A man sets out to prove an antique mirror is haunted.
Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan
Editor
A man sets out to prove an antique mirror is haunted.
Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan
Director
A man sets out to prove an antique mirror is haunted.
Chainsaw Sally
Director of Photography
Sally is a young woman living two lives: a calmly librarian by day, and a brutal serial killer by night where she randomly targets any man or woman whom even slightly upsets her. Sally lives with her reclusive, transvestite younger brother Rudy whom assists her with the killings. Both Sally and Ruby were traumatized as children when both of them witnessed three lunatics murder their mother and father before they, with 'Daddy's' help, killed the three murderous psychos.
Ghosts of Hamilton Street
Editor
In this award-winning student film, a troubled writer questions his sanity as people in his life vanish without a trace - and it seems he's the only one who realizes it. Each disappearance catapults him into a version of the world in which that person never existed at all, and once he realizes the specific order to this phenomenon, he must try to save the people he loves from forces he may never understand.
Ghosts of Hamilton Street
Writer
In this award-winning student film, a troubled writer questions his sanity as people in his life vanish without a trace - and it seems he's the only one who realizes it. Each disappearance catapults him into a version of the world in which that person never existed at all, and once he realizes the specific order to this phenomenon, he must try to save the people he loves from forces he may never understand.
Ghosts of Hamilton Street
Director
In this award-winning student film, a troubled writer questions his sanity as people in his life vanish without a trace - and it seems he's the only one who realizes it. Each disappearance catapults him into a version of the world in which that person never existed at all, and once he realizes the specific order to this phenomenon, he must try to save the people he loves from forces he may never understand.
Still Life
Music
Details the trials and tribulations of four student photographers who collaborate on one final project before graduation. Caught sharing photos in their portfolios, David, Karma, Danny, and Kevin are given a chance to save their final grade before graduation. Danny returns home that night to find his fiancé Stephanie in bed with another man. Unnoticed and enraged, he photographs them in the act, and shares the picture with the others. Inspired by the raw nature of the photograph, the four friends agree to use it as the thesis for their new portfolio... capturing subjects at their most vulnerable. Soon, their exploitative behavior begins to tear apart their lives and relationships, and they must come to terms with the harsh truths of their lives through the lens of a camera.
Still Life
Producer
Details the trials and tribulations of four student photographers who collaborate on one final project before graduation. Caught sharing photos in their portfolios, David, Karma, Danny, and Kevin are given a chance to save their final grade before graduation. Danny returns home that night to find his fiancé Stephanie in bed with another man. Unnoticed and enraged, he photographs them in the act, and shares the picture with the others. Inspired by the raw nature of the photograph, the four friends agree to use it as the thesis for their new portfolio... capturing subjects at their most vulnerable. Soon, their exploitative behavior begins to tear apart their lives and relationships, and they must come to terms with the harsh truths of their lives through the lens of a camera.
Still Life
Editor
Details the trials and tribulations of four student photographers who collaborate on one final project before graduation. Caught sharing photos in their portfolios, David, Karma, Danny, and Kevin are given a chance to save their final grade before graduation. Danny returns home that night to find his fiancé Stephanie in bed with another man. Unnoticed and enraged, he photographs them in the act, and shares the picture with the others. Inspired by the raw nature of the photograph, the four friends agree to use it as the thesis for their new portfolio... capturing subjects at their most vulnerable. Soon, their exploitative behavior begins to tear apart their lives and relationships, and they must come to terms with the harsh truths of their lives through the lens of a camera.
Still Life
Writer
Details the trials and tribulations of four student photographers who collaborate on one final project before graduation. Caught sharing photos in their portfolios, David, Karma, Danny, and Kevin are given a chance to save their final grade before graduation. Danny returns home that night to find his fiancé Stephanie in bed with another man. Unnoticed and enraged, he photographs them in the act, and shares the picture with the others. Inspired by the raw nature of the photograph, the four friends agree to use it as the thesis for their new portfolio... capturing subjects at their most vulnerable. Soon, their exploitative behavior begins to tear apart their lives and relationships, and they must come to terms with the harsh truths of their lives through the lens of a camera.
