A biography for Mike Flanaganhasn’t been written yet.
“Thanks to 'It,' you're going to see the studios take a lot more chances on a very specific vision. An R-rated horror film about children being eaten by a monster that lives in a sewer is not normally something that a studio would throw their weight behind. But we've seen the success of it, which props everyone up.”
“For me, 'The Haunting of Hill House' is a series about life after a haunting, what happens after the credits roll in most horror films.”
“When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor.”
“I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and grief as a child.”
“I'm sure many more people saw 'Hush' in the first weekend it was on Netflix than saw 'Oculus' in theatres.”
“Depending on how 'Doctor Sleep' does, we'll see what movie opportunities there will be.”
“I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have.”
“I think in a lot of ways, 'The Shining' is about alcoholism and 'Doctor Sleep' is actually about recovery. They go together pretty well that way.”
“Gerald's Game' had such an impact on me when I read the book in college that I think I've actually, consciously or unconsciously, been incorporating elements of that story into my work ever since.”
“I'm a Stephen King fanatic.”
“Midnight Mass' is kind of my baby; I've been working on that for six years. I started writing it while 'Oculus' was in preproduction, and it's a very personal, scary little story.”
“Well when I hear 'slasher' I think about the 80s.”
“I hate jump scares. I really hate them. I think there's nothing special about being able to startle someone - that's an involuntary reflex, and it makes people laugh.”
“A movie studio has to answer to a marketing department, and to shareholders, to ensure the broadest audience possible for its product; it tends to err on the side of caution as a result.”
“I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena we don't understand just yet.”
“What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore.”
“With 'Gerald's Game' in particular, we didn't have enough money or time and it was really hard.”
“I did not growing up watching a lot of horror. I wasn't allowed a lot of it and I was a real chicken.”
“We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.”
“With digital technology there's a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image - which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren't careful.”