4 Mike Flanagan Horror Movies to Watch AfterMidnight Mass

Midnight Mass , the late limited horror serial coming to Netflix fromThe Haunting of Hill HouseandThe Haunting of Bly Manor ’s Mike Flanagan , arrives tomorrow . It ’s truly gross timing for a pre - Halloween splurge . But once you ’ve devour Midnight Mass — star Hamish Linklater , Rahul Kohli , Annabeth Gish , and more — where else can you turn to get an extra Flanagan fix ? io9 has some ideas .

If you do n’t need to invest the time rewatching Hill House and Bly Manor ( or his Stephen King series , Gerald ’s Game ) , the filmmaker ’s feature - film list is also , unsurprisingly , heavy on revulsion storytelling that shares some familiar traits with his Netflix hits . Here are our four favorites .

Where can you watch Absentia (2010)?

I first sawFlanagan ’s feature article debut — which he save , edited , and direct — in 2011 when it was making the repugnance film fete rounds , and it stuck with me . When he started making much full-grown photographic film , I remembered his name and had an “ Ah yes , that ’s the guy who made that skin - grovel Absentia movie that gave me nightmares ” epiphany . The utter combo of everyday mount ( a suburban neighborhood with an admission burrow at the ending of the block ) and uncanny spot ( that burrow is not what it seems ) , Absentia also makes corking use of characters who feel like veridical hoi polloi : a weary woman ( Courtney Bell ) who ’s finally quick to move on from her long - lack married man , both de jure and emotionally , and her as weary sis ( Katie Parker ) , whose attack at staying sober are challenge when the supernatural make an unexpected appearance . Absentia is streaming on Shudder .

Where can you watch Oculus (2013)?

Movies about obsessed mirrors are n’t all that rare — Snow White got there first , but you could make a mini - fete with 1969 ’s Fear No Evil , 1974 ’s From Beyond the Grave , 1980 ’s The Boogeyman , and 1993 ’s Amityville : A New Generation , and this pic , based on a brusque Flanagan made in 2005 . The imply “ reflecting the wickedness within myself ” message these narrative lend themselves to can sometimes finger heavily - handed , and while Oculus is n’t quite on the tier of Flanagan ’s great industrial plant , it still crafts a deeply worrying story research themes that clearly charm the film maker , since he ’s returned to them multiple time . These let in pregnant sibling relationship , the overpowering temptation to return to a location where a Very speculative Thing has pass off ( even though you know you should n’t ) , and the melodic theme that a terrible class trauma can reverberate for years in alarming ways — especially when that trauma need something malevolently supernatural . The casting includes a pre - Guardians of the Galaxy , Charles William Post - Doctor Who Karen Gillen and Battlestar Galactica ’s Katee Sackhoff , as well as Annalise Basso ( who ’s also in Ouija : Origin of Evil ) and Kate Siegel ( who ’s been in almost everything that Flanagan , her mate since 2016 , has done since ) . Oculus is stream on Amazon Prime .

Where can you watch Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)?

Cluewill belike always reign supreme as the greatest picture establish on a circuit board secret plan , but Ouija : Origin of Evil is so entertaining it more than justifies its existence . No modest affair considering it’sthe prequel to2014 ’s Ouija , a flick that made us long forthe 1980s surplus of Witchboardand absolutely did not need any variety of follow - up . However , we ’re glad it cause one , because the ending result brought Flanagan ( who direct , edited , and co - wrote with Jeff Howard ) together with future Hill House stars Elizabeth Reaser , Lulu Wilson , and Henry Thomas in a 1960s - set tale of a widow woman with two daughters , one Ouija plank , and a menage home with a blaze of a drear secret buried in the cellar . Ouija board : Origin of Evil is streaming on HBO Max .

Where can you watch Doctor Sleep (2019)?

Much like Ouija — but for totally dissimilar reasons — nobody was really weep out for a continuation to The Shining . ButStephen Kingwrote one , and fortunately the inevitable sequel found its way into Flanagan ’s filmography , bringing us a film thatpays court to bothKing ’s original and sequel novel and Stanley Kubrick ’s much - loved ( by everyone except King , seemingly ) 1980 film . Doctor Sleep mightnot be as scaryas The Shining , but it ’s a visually dazzling display case for Flanagan , who somehow makes apprehension , despair , decay , and a game that involves a fortune of people going into their own head feel dynamic and exciting , not to observe lavish and gorgeous . He ’s patently find a very fruitful niche in the region of Netflix horror series ( after Midnight Mass , he ’s got another serial , The Midnight Club ) but finally — hopefully — he’ll takings to the heavy screen one of these Clarence Day . Doctor Sleep is streaming on Amazon Prime .

Midnight Mass begins stream on Netflix on Friday , September 24 .

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Kyliegh Curran in Doctor Sleep.