Still Life
Director
Details the trials and tribulations of four student photographers who collaborate on one final project before graduation. Caught sharing photos in their portfolios, David, Karma, Danny, and Kevin are given a chance to save their final grade before graduation. Danny returns home that night to find his fiancé Stephanie in bed with another man. Unnoticed and enraged, he photographs them in the act, and shares the picture with the others. Inspired by the raw nature of the photograph, the four friends agree to use it as the thesis for their new portfolio... capturing subjects at their most vulnerable. Soon, their exploitative behavior begins to tear apart their lives and relationships, and they must come to terms with the harsh truths of their lives through the lens of a camera.
Makebelieve
Music
Coming of age drama focusing on the loves, lives, and infidelities of four college friends, all while working in a production of Romeo and Juliet.
Makebelieve
Editor
Coming of age drama focusing on the loves, lives, and infidelities of four college friends, all while working in a production of Romeo and Juliet.
Makebelieve
Writer
Coming of age drama focusing on the loves, lives, and infidelities of four college friends, all while working in a production of Romeo and Juliet.
Makebelieve
Director
Coming of age drama focusing on the loves, lives, and infidelities of four college friends, all while working in a production of Romeo and Juliet.
The Midnight Club
Director
A group of eight close terminally ill young adults resides in the Brightcliffe Home hospice outside of Seattle run by an enigmatic doctor. They meet at midnight every night to tell each other scary stories. They have a pact that the first one to succumb to their disease is responsible for communicating with the others from beyond the grave.
The Season of Passage
Producer
Dr. Lauren Wagner is the chief medical officer on the first American mission to Mars. The expedition is a dream come true for her, the fruit of many years of struggle and sacrifice. But this is not mankind's first visit to the red planet: the Russians went ten years ago... and didn't come back. Even more disturbing, the sole orbiting cosmonaut, Carl Bensk – who never even landed on the planet – was also never heard from again. Carl and his companions are presumed dead, but what killed them? Lauren is about to find out...
The Season of Passage
Screenplay
Dr. Lauren Wagner is the chief medical officer on the first American mission to Mars. The expedition is a dream come true for her, the fruit of many years of struggle and sacrifice. But this is not mankind's first visit to the red planet: the Russians went ten years ago... and didn't come back. Even more disturbing, the sole orbiting cosmonaut, Carl Bensk – who never even landed on the planet – was also never heard from again. Carl and his companions are presumed dead, but what killed them? Lauren is about to find out...
The Season of Passage
Director
Dr. Lauren Wagner is the chief medical officer on the first American mission to Mars. The expedition is a dream come true for her, the fruit of many years of struggle and sacrifice. But this is not mankind's first visit to the red planet: the Russians went ten years ago... and didn't come back. Even more disturbing, the sole orbiting cosmonaut, Carl Bensk – who never even landed on the planet – was also never heard from again. Carl and his companions are presumed dead, but what killed them? Lauren is about to find out...
Revival
Screenplay
Reverend Charles Jacobs, a minister in Harlow, Maine, who shares a secret obsession with boy Jamie Morton, a draw so powerful, it has profound consequences five decades after the shattering tragedy that turned the preacher against God, and long after his final, scathing sermon. Jamie grows to become a nomadic rock guitarist hooked on heroin, and meets Charles Jacobs again, and their bond becomes a pact beyond the Devil’s devising.
Revival
Producer
Reverend Charles Jacobs, a minister in Harlow, Maine, who shares a secret obsession with boy Jamie Morton, a draw so powerful, it has profound consequences five decades after the shattering tragedy that turned the preacher against God, and long after his final, scathing sermon. Jamie grows to become a nomadic rock guitarist hooked on heroin, and meets Charles Jacobs again, and their bond becomes a pact beyond the Devil’s devising.
Snapshot 1988
Screenplay
A teenager looks after an elderly lady who is losing her memories not to dementia, but to a memory thief called The Phoenician.
Inherit the Earth
Screenplay
A servant protector robot is tasked to protect a young girl.
Peekers
Screenplay
When citizens in a small town start to go missing, a police officer faces off against a mysterious gang of grinning weirdos to find her son and keep him safe.