After “The Fall of the House of Usher”, discover a film also written and directed by Mike Flanagan, and obviously, it’s horror!
If you devoured the miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix and already know the other shows created by Mike Flanagan such as Bly Manor or Hill House, discover his lesser-known feature film, Jessie, released in 2017 and also available on the platform.
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Adapted from Stephen King, Jessie tells the fantasy of a couple who goes wrong. During a sex game in which she is tied to the bed, Jessie suddenly finds herself alone when her husband Gerald has a heart attack and falls at her feet. She will try to free herself as quickly as possible because then she begins to have strange visions…
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Jessie (Gerald’s Game) marks Mike Flanagan’s first collaboration with the Netflix platform. The feature film is an “Original” of the platform, already a horror film, and with a troupe of actors that we find in most of the author’s creations, notably The Fall of the House of Usher.
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Henry Thomas and Kate Siegel
The heroine is played by Carla Gugino (Verna in Usher) and her husband by Bruce Greenwood (the Usher patriarch in the series). Other actors make an appearance like Carel Struycken (Doctor Sleep), Henry Thomas (Hill House, Usher) or Kate Siegel (Camille in Usher).
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Carla Gugino with Bruce Greenwood
The particularity of Jessie is that it explores, through the physical and psychological ordeal suffered by its protagonist, a deeper trauma that she buried in order to survive it. It is this revelation and its consequences which will little by little make Jessie a little more than a survival film like so many.
And if today Mike Flanagan no longer wants to work with Netflix, if the Jessie experience satisfies you, the platform also welcomes Ouija, the origins, Doctor Sleep or even Don’t fall asleep, all directed by Mike Flanagan.