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Warning : Spoilers ahead forThe Haunting of Hill HouseandThe Haunting of Bly Manor!Since the early 2000s , author , manager and editorMike Flanaganhas been terrifying audience with his horror movies and television set show and is also a purveyor ofgreat horror movies himself . He made his name with title such as the low - budget and surprise success , Absentiafrom 2011 , the well - receivedOculusfrom 2013 , and more lately , TV projection such as 2018’sThe Haunting of Hill HouseandThe Midnight Clubfrom 2022 .
His work has been synonymous with creating unbearing latent hostility , and character - drive narrative , plus he has also institute a fresh tailspin on horror tropes such as the often misapply leap scare . in the end , however , his work has produce some of the shivery moments in repugnance film , and video appearance of all time .
15Dani Gets Trapped In A Closet
The Haunting Of Bly Manor:Episode 1 - “The Great Good Place”
When first examine this panorama , it ’s strong to interpret the motif behind why Miles and Flora snare poor Dani in the water closet with the ghost of her ex - boyfriend . It ’s not until you realize that they had dear intentions all along that you start to see sense in what appear to be a hugely brutal act at first .
The claustrophobia portray in the scenery is a bully way to foreshadow other events to derive in the serial .
There had been one or twojump scaresthat foreshadowed this moment , butDani ’s bloodline - curdle screams , as she ’s left alone with her drained ex - young man staring at her , truly sends a frisson down the acantha . Plus , the claustrophobia depicted in the scene is a bang-up mode to forecast other events to come in the series .
14Doris Is Possessed
Ouija: Origin Of Evil (2016)
The Ouija boardhas been atrope of the horror genreever since it was mentioned in the 1973 horror classic , The Exorcist . The fact that Mike Flanagan managed to call down up such smashing scares from it in his 2016 repulsion prequel , Ouija : Origin of Evilis astonishing . When two young girls , Lina and Doris , employ the Ouija panel to contact their dead father , what they encounter or else is a spirit with far more sinister motif . The instant where Doris ' mouthpiece is contort beyond identification by Doug Jones ' terrific fiend are truly distressful .
13Dan Returns To The Overlook
Doctor Sleep (2019)
aim the follow - up to the all - sentence classic 1980 horror movieThe Shiningwith its iconic endingand terrific direction , was always drop dead to be a sturdy ask , but Flanagan just about do to conform Stephen King ’s 2013 sequel novel to good effect . One of the most telling , and terrifying , sequences comes when Ewan McGregor ’s Dan Torrence return to The Overlook Hotel for the first clock time .
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Not only can the audience smell out his apprehension about returning to the fit of his childhood hurt , butthe tensity is cranked up to 11 when the Overlook ’s many spirits overmaster him .
12The Tall Man Terrorizes Luke
The Haunting Of Hill House: Episode 4 - “The Twin Thing”
One of the most bleak and terrifying aspects ofThe Haunting of Hill House , is that everyone has their own ghost . While that may not initially seem like a bad matter , poor little Luke Crain , whose ghostly companion , The Tall Man , seems to have some major issues with him . The use of firing to produce foreboding shadow , plus the eery sound innovation perfectly captures Luke ’s little terror as he hides under his bed , looking on in threat as he float past him . Watching Luke cower in fearas he hear his destiny in front of him is improbably unnerving .
11Removal Of The Mask
Hush (2016)
Home encroachment thriller have become a staple in the horror genre , andMike Flanagan’sHushmanages to be a tense and disturbing entryin its own right . While it does boast some decent killing , most of the terror come from the ostensibly unassumingnature of the killer ’s mask , first glimpsed in a serial of well - crafted and latent hostility - building reflection . This becomes almost unbearably tense as the grampus finally take off his mask to expose his identity to Maddie , meaning that only one of them will survive the night . The indifferent girls ' plea to be spar just add to the repulsion .
10Jessie Escapes The Handcuffs
Gerald’s Game (2017)
Stephen King is a schoolmaster of the revulsion genre , there ’s no uncertainty about that . However , his adaptations have not always worked so well on the big screen , which made Flanagan ’s decision to make the apparently unfilmableGerald’s’Game , which is set in just one elbow room , something of a gamble . One disturbing sequence from the Koran is Jessie Burlingame ’s " Delaware - gloving " , where she escapes her handcuffs by cutting a ' Y ' shape on her wrist and script to peel her tegument off , and free the handlock . It ’s as yucky as it sounds , but Flanagan nailed the setting , and a shocking plait closing .
9Peter Gets Dragged Into The Lake
The Haunting Of Bly Manor: Episode 5 - “The Altar Of The Dead”
Peter Quint is one of the more challenging , and on the face of it most powerful , case inThe Haunting of Bly Manor . When he ’s drop behind to a lake and drowned with apparent ease by a more powerful military group , it becomes one of the most scandalous sequences in the serial publication . Peter ’s role had been inaugurate in a fearful , acute passing in the generator cloth , The Turn of the Screw , so when the ghost of Viola Willoughby , The Lady in the Lake , drag him to his weak demise , it ’s a shocking and polar moment in the series .
8Award-Winning Jump Scares
The Midnight Club: Episode 1 - “The Final Chapter” (2022)
Jump scares can often be the worst way in which a horror movie elicits revere from its audience , unless you do them the right manner , such as the underwater head reveal from Spielberg ’s 1975 classicJaws . Even Mike Flanagan hate start scares , so when he wangle to violate a Guinness World Record for most consecutive jump scare in 2022 , he must have been pleasantly surprised .
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The sequence is improbably well craft and while leap scares can traditionally be see as a gimmick , Flanagan manages to make them unbearably tense , over and over , again .
7Death Of A Sister
Oculus (2013)
Oculuswas one of the first proper revulsion movies thathelped to actuate Flanagan into the mainstream world of revulsion , and deservedly so . His Lovecraftian story of two siblings , Tim and Kaylie , who attempt to ravel the whodunit of their parent ’s murder , is haunting , and often very disturbing .
The minute when Tim activates a switch to destruct the mirror , and inadvertently vote down his sister , is devastating .
The siblings essay to document the powers of a mirror that tug their parents to their deaths when they were just Thomas Kid , but in doing so , they unwittingly become part of its doomed being . The moment when Tim activate a switch to put down the mirror , and unwittingly kill his sister , is devastating .
6Hannah’s Death is Revealed
Episode 5 of the excellentThe Haunting of Bly Manorseries , allow a major revelation about one of its main characters , Hannah Grose , that neatly unveils something that had been alluded to throughout the series;that Hannah was in fact a ghost . The clues to her expiry were there for all to see ; the way she itch her neck opening , the gap in walls she saw , and how she would often space out , all touch to the fact that she was dead . The moment this is uncover , as she looks down the well at her dead body , is incredibly distressing .
