[ SECRET POST #5776 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5776 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

10. https://i.imgur.com/RXAOhZh.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Well if you want to deny yourself some of the greatest modern horror, you stick to your guns OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe Midnight Mass is the place to start. It's not an adaptation of anything and has some very original turns.

[meadowphoenix]

So, I don't think you'll like Flanagan's stuff if you're actually attached to the works they're "adapted" or inspired from. He doesn't adapt straight (although I haven't watched or read Gerald's Game so I can't speak to that in particular, and Midnight Mass is him adapting himself lmao). But if you want something with the same vibes but, frankly, different but also interesting themes, he's actually good to try OP. Not because it's something you already know, but because it's not.

Like I think a lot of people were sorta disappointed in Hill House because it has zero of Jackson's themes about women imo, but the family aspect Flanagan imputed was very compelling to me. But it's not the Haunting of Hill House as jackson wrote it at all and so if you're expecting that....well yeah you're not going to like it and your friends should really be warning you.

[sparklywalls]

They're not really adaptions, more loosely themed with callbacks to the source material. But you do you anon, it's annoying when people almost try to force you to watch something you have made clear you have no interest in watching.

Personally I loved Hill House and found Bly distinctly "ok" - I'd say Bly was closer to an adaption of those two because it kept more obvious aspects such as the two children being possessed by the ghosts. Still changes a lot and references/adapts a lot of James's other works in a couple of episodes, so would probably annoy you even more!

Midnight Mass is an original work and very good but it's very slow burn with a lot of monologuing (which I struggled with in a couple of places, people are taking *forever* to say anything.) Also it does still kinda borrow from the typical themes you find in horror works that reference vampires and/or religion.

[(Anonymous)]

You can try, it's a solid fun. Midnight Mass is too talky, but it's heartbreaking and hilarious at the same time.
But I feel you, when someone is being too much with their recommendations I tend to be contrary.

[(Anonymous)]

I just can't get through most of his stuff. I hate that any discussion of modern horror means people recommend him to me when I HATED his Hill House, when I could not slog through Midnight Mass (and I TRIED)... I am actually enjoying Midnight Club, I wouldn't guess it was the same guy, but I'm a desperately hungry horror hound, and I know too many people who don't normally do horror but loved his stuff when they wanted something to watch around Halloween, and I just can't stand any of his adult horror. I REALLY don't want his popularity to have too much influence on what gets produced, it's just... the stuff I could appreciate is so overshadowed by the longwinded and dull or the cheap and unnecessary. I hate it.

[(Anonymous)]

I am actually enjoying Midnight Club, I wouldn't guess it was the same guy

It's funny you say that, because to me it seems like it's so obviously his style that it's almost hilarious at times

[(Anonymous)]

I find him kind of overrated tbh.

[rosehiptea]

I seem to have watched three of his shows without remembering what his name is.

If you don't want to watch his stuff people should leave you alone about it. You don't have to have a good reason (though that sounds like a valid reason to me anyway.)

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Hill House (and I do like the book, but the adaptation is so different that I don't really compare them) but haven't liked the other two enough to finish them.

[(Anonymous)]

I ultimately found Hill House really disappointing, so I didn't even bother with Bly, and decided to skip Midnight Mass too after getting spoiled for it.

Ironically, I think Oculus is an underrated horror gem, despite being one of his lower rated endeavors (and not based on anything except his own pre-existing short film).