#this is like watching haunting of hill house for me

[marzipanandminutiae]

thoughts on Mike Flanagan?

Why does the man keep trying to adapt Gothic literature if he’s not going to actually tell the original story in question

Like I know most adaptations take liberties, but it feels like this guy always seems to miss key central themes of whatever he claims to be adapting, to the point where he really might as well just make an original TV show. And given how successful Midnight Mass was, it’s clear that his original shows can stand on their own and be well received!

So WHY does he keep DOING this?????

(he really cemented the loathing for me with the Haunting of Hill House. Like. It is one of my absolute favorite books, and now all of the tags are clogged with content for an original story wearing the character names and title like a serial killer skin mask.)

(It’s also the one that makes the least sense to me – it’s not in the public domain; he had to pay Shirley Jackson’s estate for the rights. why do that if you’re not going to even tell the same story? The book isn’t popular enough that you would get any particular clout with the general public from the title anymore, and people who would watch it because they’re fans of the book are going to immediately be disappointed that… Well, it is absolutely not the book!)

Anyway basically my thoughts on him are that I hope he gets a flat tire every single day of his life

[x-mensirens]

Something about seeing the Godzilla Sentinel’s green ray in literally the first episode just……………………………

[novelconcepts]

Drawgust day 28: Crain family studies from @flanaganfilm’s Haunting of Hill House

[misterradio]

"The series will reportedly set Wilde’s 1891 tale of the impossibly beautiful Dorian amidst the contemporary beauty industry and will recast the main character and artist Basil Hallway as siblings."

you have to be kidding me you can't do this to oscar wilde. and you can't do this to me

[adhdheather]

lets all watch dark shadows (1966-1971) together. its a gothic monster soap opera, extremely fun to watch, and all 1225 20 min episodes are on tubi. itll be such a good time

[cursemewithyourkiss]

Want to tear Mike Flanagan to pieces with my bare teeth for what he did to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

[oopsiedaisymae]

i do think there's something positive to be said about the fact that i'm starting to get interested in horror again

[ravenkings]

with all due respect, why does m*ke fl*nagan feel the need to butcher established gothic horror classics instead of just making his own original material

[katierosefun]

i love you ghost stories that are really just about the anger deep within ourselves i love you ghost stories that are about grief i love you ghost stories about how moving on is difficult i love you ghost stories about how sometimes being angry is the closest we get to feeling alive i love you ghost stories about how love is a powerful enough force to keep the dead walking in the land of the living i love you ghost stories about how the real horrors are the ones that we keep locked up in our heads and our hearts i love you ghost stories i love you ghost stories i love you ghost stories i love you ghost stories i love y

[blizwolfthewolf]

Me, watching episode 6 of Bly Manor after having already seen Midnight Mass and is extremely high: "I'm going to find Mike Flanagan and STRANGLE HIM WITH MY BARE FUCKING HANDS"

Me, sober, having just finished Bly ep. 8 and sobbing while hugging my wife: "I'm still gonna find Mike Flanagan and strangle him"

[spioderman]

thinking about how the haunting of hill house tv series rlly is kind of in conversation with the book. like the book is about the experience of feeling isolated and depressed and the way it overcomes your life and it contemplates the fantasy of running away and forgetting your problems while the show says gently yes, you are isolated, alone and afraid. you are wounded but you are not in an unfixable situation. you are loved whether you are alive or dead. you can change the future, and you can heal. there was love and there can be again.

[kxllerblond]

thinking about how much i hate my muse today. how he just does stupid shit he KNOWS is going to be troublesome or annoying but it's a project or a challenge and he is so desperate for that distraction and something to DO that he does shit anyway

[phantomqueen]

im like 3 episodes into the fall of the house of usher and its pretty alright. personally im into this reinterpretation of poe stories. it sucks u in with production value & salaciousness. the dialogue is corny tho and im not gonna lie sometimes i zone out during "dramatic" monologues and have to rewind it in case i missed something important. ofc i still have the rest of the show to go so maybe my opinion will change but so far. its alright. its a passable tv show

[anotherpapercut]

is there some reason why nobody will respect the fact that I just don't like horror movies? I have been forced to watch like a dozen horror movies now and I just do not like them. I have told all of my friends this repeatedly and they continue to try to make me watch them no matter what I fucking say. they're always trying to justify it with "well it's not REALLY a horror movie" then I google it and the description literally says horror

[grakkul]

I’ve been listening to like 7 different video essays at work each day and I feel insane, wowow cinema

I’m also too close to reading Star Wars fanfic for someone who has only seen like 2 movies on middle school field trips. This can’t be it, I can’t betray my bestest friend and Ben obi wan like that for an andor and a rouge one video essay to do me in.

I have not gotten sick of them at all and I fear I require new ones each coming day

I am becoming more powerful

[cisthoughtcrime]

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