By not limiting a list of the great Horror/Thrillers to theatrical features, you are recommended to experience a number of interesting TV Movies (Duel, Ghostwatch, The Night Stalker) and Mini-Series. This also starts our time with Mike Flanagan, who directed NINE projects that sit solidly in the Top 1000. Four of them are mini-series made for Netflix. My personal favorite – Midnight Mass – comes up a few weeks. The earliest, arguably the most successful because it briefly became a monocultural event, is this very loose adaptation of the Shirley Jackson story.
With 10 episodes of time, the show tackled addiction and mental illness inside a family drama that was itself inside a very creepy story that involved numerous hauntings and ghosts. In an interesting switch from typical mini-series format, the show builds towards a climactic middle section, before easing up to a satisfying conclusion. That middle section includes one of the most terrifying Episodes of television you will ever encounter (Ep. 5 “The Bent-Neck Lady”), and the superior craft of Ep. 6, “Two Storms”, which was filmed in very long takes with numerous instances of ghosts moving through the background while the house itself appeared to change geography a few times without an edit.
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