The Return (2006)
Nov 3, 2007Haunting
Ghost story in which Sarah Michelle Gellar receives a series of mysterious visions as she travels across Texas
Intrepid Pictures
The Hitcher (2007)
Mar 25, 2009Psycho Hitchhiker
Another disappointing remake of an 80s horror film, this misses the gripping suspense and everything that worked about the 1986 original and turns it into just another teen horror film
The Strangers (2008)
Aug 19, 2008Home Invasion and Brutality
A harrowing home assault film that highlighted the debut of Bryan Bertino, a new director of considerable promise. The surprise about the film is just how much influence it has had on other works subsequently
Doomsday (2008)
Nov 22, 2008Plague Ravaged Future Wasteland/Action
Immensely satisfying film from Neil Marshall set in a walled-off, post-pandemic Scotland where he seems to have set out to pay homage to sf/action films like Escape from New York and Mad Max 2
The Raven (2012)
May 11, 2012Edgar Allan Poe vs a Serial Killer
This has the great idea of pitting Edgar Allan Poe against a serial killer imitating his stories but instead produces a desultory murder mystery that has done only the most cursory reading about Poe and is ill-informed about the historical period
Oculus (2013)
Apr 11, 2014Evil Mirror
A couple of years ago, the hauntingly eerie Absentia made Mike Flanagan into a must-watch director; this is his follow-up – the story of an evil mirror that, while slightly the lesser of Absentia, conducts some undeniably effective games of reality and illusion
Before I Wake (2016)
Sep 30, 2016Kid Whose Dreams Come to Life
An overlooked Mike Flanagan film about a kid with the ability to bring his dreams to life, this reads like a cross between an A Nightmare on Elm Street copy and the Joe Dante Twilight Zone – The Movie episode
Hush (2016)
Jun 26, 2016Deaf Woman Stalked by a Killer
A Mike Flanagan film that keeps you in a state of seat-edge tension. The premise is a simple one – a deaf woman is terrorised by a killer waiting outside her house – but Flanagan delivers it with electrifying effect
The Bye Bye Man (2017)
Apr 10, 2017Boogeyman
Film based on an urban legend film about a boogeyman that kills everybody that speaks its name. Director Stacy Title creates one or two haunting and unusual scenes but in every other aspect this emerges as exceedingly generic
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Feb 1, 2020The Shining Sequel
Mike Flanagan, one of the most exciting genre names in recent years, takes on Stephen King's book sequel to The Shining, managing the daunting balancing act of both adapting the book and turning it into a sequel to the Stanley Kubrick film
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
Oct 24, 2020Haunted House
Mike Flanagan follows up the hit of The Haunting of Hill House with a mini-series that adapts another classic work The Turn of the Screw out into a similar kind of cross-generational ghost story. The results are extraordinary
Midnight Mass (2021)
Oct 9, 2021Vampires and Religion
Mike Flanagan returns with his best work to date. Effectively a Catholic version of Salem’s Lot, this comes with some flat out great pieces of writing
The Midnight Club (2022)
Oct 21, 2022Teenagers Tell Horror Stories
Mike Flanagan horror mini-series adapted from Christopher Pike's book, this is set around a group of patients in a hospice who form a group to tell each other horror stories
The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
Nov 18, 2023Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Mike Flanagan mini-series that expands on the story to incorporate a host of other Poe stories. More like another of Mike Flanagan’s cross-generational ghost stories by way of tv’s Succession with a lot of Poe-esque margin notes
The Life of Chuck (2024)
Aug 8, 2025Stephen King Adaptation
A Mike Flanagan adaptation of a Stephen King story, this received a great deal of acclaim, but comes with a very peculiar story structure that opens out into a series of unfolding revelations
Shelby Oaks (2024)
Dec 12, 2025Missing Girl Investigation
YouTube film reviewer Chris Stuckmann makes a directorial debut with this film about the investigation into a mysterious disappearance where he makes a work that is well above the often familiar material it deals with