"If Flanagan directed Misery, the author would be an asshole and the book she forces him to write would be the best work of his life." I don't know what to tell you, but have you READ the book? Because, uh, that's all true.

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"Flanagan can't adapt Stephen King." Flanagan: *does a great adaptation of Gerald's Game. Does a great adaptation of The Life of Chuck. Does a great adaptation of Doctor Sleep. Does a great adaptation of Carrie. Stephen King: "It was directed by Mike Flanagan, and he is the best adapter of my work."

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"Flanagan doesn't kill off enough people." How many people died in Shirley Jackon's Haunting of Hill House? How many people died in The Turn of the Screw?

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"Flanagan doesn't write tragedies. He doesn't kill off people. He writes happy endings." Ok, but... Oculus. Ouija: Origin of Evil. Midnight Mass. The movie version of Doctor Sleep.

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Yet another essay crying about how Mike Flanagan has ruined horror. God, I'm tired of these bad takes and the commenters who respond, "I've never watched one and now I never will." There are so many great films I nearly missed because I heard someone's bad opinion and almost listened to it.

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