Moderated by author and critic Michael Gingold
Join us for a special artist talk with gifted US filmmaker Mike Flanagan, recipient of Fantasia’s 2024 Cheval Noir career award, which will be presented at the start of the show. A writer, director and editor who creates with uncommonly haunting emotional resonance, Flanagan has moved genre mountains since emerging on the scene with his ingenious 2011 feature debut ABSENTIA (a Canadian Premiere at Fantasia that year). From features like OCULUS (2013), HUSH (2016), BEFORE I WAKE (2016), OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL (2016), GERALD’S GAME (2017), DOCTOR SLEEP (2019) and the forthcoming LIFE OF CHUCK (2024) to miraculously profound Netflix miniseries events THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (2018), THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR (2020), MIDNIGHT MASS (2021), THE MIDNIGHT CLUB (2022) and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023), Flanagan has already amassed several lifetimes worth of wholly individualistic creation. And he’s not even 50. You won’t want to miss this career-spanning conversation with a modern master of horror.
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